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[Xenxe]

Is there a way to tell which way invaders come from on any given map?

I dont want to build my fortress entrance only to find they come from behind

so is there a way to tell or do they just come from everywhere

[Tarran]

They come from anywhere. Luckily, as far as I know, they can't come from Caverns.

[existent]

Well, there are a couple options. First off, make your fortress entrance only accessible from the front.

Secondly, you could construct walls all the way around the map, leaving only a single gap where they can enter.

Thirdly, get creative! There's tons of ways to deal with invaders, my personal favourite is building a trap on every single surface tile.

[Bronzebeard]

Even if the invaders came from an anticipated direction, they automatically write the quickest paths to infiltrate your fortress upon spawning--more specifically to your meeting area--so, at any rate, you'll want your fortress impenetrable by all but one, preferably small, entrance, such as an opening in a line of walls equipped with a raisable bridge connected to a lever with mechanisms. This is made easier if you dig your fortress in and along a cliff or mountainside, so you'll only have to build walls against the exposed half rather than your entire fortress perimeter (and, of course, remove all cliff ramps within your walls, so invaders couldn't simply drop in despite them).

[existent]

they automatically write the quickest paths to infiltrate your fortress upon spawning--more specifically to your meeting area--

How sure are you of this? Could prove interesting...

[Bronzebeard]

they automatically write the quickest paths to infiltrate your fortress upon spawning--more specifically to your meeting area--

How sure are you of this? Could prove interesting...

Unless it underwent some changing in the latter versions, I'm pretty sure. Much like migrants, they have to have some arbitrary idea of where your dwarves "live," and the easiest way to figure this out is your default meeting area. I think I know what you're on about, though--exploiting this to lead invaders astray, into traps and such. I don't know how well this would work; I imagine there'd be certain safeguards, the most conceivable ones being, "Which meeting area's inside and outside?" or, "Which one's the biggest?", a trickier one being, "Which one is the most 'used' by dwarves at the moment?" Don't hold me to those, though.