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[iEpinephrine]

I don't have any great ambitions, but I always look at my fortresses these days and think *sigh, I wish I had solid steel doors six tiles wide and eight tall*

I'm not so fond of all them new fangled mechanisms that make for a modern production line, but I like to think of the mechas as Golems and then they become suitably fantasy.  So I might build two huge golems to protect my steel gate, controllable via a lever room in their chest.

Also, in fortress talk 8 or thereabouts Toady mentions much of this stuff, walking fortresses, boats, funky phsyics etc.

[imperium3]

What I'd really like is to have a nice big goods elevator, to make really deep mining much easier. Haulers dump ore/gems on the elevator, it gets lifted up to the stockpiles where a few more haulers sort it out. Would make life much easier.

Of course that could lead to interesting fun when a Forgotten Beast hijacks the lift...

[Mantonio]

Will this mean Instruments will finally have a use?

Can we tell the children to just stand in the elevators all day and play terrible music?

[expwnent]

I've been trying to design an impenetrable vault, a place where you can't get at what's inside, or destroy it, even given unlimited access to dwarves, rock, picks, water, magma, etc. So far I haven't come up with anything truly impenetrable, but with moving parts, it might be possible to work something up. It depends on how they work.

[Rowanas]

I will build a giant 20 z-level fist, shaking with rage, to welcome goblins and elves. Whenever either of them come, I'll press a little switch inside the fort and a rail will lift another 20 z-level pillar which will appear, from the outside, to extend from between the index and ring fingers.

Then, the same lever will raising specifically designed bridges so that they appear to spell out "HOOWUH!" to the encroachers.

Finally, the entire giant "fuck you" array will slide out on yet more rails to crush whoever has angered me so.
I've always wanted to slap someone with a rocket (or firework) propelled prosthetic hand, with the hand giving them the finger. Now my dreams may be realised through dwarf fortress.

[Archereon]

Assuming that moving fortress parts can move freely and are not bound to rails or something like that, dwarven battletanks with magma tank on top for rapid area denial. If they are, rail-mounted battle trains with magma tanks for rapid area denial. They'll be armed with ballista and catapults which are then mounted on ANOTHER rotateable platform.

Other than that, a rapid transport vehicle that grinds gobbos into a fine paste when it moves to the exit, transporting my legendaries. Also, I will most likely make a giant bucket I can lower into the magma sea to scoop up magma, saving me from using pump stacks.

I got a feeling that a lot of this will not be possible, but I like to dream.

Steam powered battle tanks that shoot elves?

How about elevators that leads to a trade depot reserved for elves?

(Note, that trade depot will be right in the middle of the hidden fun stuff...)

[Zidane]

You could make Organs, and robotic symphonies that could give dwarves happy thoughts!

[blue emu]

My Dwarves are already planning a Goblin Space Program. I've set out a few cage traps to "recruit" our first Gobbonauts.

[Saposhiente]

1. In Dwarf Russia, DOOR SMASHES YOU! Make this my entrance:
Z +1

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###H≈≈≈ <-Water
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##··+BF <-B=Retracting bridge, F=To Fort
#######Z 0

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###+### <- to outside
###+###
#H++###
##∆@#+# <- @=moveblock, no floor
#######Elsewhere:
Pump, poweredness determined by lever, from Magma to channel in Z -1
Z -1

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#D##### <- D=Drain for Magma
###≈≈≈≈
#######When you are under attack, move the block north two dorfs, activate the pump, close the hatch, and retract the bridge. When not, do the opposite. Any would-be destroyer of blocks (IF the block can be destroyed at all) gets magma'd in the face. If you end up against a flying fast swimming(to fight the current) magmaproof unbreathing building destroyer 2, you can obsidian the entrance. Combine this with putting an elevator under your trade depot to allow safe entry, and you have an impenetrable fortress.

2.TANKS. A bunch of atom-smashers connected to moveblocks so that I can steamroll goblins while they mill near the entrance. For large enemies, deploy archers on top of the platform, behind fortifications. Extra Credit: Put a magma reservoir with pump and windmill on top, so that you can burn your enemies without plugging your river with obsidian.

[Oglokoog]

A fortress in which all the rooms, hallways and corridors constantly shift places.

It'd eat fps, but it'd be so damn cool. "To the tanner. Oh wait, this is a metalsmiths forge now. And wasn't there a staircase behind me? Is that the booze stockpile accelerating away from me at about 40 Urists per hour? OH GOD!"

THIS. 

[Naz]

I'm going to power my fort with magma, have a cat cannon and name my fortress voltron.

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

With this, the first real megaproject of animation will be Cacame Aweminidade's statue that crushes every (proceeds to reread CA story) - elf that comes too close.

[Shrugging Khan]

I'll make an origami fortress that folds into a moebius strip!

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

I know!
Sea life processors just got a whole lot easier!
Lift the ocean to YOU!

[NSQuote]

Massive train fortress looping around the embark.

Either that, or Dwarven airplanes. Flap the wings really fast to fly hummingbird style and dump magma on anything that opposes you.