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[EveryZig]

@ Girlinhat: All you need to harvest goblinite (in .19) is (clay or stone) and (wood and/or gravity). I think that even if the clay bug is fixed, you can still kill an ambush (if you know they are there) with one 10 length bridge over a long drop linked to a lever (3 stones + bridge materials). Or just three weapon traps with spiked wooden balls, though that is less fun.

About less being more in a different way, what do you guys find to be the best number of weapons per trap? I find that one copper serrated disk works much better then five+ because 5 disks gets two or so enemies then jams, while a one disk trap can strike for three red body parts on different enemies again and again and again.

[Lord Darkstar]

EveryZig, flying enemies are ignorable, if you have put a roof on everything and have mechanisms for drawbridges, links, and levers. Otherwise, you'll have to go with covered fortress and hatches on Z+1 level inside your covered fortress and a ramp leading up to the hatch. Since hatches aren't breakable from below, you just retreat into your covered fortress, lock the hatches, and wait it out.

[EveryZig]

It's really a pain, though, to build roofs over all of your above-ground stuff and make it airtight. Though that might have been partly because the last time I did that I made my no-digging fortress entirely from glass (this was before flying sieges).

[Triaxx2]

Metal weapons to get Goblinite? For shame. Such is why Arnok gave us mighty wooden Crossbows.

And if you have wood and water, you can make a pump to build a moat out of wooden blocks.

Minimum mining build: One Anvil, one stone, one ore.

[Lord Darkstar]

Air moats are better than water moats. They cannot be crossed by anything but fliers.

[EveryZig]

Lava moats are fun to dump things into though.

[Triaxx2]

I find double moating to be the best of both worlds. Use either a channel with water, and then a wall, or a two Z-level wall, with only the lower one with water in it.

Of course, using a single moat is for sissy elf types.

Real dwarves use three moats. A dual stack air moat, a deep well moat, and a magma moat. The order is of course up to the dwarf in question, but that's a minor thing.

[arkhometha]

I find double moating to be the best of both worlds. Use either a channel with water, and then a wall, or a two Z-level wall, with only the lower one with water in it.

Of course, using a single moat is for sissy elf types.

Real dwarves use three moats. A dual stack air moat, a deep well moat, and a magma moat. The order is of course up to the dwarf in question, but that's a minor thing.

And if you close the drawbridge, there is a chance that the enemy's in it will burn into magma, drown or break a few bones on the rock?

[MarcAFK]

A true dwarf doesn't use a moat for defence , they just like being surrounded by magma

[agatharchides]

I've successfully defended a fort in a terrifying biome with barely any military. Lack of metals made me get creative with my first drowning trap and spike-lined pit traps. I've even set up cave-in traps for FB's. Make you moat be wherever the goblins are. 

[MarcAFK]

Yeah but it's just not dwarven to use wood for anything, beds should be carvable out of bone

[Mantonio]

Yeah but it's just not dwarven to use wood for anything, beds should be carvable out of bone

It IS dwarfen if they're made of cavern wood, like Tower Caps or Nether Cap (those ones being my favourites, because they're coooool  )

[Girlinhat]

I'm fond of Blood Thorn and Goblin-Cap myself, mostly for the red, but Tunnel Tuber can be fun for the drug-trip color scheme.  In fact, just throw all the shroom-trees up and build walls and beds and furniture from them.  Your dwarves are already eating and drinking raw mushroom, it's not like they'll notice.

Also, *facepalm* at the "cool" comment.

[Abyss, Holder of Light]

I always dig down, down to the third cavern level at embark, just for shroom-trees.

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Not funFun when you hit a sleeping Forgotten Beast though.