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[UristMcDwarf]

So, what are some major quirks about your fortress?

I don't have any...

Yet.

[AlBravo]

The rotting corpses and skeletons of every elven merchant that has ever come to my fort adorn the top of my front gate and walls.

[obeliab]

I absolutely can't stand having up/down stairs when they don't actually go both ways.

I take a lot of time to ensure that, even in my exploratory mining shafts, all stairs that go only up or only down are <'s or >'s.

That's not very interesting.

[Zaerosz]

My dwarves butcher sentients. 90% of my artifacts are usually made out of leather due to having so many kitchen staff on cleanup after a siege and tanning huge amounts of goblin leather. Of those, about 40-50% are made of some kind of sentient creature.

I also got a skirt made of chicken feathers once. And a cloak made from giant ant carapace. That one in particular I thought was pretty impressive.

[lowbart]

Because my entrance is 40z above my main fortress, in a permanently frozen tundra, it's littered with frozen corpses that my dwarves are too lazy to dump.

Here's a real confession - one time during a tantrum spiral (riot), I got sick of the chaos and issued my guards masterwork steel axes. I figured the riot was going to kill almost everyone eventually anyway, so I might as well hurry up the process.

Also, the local delicacy is kitten meat scones, but on this forum that's nothing special.

[Levi]

I always remove ramps all around the entrance to my fort.  Not really sure why, but I always do.

[Girlinhat]

Secretly, ashamedly, I love building above ground, and rarely dig down to the magma.

[Psieye]

Magma in the first season of embark, magma workshops up in the summer. Living quarters nested between the caverns.

[bobhayes]

I...am always slow to develop a metal industry. I carefully segregate and protect my high-skill metal-oriented immigrants.

But I wall off the world, deploy a million cage projects, and build pump projects long before building the forges and smelting the ore.

[Samuel]

I have a crippling obsession with cavern exploration. If the first level of caverns contained 50 troglodytes that killed half my fortress, I'd order the survivors to dig down to the next level. Many forts have died this way.

[SirAaronIII]

I don't kill the elves that come to trade.

[GrizzleBridges]

Ive had 20+ fortresses... never seen magma...

[cog disso]

I am building a gigantic olivine temple dedicated to the storage of chained macaques.

[SethCreiyd]

There are at least two death traps on every floor.  The good dwarves are never told to go operate one.

[Dragonchampion]

I always remove ramps all around the entrance to my fort.  Not really sure why, but I always do.

I do that as well, mostly because of the fact I hate when damn archers get above my gates and fire down. Might be instinctive for you to do it as well, it is something I know that I picked up early.