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[Iton Ibrukrithzam]

Each of my fortresses are getting slowly more wasteful, including a solid gold plated tomb for a soldier I kitted in full adamantine who I singlehanded sent into a 100+ goblin siege. The fortress had no walls, and I had this sole dwarf out there. She would cleave what felt like 10 of them in 5 seconds and the entire siege would flee in terror. Pretty much deserves all the clownite stuff I gave her for her room and tomb.

I'm Iton Ibrukrithzam, and I approve of this tomb.

I keep embarking at places that only have copper, lol You have some very good ideas.

Thanks, I kinda just typed whatever came to mind.  I need to do some of these myself, I've been in a semi-rut, too.

[Lemunde]

I like the whole "Adam and Eve"/lone dwarf idea, but I've never tried it because I don't like having to kill all my migrants, although it's more of a pain to take care of them.

What's the best way to kill a horde of migrants?

Draft, entomb. Not the dwarfiest way of killing off dwarfs but it requires the least amount of work. Basically you just dig out a room, add a door, draft all the victims, order them to guard the room, lock the door. Dehydration should kill them off eventually. Afterwards remove the door and wall it off and let the rest of your dwarves get on with their lives.

[thegoatgod_pan]

Live in the caverns in the open.  Seriously.  Forces you to think about a lot of z levels at once and use unusual architecture.  Plus its the underdark! Or download a fort from a community thread and force yourself to deal with the unspeakable chaos of other people's forts.  E.g. see my sig

[Captain Mayhem]

Dig down, wall up. Live in a cavern, or build your own, not important. What *is* important is that you leave a few diggers on the surface outside.
Let these stupid lemmings brave dorfs dig straight down to hell and unleash the demons to the not quite as protected world. You are now playing post-apocalyptic DF. Your fortress is the only civ left in the world.

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I actually have no idea if it works like that, never tried myself yet. But it would definitely be in the top 5 ways to deal with sieges.

[Russell.s]

I'm having a lot of fun building my current mega(ish)-project: a giant, underground dwarven tower, currently about 25 levels high and about as wide as the screen with a waterfall flowing down the middle. I got a bit bored for a while until I had the bright idea of turning the two forgotten beasts lurking in my cavern into a goblin disposal device!

I lured them both into prepared arena areas with doors and nobles turkeys, then quickly walled them in. It's amusing watching the flame-spewing giant crocodile burn everything to death.

Maybe you could make a whole fort around capturing as many mega beasts as possible without webbed cage traps and placing them into their own little arenas of death. If you get bored of feeding them goblins you could move them all into one big arena and have them fight each other in pairs- winner stays on !