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Image 1 — The foolish dwarves who built a surface fort. Open to suggestions on defense design
Image 2 — The foolish dwarves who built a surface fort. Open to suggestions on defense design
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Image 5 — The foolish dwarves who built a surface fort. Open to suggestions on defense design
▲ 223 r/dwarffortress

The foolish dwarves who built a surface fort. Open to suggestions on defense design

It's like year 8. We're richer than ever, and the fort walls are getting higher. We have almost everything we need to survive a siege. Most importantly we managed to avoid the framerate virus that my previous forts suffered.

Thank you to people to suggested an overhang b/c i'm still a relatively new player. But the goblins still manage to climb in some places. Are bricks just not a viable defense block? Do I have too many fortification blocks? Thinking of pumping magma into my moat. Many things to consider.

u/lastoflight — 3 days ago
▲ 37 r/NovaRomaGame

10 hours into this game, building waterslides, and drinking the river dry, at 1400 pop. It's still a rough town, but it's my home and I love it

u/lastoflight — 5 days ago
▲ 37 r/dwarffortress

Idashas, 'Moistnesscaves' at the start of year 6. The dwarves didn't write too much about their history until now. They didn't know their shallow little fort would become a 'capital'. They didn't even take the time to pick an epic name. Recently, the queen and her entourage arrived, and now there are more people with new titles demanding bigger rooms and accomodations.

Our world. We didn't expect more than a dozen people living in in our first five years. We thought that we would remain a faraway outpost, but more migrants arrive. Every time the caravan returned they came empowered to elevate our status, and we didn't see any other clear way to progress. Now the entire monarchy has moved here, so they could sit closer to the humans and elves we have established contact with in the west.

There are two moats. The deep, natural one with the small bridge, and the manmade one with the wide bridge.

The wide moat is sort of a fountain, where water is rushing out from a pressurized leak in my fort's plumbing. This water (level 7) carries objects down into the ravine.

The goal for surviving sieges is to not only lock the goblins out, but to lock the dwarves in to save them from their own stupidity. The dwarves are making everything steeper and harnessing the river water in anticipation for sieges.

Making the fort harder to approach. There were always at least 50 people outside the fort at any given time, mining, chopping wood, or hauling. There are also tons of pets.

The dwarves just barely flipped the lever in time when a dozen goblin ambushers rushed their lowered drawbridge. Most of the raiders were thrown into the air, and then into the ravine. It seems that all of their clothes are thrown off in the process, and the items are falling back on him one by one. lmfao.

Another goblin landed squarely on his head inside of my fort.

I love that you can see multiple levels of activity at once- the trading in the main courtyard, the training in the other; the captain and his dogs, beehives, pastures, gardens, et cetera.

A legendary fisherman was jumped by a group of agitated mountain gnomes. Wasn't totally unprovoked, they had some valid grievances with us. Another fisherdwarf, who also happened to be on duty, saw what happened to his friend, went in a total martial trance.

A huge fight broke out in the upper tavern. Up to 90 people injured. Probably every single creature living here was involved. I don't fully know why it happened, but I had been overproducing food and livestock, corpses and meals could be found rotting everywhere. I even had a ceiling grate for the kitchen miasma. You may have notice the collective anger boiling over time in the top right of my screenshots.

And here is a forgotten beast attacking people in the limestone mines.

https://preview.redd.it/yr7idk14hgzg1.png?width=3838&format=png&auto=webp&s=df6f20297ae1bc376f317a3f5ef801d7f70f2f9a

The dwarves, with their elven, goblin, and human friends, continue to dig, and haul limestone, siltstone, and rock salt to the surface. The dwarves want to be seen. To build a hoard that is not hidden. What will come of their hubris.

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u/lastoflight — 8 days ago