Editing User:Karpatius

'''Plan 371: Entrychamber of Final Disappointment'''<br />Dig a tall, narrow chamber into the fortress. Fill the chamber with a vertical stair maze, going up and down randomly and taking a path towards the entrance when space allows, as the only means of entering your actual fortress gate.<br />An assigned Gatekeeper or a pressure plate near the end of the maze will ensure safety of the fort and keep the masons busy.<br /><br />Difficulty: slight; with security moderate<br />Usefulness: usable, so a bad dwarf trick<br /><br />Flaw: flying enemies<br />Correction: fortification corridors along the chamber walls, train only archers in the fort<br /><br />Bonus: lava moat<br />Bonus: have a giant gate at the end of the chamber<br /><br />Bonus: lock the doors just before invaders reach your fort and flood the chamber<br />Mega Bonus: make it magma instead<br />Mega Mega Bonus: mix water and magma, mine out he valuable obsidian, rebuild, rinse and repeat<br /><br />

'''Plan 27: The Vault'''<br />Dig a complex big enough for several rooms and create a farm, some workshops and haul in a few animals. Make sure you have as many crops available inside the vault. Next, dig a chamber around the complex and create a watertight, collapsible ( either destruction or otherwise ) corridor from one of the walls into the complex with a gate at the complex end. Flood the chamber with water and in case of trouble run into the complex and seal yourself in.<br /><br />Difficulty: moderate. The entry corridor and safe flooding might take some thingking.<br />Usefulness: possibly save a few dwarfs or the entire fortress by locking them in a pressure chamber. Since this is pretty much long-term suicidal, a decent dwarf trick<br /><br />Flaw: tantrum spiral if relatives didn't make it in<br />Solution: fancy and artifact furniture<br /><br />Bonus: water tank below the complex to ensure lastability<br />Bonus: instead of water, create lava<br />Bonus: if you used lava, make underground aqueducts for plumbing<br /><br />