DWARF FORTRESS CAVERN PREBREACHED FULL

And you should ONLY use the gatehouse as a final push to send your axedorfs out to administer the final blows to what's left after your marksdorfs have gone into martial trances locking them in place until whatever they see is killed. Make sure everything is set, lever linked BEFORE you break the final wall pieces of the corridor outside into the cavern. Then fortify the walls of the corridor, fortify the walls of the dry moat so you can shoot anything that falls into it. Make sure to put the doors with a space in between to help with the door being blocked open thing. You want at least 3 sets of doors in a corridor on the outside of a drawbridge that's over a dry moat, with at least 3 sets of doors in a corridor on the inside of the drawbridge. Then, once you have the capability of putting fire down on anything in a general area, establish a solid gate house in a large enough cavern column to support it. Then Smooth and Fortify all those walls out, establishing safe internal shoot boxes that can shoot at things inside the cavern.

DWARF FORTRESS CAVERN PREBREACHED FULL

Then, once you have at least a working portion of the cavern bored out, establishing an Internal movement capability, then carefully dig out Z layers of the columns so you keep a full spacing of wall between 'inside' and 'outside'.

If you have a column that is too thin to have a full 3x3 through it, don't put stairs into it. The stairs need to have solid blocks on all 8 blocks around them before you want to dig stairs vertically through the column. Make stairs through every column that goes completely through the entire cavern and link all the stairs together on the Z-Layers above/below the caverns. Dig down until under the entire cavern complex and don't dig out the Z-Layer directly above. Before you start thinking of breaching into the caverns you will want to set up shoot boxes. Take your entire army and park it on the safe side of the breach, knowing you are going to lose probably 10+ dorfs until you get the breach repaired, (you get less killed with steel armor and good dodgers which takes YEARS in game to get together). If you have ANY breaches at all, in any form at all, vertical/horizontal, you need to completely disregard everything else until you get that breach walled/floored off. 30 clicks or so to make a marksdorf squad.Īnd second, is more a cavern preparedness guide.

Actually, that's a lie, you have to (1) click to make the squad, (2) designate the armor, (3) click to make the leader, (4-13) fill out the squad with 10 dorfs, (14-18) Set the staggered training schedule using another squads already existing schedule, (19) click off the squad window, (20-21) click on the zone and barracks zone, (22-25) set the squad to use the barracks, (26-28) click on archery range zone and set squad to use the archery range. The process of getting them to work is a bit finicky, BUT, once you do the right things, making MORE squads of working marksdorfs is just a couple clickys. My suggestion is that, for better preparedness for the caverns, two things.įirst, invest in marksdorfs. Also, a REAL siege is the same thing but above ground, 100+ goblins, trolls, beak dogs running around your fortress. Caverns are no joke, breaking into the caverns is SUPPOSED to wipe out your fortress, Forgotten beasts are SUPPOSED to wipe out your dorfs by being almost nigh unkillable.

Dwarf fortress cavern prebreached