Sweet, I'm up to a 40 dwarf fortress called Towertours, whose only entrance is built on a section of cliff cut away from the main hill, surrounded by a wall and has a drawbridge over it, I've recently aquisitioned another section of hillside this way that is yet to be walled but I'm using for outside farming, that the only access are stairways that lead down several levels, this section is going to be used for outdoor farming and has a kennel. Below the main courtyard on my entrance section I'm constructing a barracks, which will have a training area and the lever to the drawbridge, I'm building fortifications above the walls (how do you built up stairs out of nothing, like an empty spot, I can't figure this out still, do I need like something already built there or something?) and I'm going to fill the pits below each of the islands I've made with nasty spikes, and line the short 3-lane road that leads up to the bridge (that I also channeled out) with cages and weapon traps and whatnot as well. Just got my first legendary item too, a billon anvil worth like 14400 named Zethruk Memad. Anyone know if that's gonna convey any bonuses if its used in a building? Can it be used in a building?
I'm really really starting to get addicted to this game. Now I need to get started training my military because even though I'm pretty sure I haven't struck any rich resources my place is getting populated and beautified.