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Can I make a suggestion for the embark-assistant? Or maybe this doesn't fall under its scope, idk.

Give us an option for a random embark location. Just plop the fort down somewhere in the world and good luck surviving in whatever conditions are there.  Frozen evil biome with no metals?  Good luck.  Temperate hill country with an aquifier?  Better start checking the wiki.

I know nothing prevents us from doing that by throwing a dart at our monitor, but it would seem to be more reflective of the Will of Armok if the computer generated one for us.

I'm pretty sure that I've seen clowns move through upwards diagonals. I.E. I mined a tile above the one of the tiles bordering the hollow of a spire, without revealing and releasing the circus, and clowns that wandered into the map from the underworld edges somehow managed to slip through that non-existent gap and wreak havoc on my dwarves.

This.  They can squeeze upwards through a vertical diagonal into a stairway, if that makes any sense.  Did you have any stairways above and adjacent to the breach?

I like 'em.  They are horribly inaccurate, but when you get that one ballista bolt plow through a file of trolls...  Immensely satisfying.

You have to channel your enemies through a 3 or 4 wide corridor to get them to bunch up, though.  And use fortifications to keep the operators from wandering into each others' line of fire.

Did you designate the water itself as the water supply, or the land at the edge of the pond?  "Only tiles adjacent to water qualify as usable water sources - thus, if you want to place a single-tile zone, place the zone onto a ground tile next to the water, not over the water itself."

I thought lye couldn't be stored in barrels, only buckets?

Is he in a bed or a traction bench?

You could create a therapy room - a legendary bedroom or dining room, like you would make for a noble, and then assign the unhappy dwarf to it.  Kind of tough to do if they're unhappy in large numbers, though.

Maybe your refuse stockpile is full?