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We got attacked by a Necromancer Wereantelope.

He ran about biting and killing citizens and their livestock, as werebeasts do. Then he changed into a necromancer human, raised a citizen he had just killed moments before, and was killed immediately by the newly made Werebeast Faint One. This Werebeast Faint One then went around madly killing citizens, until the surprisingly brave Manager walked up to him and took him to the hospital. Immediately after being placed in the hospital for bed rest, he jumped out of bed and chased the Medic around the room three times, then out into the hall, and into the recently made Mayorial Suite. I locked all the doors, and the Faint One killed the Mayor in her bed. The Medical Dorf walled him into the bedroom, and the Faint One stopped moving, finally.

Aftermath: We are making a new Mayorial Bedroom for the new Mayor. There is muffled wailing from behind the new rough wall in the Mayorial Study, and the old hospital has also been walled in as it might be full of werebeasts-to-be, but we are telling the new Mayor not to ask any questions. About half the fort are dead and dying, and the Manager has ordered a lot more coffins and slabs to be made.

You might get more help in the modding forum.
In a standard game you get a mix of dwarf genders, but I'm guessing your mod is affecting that outcome. Do the queens have specific professions? Perhaps you could try to pay for those professions in your starter 7 dwarfs settlers? 

I wonder if you could combine minecart logic with the manager to monitor item quantities, triggering a door / anvil or whatever to be produced instead of pulling a lever?  Then have a stockpile to take from that workshop and feed a minecart set to be pushed all the time, that then triggers a pressure plate of the right threshold for minecart + load to disable the trackstop.

I am eternally impressed at the rube goldberg machines of Dwarf Fortress.

I've got three dead dwarves, numerous clothes in various states of repair, a wooden artifact, a bucket of lye, some rotten food and a dead turkey down there, but they're all at the bottom of the cistern, and the well bucket seems to dip the top, so we're all good, the water has continued to be um... "clean". You'll be fine!

I find they won't get a scrap of armour unless they have been individually assigned specific armour. Even then, I have to have a method.

First I assign armour individually to specific members of the squad, and weapons the same way. I have the armour and weapons stockpiled binless in a large room, and then order the squad into the room. When they're all in, I lock the door and let them free for a few minutes, then order them from one end of the room to the other for a bit. Then release them, wait a bit, and eventually unlock the door. Later I do the same thing again. It's amazing how many of them finally get the hint and put on the armour assigned to them.

A well, a bed, a table, and a chair are a more functional set of decorations.

In my experience, having two single-part instruments is pretty impressive. Usually they have at least three parts.

Like I said, I didn't use vertical bars, just a vertical grate. Fortifications would have made the lava flow very slowly out of the pipe, I was looking for a more explosive rate, something more weaponised, than an over-the-fortification flow. I didn't realise how suicidal and fast the trolls would be, so the grate seemed like enough to keep my dorfs out of it while I dealt with everything else.

I don't much like making sacrifice of my dorfs, so I don't dig channels under molten rock flow. It became a very nice narrow river of fire, and we got a bridge over the top of it, and dug a new entrance. No big deal.