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This is a glorious story! I have a mental image of a whole lot of dwarves walking around with bruised noses, due to a Star-Trek-like belief that the door in front of them is real, and shall open just before they walk through!

You don't need a Lazy Newb Pack to up (or decrease) the child/baby capacity. That is a vanilla option.

I will admit that one of the reasons I love Volcano Forts is the nostalgia for 2D. I don't want to go back to 2D (things are better now!) but the way lava works is just so cool. Plus unlimited glass forges are just so excellent.

Underground waterfalls were awesome, I have since started making underground waterfalls landscaped through my caverns from the aquifer, to a drain on the other side. Lots of pretty. Lots of fun! Fiery forgotten beasts beware!

I am interested in when and whether we start getting digging enemies. I expect there will be ways of redesigning forts to not allow a digging enemy much success. Perhaps living under the first cavern layer could be the only way, if all diggers enter the map on the surface. Perhaps built structures wouldn't be diggable, meaning you have to "strongbox" your fort with manufactured walls, and build a real fortish sort of fort. Really, though, we've gone through just so many different changes in Dwarf Fortress that I don't think this will harm the game or break the game, it will just result in a different playstyle, as all the changes have so far. I mean, I'm now walling my artifacts into strongrooms if I don't have the ability to surround their pedestal with chained wardogs. Perhaps in a future fort, I will be building a fort on stilts above a pool of magma (or a heavy aquifer) to prevent digging artifact stealers. Who knows? I am sure of one thing: I will still be enjoying and playing the game.

 I can see how it would work (Although I'd use drawbridge catapults). However, flying logs of doom sounds like a GREAT way to fill coffins and the hospital.

My two cents: Charcoal blocks can be more efficiently moved and stored than wood logs, minecarts or not. So if you're in a safe area to put workshops above ground, converting the logs to charcoal earlier in the transportation process might be key.

While it is possible the Poisoner is taking his job too seriously, I've not heard of one drinking himself into full on death (although I did have one who kept passing out from booze). Generally I find my tavern works just as effectively without anyone to serve the alcohol, though, so diagnostically, not having a tavern keeper might be useful until you can fin the source of the deaths.

Any blood on the floor, walls or furniture? It could be some sort of not-immediately-obvious tavern brawl. You could check the {r}eports on battles. (edit: You said no combat evidence, so I guess it's not that then... Hmmm...)

Oh yeah, and after a hilarious issue I once had with a wild bull moose, drunk dwarf children and a tame turkey, are there any animals in the tavern? They can be surprisingly effective killers. That said, {r}eports will also help rule out killer moose travelling 20z down from the surface to pick fights with the livestock...

1. Make a meeting area that isn't a library, tavern, temple, or otherwise used for something.
2. Pasture animals in places you want them. (use i-n-N to pasture).
3. Cage traps for animals you can't control. Or just have your military slaughter them and have the butchers haul them away to be used for food, leather and bones.
4. Chain animals with ropes to places you want them to be.

I keep a row of chained animals (usually exotic ones like monkeys and parrots and anteaters and things) down the middle of my bookcases, so that they can guard the books from thieves, so I'm pro-animals-in-library personally.