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Because my adventurer got all of your allocated rain dumped on them at once.

Seriously:

Now for my question: WHY WAS SOMEONE THROWING SWIMMING POOLS AT ME?

I just create a batch file of dfhack-run for a bunch of createitems.  You don't have to make candy cloth and manually crank out masterwork.  You can just createitems and then use "changeitem q 5 here".  The only bottleneck in forced strangemood are bones, but embarking with a butcher/tanner and lots of turkeys can handle that. 

I embark with a sorta default group I use for most normal-ish spots and several dogs/pigs/cats and just have one of them slap up a butcher/tanner shop for the bone requirements.

I have them made because I think it flags something in the history which keeps the item from moving when the fort is retired. I've had stuff I just dfhack into existence disappear or move around but stuff which is flagged with a dorf maker behaves as I expect, hence the extra step there.

Now I'm interested in finding out the preference tweaks.  I observe that when a peasant has a like to warhammer, the tend to make platinum warhammer artifacts with forced strangemood weaponsmith.

Preference tweaking is complicated as all hell.

gui/gm-editor (I actually set shift+d for it since I noticed it wasn't being used for anything else I did, and just tweaked other stuff to accomodate it) then:
status > current_soul > preferences, and then you gotta get used to how things are.

Normally the first couple will be materials preferences, they'll have 0 for preference type and then mat type and index on one of the first few will be 0 type and an index between 0 and 24, 0 is iron, 8 is steel, 10 is platinum, 25 is candy (which isn't needed since all dorfs will default to using any candy available for a mood involving metal, but it helps if you want candy decorations), 26+ are where I like to put modded materials, in this case soulsteel sits at 26.

Then down a couple spaces will usually be one with 4 likes_item, below that will be item_type. 24 is weapons (0 whip, 1 hammer, 2 axe, 7 pick, then I have modded katana and wakizashi at 23 and 24, with the other weapons in order as you find in item_weapons.txt), 25 is armor (0 is breastplate, 1 is mail shirt, 5 is cloak), 26 is gloves (I think 1 is gauntlets, I always have to double check), 27 should be shield (0 is normal shields), 28 is helm (0 is normal helms), 29 is shoes (1 is high boots), and lastly 59 is pants (1 is greaves) for a full suit of artifact gear if you have enough dorfs to mood.

If you have extra residents you tweak makeown they won't have preferences, but in the preference screen you can hit alt+i and type unit_preference then specify a material and item type and you can get basic artifacts out of them, gotta add more materials after the first one to get better decorations and such.

Yeah, I always set my combat preferences to "stand ground" because of my first experience jumping into an open pit in a dark tower.

Yeah, would kinda make sense for pain to give stages, winded, stunned, unconscious, or something like that from "having the breath knocked out of you", "stars flashing before your eyes", to finally "blacking out in agony" rather than just "a-ok" *stubs toe, fracturing it* "OH DAMN, GOODNIGHT FOLKS" *thud* as it is now.

Then someone gets the brilliant idea "hey, I'll put the levers on the level above/below what they connect to, that makes perfect sense!" until they get a situation where they can't do that, so t hey're like "ok, I know, I'll make the lever out of the same stuff as the thing it controls!", then they'll have a time where they can't do that, so they're like "oh, I'll put a note for these new ones" and then they'll realize they don't know how to control one of their older bridges and build a new lever for it and add a note that mentions the other lever but mysteriously omits the reference to which bridge it controls.

*dun dun*

Doomforests

Don't even have any T.T it's funny because the only thing I hacked with her is using advfort to dismantle some forges, taking the steel anvils downstairs, dismantling a magma smelter, building a magma forge, melting down the anvils and making me some steel gear (masterwork battle axe first thing I made, awesome, shame it took a lot longer to get the rest of the gear to exceptional or masterwork, and getting the second masterwork boot took forever since I can't stand having just one...) then going out and looking for some easy targets to instead stumble on a careless dragon (facing the other way) in an abandoned fortress, making my first kill with my first-try-masterwork axe a frickin dragon.

Then after rampaging across to the west it just spit that out shortly after hopping back into travel mode from a river crossing.

They're sitting there looking at me now like "I could swear we were more awesome and somewhere far to the west a second ago... what the hell?"...

...technically the adventurer is still alive, but man, I just went through collecting armor for my two hammerdorf companions, got them both in full steel plate, steel hammers, one has a title, other is close, heading towards some inviting stuff after having wandered through a completely empty dark fortress, then this:
[DFHack]# *** Error in `./libs/Dwarf_Fortress': corrupted double-linked list: 0xdb1b1ec0 ***
die
./dfhack: line 43: 23179 Killed                  setarch i386 -R env LD_PRELOAD="$PRELOAD_LIB" ./libs/Dwarf_Fortress "$@"
*sigh*