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What are the settings so dwarves will always wear armor? Won't they have bad thoughts of this?

]As far as I know it doesn't trigger any bad thoughts.  The extra weight and slower movement are the only downsides.

Some dwarves might get bad thoughts about not being able to acquire something new/wear something fancy as they won't wear anything not explicitly part of their uniform, and since armor won't degrade over time like clothing does they won't be equiping new stuff very often after a certain point. Wearing armor doesn't itself cause any, though.

Goblins just sent a force of 70+ soldiers to ask for my mayor's unremarkable iron battle axe with a name. I gave it to them because it was about time for him to upgrade his weaponry. Still, the largest force of goblins I've seen since unretiring and they ask for an iron axe they can make themselves in bulk.

Dwarves can apparently cancel sleep due to being miserable.

You could also give melee weapons for the marksdwarves as a backup in case they do something stupid like this (or in case the enemy manages to close with them). It should work nowadays.

If those 30 troops are fully equipped with metal gear and have at least some training, you could probably just sally out and drive them off without too much harm to your forces. Goblins seem to have a habit of marching in long columns directly towards the nearest fortress entrance, so you could gather your troops in one place - right behind the front gate, for example - wait for the goblins to get close to you and then launch all your melee troops on them at once. The goblins are likely to be too thinly spread at that point to make effective use of their numbers, so your dwarfs should be able to kill enough of them to make the rest flee before the numbers really begin to count.

I became thirsty while crossing a glacier, so I lit a fire to melt some ice I had in my waterskin.

When the glacier turned to water beneath my feet and swiftly froze again, I realized I might have melted a bit more than was necessary.

Just dig deep enough and you will eventually find magma. It might be some 100-150+ z-levels from surface, but there will be some.

They will drop them, because those picks and axes are assigned to the civilian uniform and not the military one.

If you pause the game before trying to order your miners and woodcutters anywhere, you can disable the Mining and Woodcutting tasks and then assign each dwarf the exact weapon they're currently holding. But, your woodcutters won't be any better with an axe than any other civilian, and both your miners and woodcutters will be in their civilian clothes. If you want to give them time to put on some armour, you can skip the fiddling around with weapons and have some weaponry lying in reserve for them along with the armour.

Damn, nothing I plan seems to work. Yet... Thanks anyway.