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So this succession fort has two purposes then right? A. Make a ring of forts around the world next to each other and; B. As an adventurer take out any threats in the area. If that is indeed all there is too it you can count me in for a turn or two if possible.

Also, I don't recall reading about it (I may have skimmed it over) but is the tileset Phoebus?

Yes. Forts should be one next to another, connected at least via roads and each of them should produce more newborns than deaths and at least one artifact before new fortress can be established. In the meantime, use adventurers to clear any dangers that appear.

Added to that was you are playing for nearly dead dwarven civilization "The Bulbous Tool" (Gubellor) which doesn't have any other cities than those player made. There is one (worldgen) dwarf claiming to be a king of this civilization and few more nobles but, according to ptb_ptbs's first turn logs, these newly built player forts are not recognizing this king as their truly leader and call him usurper of throne. So they are not willing to trade with dwarven traders from "mountainhome" (till dwarf from one of player forts is a declared a king).

This addition idea got currently lost a bit because after ptb_ptb's first turn there was a bug with inaccessibility of nobles screen upon reclaiming of the first fort. I repaired that with abandoning and rereclaiming it but I have managed to rereclaim it with other dwarven civilization, namely Tower of Sockets (Urdimsesh), which has like a dozen of forts in the NE part of world, at the NW banks of eastern sea. World map before turn 1:

If you are willing to join the party, welcome on board. There is lots of turns to offer. I am currently trying to fortify (with not the right civilization :/ ) the first fort ptb_ptb made. With much more dwarves than that dying civ had I have already got it again in state of "successful fort" (we have few artifacts and more babies than deaths) so I can retire it and offer the save to others soon. There is currently necrosiege though so I need to first deal with that. Would you like rather a fort or an adventurer as your first turn?

And yes, I think ptb_ptb is using Phoebus' graphic set. I am playing vanilla DF though. I guess use none/any graphics set you like but be ready to explain to others not familiar with it what is on the images you included in your logs.

only to find my whole fort beeing populated with dozens of humen, elven and dwarfen merchants, and wagons standing in every possible and impossible positions (seriously, how did they get those down to cavern layer through those stairways???)

Reported in 8147: "Retire with caravan present --> live wagons scattered around site", 8443, "Abandoned fortress, visited as adventurer after a few years, is full of filled wagons" and other similar reports.

as soon as there's a herbalist

And you should really have one or two around, Sisyphean. They are not bad in old versions but with any embark with just some bushes and up in thickness of vegetation they do shine in last versions. With multihauling they can take lots of herbs at once and get you lots of food. And then there are stepladders and fruit trees with brewable fruits...
Some players now are doing forts with herbalists as only food-makers, no farming at all.

Ehm, what about trying wheelbarrows?

i didnt bring any fruit on embark just a bunch of seeds, animals and booze

On reclaims all previous items are forbidden. Try that [d-b-c] over area to mass reclaim it. [k] should show if it is forbidden with these curly brackets " { item} ".

EDIT: Also kitchen screen is not the best place to check stocks. Go [z-stocks] and finds fruits there. Having active bookkeeper helps a lot there to see precise numbers (precise level is set at [n]obles - [s ]ettings on bookkeeper).

I would try putting that "Brew drink from fruit" on top as you have some blueberries, it seems. "Extract" is for other things (see for more).

Have you tried building of new still nearby?

Redid the entire drowning chamber, fixed issue. Thanks.

Have you find out where was the problem?

You also may try to
1) remove any bins/barrels from stockpile
2) break all these connections to smaller chains (start with, say, just stockpile-still connection then add more later when this works)
3) remove any burrows from equation

Are some of your output piles also linked to "give" to other piles? In that case, they'd only be used as transit locations and all contents would be sent to the next tier of piles as soon as possible.

It seemed to me so too from that initial description.