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It's not really about literal value or even how they feel. I just think it's cool.

[e] I usually run fairly small forts where I know all my dwarves and I like to pamper them. They should look fly whether there's a mechanisim in place for them to sufficiently care or not.

If I'm gaming fortress value I'll just set aside a few adamantine for artifacts or whatever.

Structures suspended above volcanoes are some of my favorite projects. I went through a phase where I was genning worlds with dozens of them so I could always embark on one.

For some added coolness build it out of glass! That was my last project: a glass tavern with a gold/glass pyramid temple above it.

I'm huge fan of green glass for blocks as it's infinite and I don't need to strip entire z-levels. Bonus points if you go Archcrystal style and use clear. I decided that was too much of a hassle.

[e]You can change the pop cap at any time and start receiving migrants/babies again.

I consider cloth industry as a classic DF-noob trap.

IDK I like clothing cause it's complicated and a cool way to pimp out your fort. Masterfully woven giant-spider silk that's masterfully dyed and then masterfully made into a garment is baller as hell.

If you know what you're doing I think the fps impact is marginal. Best case is you have about three items per citizen worst case should only be a handful of floating extras..

To make my magma dump as safe as possible I build (or carve) it such that the actual hole over magma is surrounded on three sides by walls and the fourth side is the track stop. Above that is the receiving stockpile. I've had very few problems with dwarves falling in.

You can do magma dumps with qsp. Another very simple setup that synergizes well with cleanowned is to just make a 1x2 tile dump zone with the back most tile over the hole. They'll always go for the further back tile and into the magma it goes. I say it goes well with cleanowned because that marks them for dumping and as far as I know you can't setup a traditional track stop qsp to receive dumped items.

[e]You can even setup your activity zone magma dump on top of your qsp dump. Just draw the zone over the hole and the track stop and set to active whenever you need it. Just don't forget to turn it off if you're dumping other stuff you don't want incinerated!

Also, I believe I read that masterwork destruction bad thoughts are proportional to the total number of masterworks they've made. Churn out enough clothing and it should bother them less and less.

You enter from the surface using the ramps. When you get to the level with the hallway, you walk to the other side and continue going down the stairs.

Luriant's diagram is a profile view of the situation.

Something worth noting I think: idling isn't necessarily a bad thing.

Even early on when your pop is in the 20s to 30s, it's almost not practical to have every single dwarf doing something. To simply keep a fortress running doesn't actually require that much labor. As long as basic functions don't go off the rails and the stuff you want done gets done, don't worry about it.

Once your gem cutting workshop is linked to a stockpile it will only check that stockpile for everything a job needs. My guess it that your setter can't access the thing you're trying to encrust.

If I'm encrusting statues I'll make a small stockpile for them next to my gem setter. IIRC this is also the only way to specify what they encrust.

If your fort was super busy that might be it. Dumping it a pretty low priority task iirc.