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It depends on what you're doing. If you had a particular type of embark in mind, you may want to tweak things to allow it, rather than change directions and adapt. Early on, in particular, it may be useful to concentrate on a few things in a fortress in order to learn them, rather than trying to run in all directions at once.

It is a sort of "easy mode" then.
I am totally agree that this learning strategy can be useful, but at the other hand if there is no iron at embark at all ,then other sources of iron can be sort out as you can read here in this thread.

It is not complete yet understood by me ( has to do with the language issues) for how this tweak exactly works, but it revolves i think about Marble treated as a iron ore in not sedimentary layers and this is easily found by mining.. marble ore.
   

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Aha, yes there is mayor now .
Its a noble position: expedition leader
But the expedition leader was a noble, what happened with him is he still a noble ?

Could not find it with dwarf therapist..there ar no Nobles to find ..or do i overlook it or not using ..? 

(Don't send your expedition leader, or you won't ever be able to make new squads).


a- Artifacts: Artifacts last seen held by someone cannot be recovered. Others can, but expect your squad to be gone for a year or so as they follow clues to find the artifact.

In the future you'll be able to follow squads in a separate window to see how they do. Will be a few years before that though.

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 Following the squads should be  helpful feature with a time scheme
Only the squads seems to self supporting for food then ?

I assigned a expedition leader to the squad and made his profession : soldier.
That is conflicting for making new squads as you pointed out.
Finding back the expedition leader ( that's was his former profession, right?) in the fortress is not that easy yet.
I am still searching for the former expedition leader what i reassigned now from the squad and he was a soldier in the squad.

   

Light aquifers are slow enough you can dig right through them. Just keep on digging down. You do need to build a drain area at the bottom of your main stair well, but a slightly large flat area is good enough. The water will spread out and evaporate passively. You only need pumps to pierce through heavy aquifers.

As one of your first priorities you should build a bridge (drawbridge or regular bridge) to block your entrance and link it to a lever. Pull the lever to seal the vault doors, then just ride it out.

The aquifer will provide you mud for farming (infinite plump helmets) and water for either drinking or for hospitals.

A small area with a little plump helmet farm, a well, and either a tavern or nondenominational temple will sustain your fortress for eternity. It won't be a glamorous existence, but dwarves will be fed, watered, and happy through social/religious activities.

Building a drainarea at the bottom of the main stair.. how deep is your fortress?
There are first some light aquifer z levels and then rock z-levels   
At some point you need rock or is this  done by the main stair construction ( a bend ) what goes deeper then. 

The aquifer gives mud on the bottom of the drain area, don't see how to get mud ?

I am now focussing on trading in order to get materials for weapons
The militairy squad armament is now in play, because  i assigned a metal uniform, but that seems to be not right starter uniform. 

Just to make sure we're on the same page -- my masterworks, do you mean items like ☼this☼, or artifacts that the dwarf makes after getting an !, claiming a workshop, and creating something of their own?

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I will look at difference of those masterworks too!
But can i not treat all the masterworks as the same ?

Any dwarf can become legendary, assuming they are given enough time to practice a skill.

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The relation between skill level and item quality is not yet clear yet for me.
It are the legendary skilled dwarves who are making master pieces, no one else do if they are not a legendary skilled dwarf, right?