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To my knowledge, the evilness of maps solely determines what kind of and how much wildlife you get, and has no impact on sieges or ambushes.

What I'd recommend doing for starting on such a map is having each of your starting seven dwarves be Proficient in some weapon skill. Crossbows are a bit iffy because starting ammo is so expensive, but if you have trees, you can make stacks of 25 bolts pretty quickly at a craftsdwarf shop. Crossbows also make for very cheap hammers, though, so it might be worth making a couple of proficient hammerdwarves and giving them copper crossbows. Naturally you'll have an axe if you have any trees, too, and you might as well make your miner(s) into Wrestlers.

Giant cave spiders are capable of stealthing themselves. But any time a creature that isn't aligned with the stealthed creature sees it, the game pauses to let you know that they've been discovered. Wildlife will discover kobold thieves and ambushes for you, too.

Be careful with that giant cave spider. They're generally considered to be one of the most dangerous creatures in the game, though profitable (from their silk) if you can capture them.

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Originally posted by jaybud4:
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I suggest using five, as I've noticed that in the [D]epot Access screen, it takes away one tile AROUND channels/walls for whatever reason.
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This mislead me for a bit too, but in fact wagons are perfectly capable of traveling down three-wide corridors. Just think of the green as saying "the center of the wagon can go here".

It'd be easy enough to check - put "sew leather image" on repeat. Decorations have a tendency to accumulate on the same item, since it's the closest eligible item to decorate when the dwarf picks up the next decorate job. So if they do stack, and you have lots of different kinds of leather, then you should easily be able to get a single item with many images on it.

Wagon accessibility pathing starts from the depot and expands outwards until it hits an obstacle. So go to your depot, and hit D, then follow the green until it turns red. That should show you what's getting in the way.

If the stockpiles are not full, then items will not be binned. If the stockpiles are capped in how many bins they can use, then that number will not be exceeded. Finally, bins can't be used to store just anything. Notably, stones and wood are both unbinnable; the same goes for furniture.

Rain doesn't generate any actual fluid; it makes things wet but not enough to make 1/7 water, let alone anything that'd flow. Murky pools are meant to tell the game what to replenish with rainfall, but that feature hasn't been implemented yet.

Lightly-injured (still-mobile) dwarves will be able to deal with their injuries so long as you don't let them rest. But if they aren't moving on their own, then they're [non-]walking dead.