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You may also have forbidden the materials the forge is made out of. Use the 't' command on the forge and see if any of its components are forbidden; if they are, then the forge is unusable.

Invaders never starve.

Your expedition leader is basically useless for the forseeable f uture. He might eventually decide to get out of bed. Lungs never heal but you only need one of them; he'll just get winded from time to time. The trick is convincing him to get out of bed.

Things to do with migrants:
 * More hauling
 * Soldiers
 * Megaprojects (large masonry designations)
 * Non-skill-reliant tasks (milling, tanning, butchery, furnace operating, animal training, etc.)

I've not experimented with the population cap much, but it always seems to work for me. Granted I haven't tried a hermit challenge.

Wooden and bone bolts have a 50% damage reduction applied before quality modifiers, compared to iron bolts. Same as any other weapon. Thing is, bolts have a ridiculous ability to score critical hits against vital organs, at which point the target is out of the fight anyway. Bone bolts also can be made in ludicrous quantities (40 from your standard orc, for example), which is helpful given the rate at which experienced marksdwarves fire them.

There's a list of required workshops on the wiki. Remember to build both magma- and non-magma versions when applicable.

What he means by boosting their speed is that he cheated to make his dwarves move faster.

Seeds go in bags. Seed bags can then be placed into barrels, but seeds do not go directly into barrels.

You want to plan your growth? Use the population cap settings in init.txt. Start out with a cap of, say, 15 dwarves. Once those 15 are ready for the next 15, you can up your cap to 30. Once those 30 are ready for the next 30, you can up it again...

Very simple, very straightforward.

Still, try enabling masonry on all of your haulers and seeing which stones they use to make those constructions.

Simple:

Stonecrafting takes over all Masonry workshop jobs and gets its own workshop ("Stonecrafter's workshop")
Carpentry takes over all Woodcrafting jobs
The old Craftshop is replaced by a Bonecarver's Workshop
Blacksmithing takes over all Metalcrafting jobs

Did I miss anything? This would make a simpler, more consistent job layout, in my opinion.

Yes, but would it be better to leave a "fallow" undug level between each lever of your towercap farms?

Put another way, does digging out the level beneath your farm more than halve your tree grow rate? If so, then stacking farms right on top of each other is counterproductive.