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Awwwwwwww!

I can imagine Ingish there getting hell from the wif, not to mention threats of "it's me, or the dog!"

Supposing that I wanted to run an Adventure game in the "same" world as a current (non-abandoned) Fortress game; would this be acheivable simply by copying and slightly modifying my region.txts (and abandoning the fort in the duplicate world, obviously)?
After retiring my adventurer(s), would I then be able to copy the new information written while playing in adventure mode over to the original fortress game, or would this likely cause weird phenomena and TIME PARADOXES (paradocies)?

Ta!

I've seen lazy recruits. Try setting them to "sleep in barracks" or "sleep in room", and try giving each dwarf their own squadron (one or both of these seemed to work for me, unfortunately in my desperation to get them to do something useful I didn't take a more scientific approach to solving the problem).

I hope that works... there's nothing more annoying than lazy dwarves!

Are there any conditions in which clothes do not degrade over time? Will an item of clothing remain in perfect condition so long as it's not being worn or outside, or do these factors merely accelerate the process?

Eh, I don't think I've pulled off anything particularly extravagant in terms of engineering. Some of my well-feeding tunnels have stretched quite far in the past, and in my current fort I've thawed a brook and two large lake/glaciers at either end (the brook is drinkable/fishable, but rather irritatingly the lakes still have an ice "floor" on top, so are only good for skating and re-enacting the frozen pond fight scene from The Four Musketeers)
...not water- or magma-related (though I do plan to incorporate a well and magma forge/smelter), but I'm in the process of carving out a 17z-tall, 20ø natural rock pillar into a secondary bastion to guard the most frequently-assaulted entrances to my standing fort; naturally, it includes restricted underground access to all other perimeter fortifications

Yeah, it hasn't been a problem.  My huntergot wounded and they've been pouring water down him to encourage his return to active hunting.  the penalty of being wounded = no booze

I'd actually never thought of it that way before. Hmm, "dwarven water torture"?

what level of skill do you have to have in order for the spears not to get stuck?

I think it just happens sometimes, regardless of skill (or weapon quality). Be sure to give some training in wrestling, so your dwarves don't keep disarming themselves.

You don't even need to buy the cages. Just dump the corpses from the stocks screen.

Oh, wow. These traders really do have poor standards (and they're coming to my fort year in, year out... which makes sense, I suppose).

I may just go on buying the damn cages, anyway, as some entrances to my fort would be indefensible (until my miners pick up the slack) if they weren't peppered with traps. Plus, apart from the wood and flux (glacier fort), they're about the only bloody thing the merchants bring with them that I've any use for... and I've got to do something with all these (narrow giant cave spider silk trousers)!