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So... not having a sheriff makes your hammerer not hammer dwarves?

Yep, that's right. The hammerer only goes Hammer-Time when your guards didn't do justice or what they think it is. If there are no guards, there is no not-serving-up-justice and your hammerer doesn't do shit.

My current map was quite gold heavy so now i intend to construct a golden tower starting at 3z from the bottom. i will probably carve away about 4-5 levels on the top of the mountain to make it an even surface.

Even surfaces are for elves. Building into the mountain is civilization!
Well, at least dwarven civilization.

I really like the idea of more complex farming and the need to irrigate your farm. Maybe, you'd get an announcement when one of your farm plots needs water and it zooms to this plot automatically. This would be really handy because one might not look at the date very often and it would decrease the chance of having a large fortress starving because your plants died.
But I'm absolutely against the idea that too much water destroys your plants. I had a fortress with more than 100 dwarves and they needed more than half a minute to pull the damn lever! The gobbos got in, but they weren't a big threat. But imagine your farm plot filling up with water and you want to stop the water flowing and dozens and dozens of dwarves walk past the lever not pulling it, hereby destroying your whole farm!
Not good, man, not good...

About bathing: YES! I imagine that your dwarves will prefer a bath (which you place over open space with water below as an activity zone), but if there isn't a bath, they'll try bathing in a river, a lake or something. If there's carp, that's too bad. It's just like with drinking and wells. These baths would be public baths, but some (or most?) nobles would require an own bath tub which they fill with water from a bucket. Of course, you could also place tubs in the quarters of non-noble dwarves and bathing in a tub will generate a more happy thought than bathing in a public bath. Dwarves prefere their own tub if they have one, but public baths would also train your dwarves in social skills.
And soap would not be necessary, but it will generate an even happier thought and washing off dirt, vomit and stuff like that works faster with soap. It would be convenient if you could allow or forbid certain tubs to use soap, so that your civilians don't use the soap made for the nobles. Or vice-versa, if you like. ^^ I don't know how you could change this preferences for a public bath because activity zones don't have preferences, but there's maybe a way around it.

If you just forbid his hammer, wouldn't he still be carrying it?

I have no idea, I haven't even played it.
But from what I read here in the forums, they are active and will work on your adventurer.

I'm sure, we would need an interesting seed with many underground rivers, magma, chasms and the like. More danger = more losing = more fun!

Profit indeed! This is my plan for the barracks and the watchtowers, too. Under the watchtowers, there are weapon, armor and ammo stockpiles and adjacent to the stockpiles, there are the barracks and maybe a food stockpile. I don't want my marksdwarves to run around hauling food when I've got an ambush at the front door.

Well, I don't think it should spawn in a river. That wouldn't make much sense. But you could catch one and throw it into a river.
Would the creature walk on the bottom and survive? That would be kind of cool. If it's possible, you could theoretically make a crab and let it walk on the bottom of oceans and such. I know that crabs breathe, but I don't want them to drown immediately.
Just a random idea, not really fitting for this thread. I just wondered. ^^

Hmm, why is there the [SPEED] tag missing? Or is it unnecessary? What is the creature's speed if it doesn't have this tag?