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I don't understand why you need to micromanage stockpiles or overwhelm your haulers with other jobs.
You said that the criterion for infinite bolt storage was having an available space in a bolt stockpile other than the one the dwarf got the bolts from. Why can't you just make two ammo stockpiles which are each large enough to hold more ammo than you actually have, and will therefore always have available space?

Oh, yeah. That goblin is going to get hit by ten bolts, each of which zig-zags through his heart, both lungs, both kidneys, liver, stomach, and spleen... but he's going to live because they were wooden bolts instead of steel ones.

I don't think you're going to lose a lot by using lower-quality bolts.

I played around a bit.

It turned out that machine parts built on a natural ice floor would show "frozen here" where you normally see "active" or "inactive". The entire system would stop running, with all other parts reading "frozen elsewhere."
There seemed to be some bugs with the propagation of the "frozen elsewhere" designation, where it would sometimes remain in the system even after removal of the frozen part, requiring some parts to be removed and rebuilt to reset them.
Machine parts built on constructed floors, even ones made of ice, worked fine, as did parts built on natural stone floors.
This worked the same way whether things were built indoors or outdoors, including outdoor stone floors in a freezing biome.

Stone, stone blocks, plant fiber cloth, bones, shell, cut gems, rough gems. She already has 4 stones and 2 bones.
PS : I have everything but the rough gems.

Then maybe you should find some rough gems.

Or maybe its just because the ocean biome is always above freezing. 

Yes, I'd like to see a control for this. I understand that no water would ever freeze in Groovester's ocean biome, but what if there was actually a temperature difference between the ocean and the taiga rather than just a "water in ocean biomes can't freeze" rule?

The problem with pumping water to form ice is that gear assemblies will freeze in place below a certain temperature.

I've never seen or heard of that, could you provide a movie?

What are you talking about? 
I've been running regular 40d in OS X for the whole year since it was released.

Stop undermining by building a cantilevered aqueduct extending out over your moat to reach the entrance to invaders' tunnels, which can then be flooded.

I'll change how I do it to suit what's most convenient for the circumstances of the particular project, but the most important part is to always have some way to quickly drain your fluid projects when you realize they're not worth the FPS cost.
I've played a succession fort where I built a giant water fountain which killed the FPS and made the fort unplayable but was luckily able to be shut off easily with a lever, then another player did a ton of digging in the aquifer which killed the FPS and made the fort unplayable until heroic measures were taken to pump magma into the trouble area, and then another player designed a swimming pool in an awkward location with poor drainage which killed the FPS and made the fort unplayable and we gave up on it.