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Gotta admit, Dfusion has some helpful, as well as odd thing for adven mode

If you smelt galena,  byproducts are lead and silver

1. Under military screen, equipment, highlight the wrestler in question, on the screen to the right, remove individ choice, type W to add a weapon of your choice. Unless you list a specific material, or a unique weapon in the stockpile, they will immediately go grab a weapon of that type.
2. The marksdwarve problem is easily solved, once you under stand the order Train. When you set them under Active schedule on alert screen, leave military screen, return, highlight that squad then type s to look at their schedule. To begin with, you will have only 2 schedules, Active, and Inactive.
 On the active schedule, every month has Train. This means that they will give demonstrations, spar,combat train, watch demonstrations. In your case, having two out of three, the third one with nothing to do, if it has bolts will do individual combat drills, for markstmen means weapon train(target practice). So now, all three are not getting much target practice in.
 Under either schedule, months that have no order,when any one does not have a job to do, will go target practice, as long as the bolts hold up.
 So, a good schedule for marksdwarves  under Active Schedule, on that yearly schedule is set 1 months order to Train, following two months no scheduled order. Repeat sequence for following months.
 Train order is still good. They can get dodging, shield work, miscellaneous object lessons.
When they run out of bolts, and you forget to produce them, least they will be training/individual combat in something. For bonus points, assign them a hammer when they get somewhat skilled in archery. They will train in hammer if no bolts are available. When they knock the poop out of a gobbo with the bow(BAD), least now they will be better skilled in it. You can always remove the hammer if you notice that they are practising with hammer, and not archery

 If there is not a addy weapon in stock, you do not have one. I have heard on the forums, in newest releases, they are rare.

Have heard if you tinker with ethics in the raws, you can get them to butcher sentinents, and use their bones, for what it is worth

Make cloth crafts, to free up cloth bins. Buy anvils with proceeds(melt). Heck, sell the meat, its tradeable.
 Make bone crafts, even armor if you are that desperate. With that much butchering, you are going to have beaucoup fat. Make a fat stockpile next to the depot. Then when you get ready to move trade goods, first chose sort by distance. Unload the fat on them.
 Another is to produce stone pots in the craftshop. They hold much more than a barrel.

Actually the best way to keep archers from going rambo, is to set up a alert to send them to a station(rally point). When a baby snatcher is detected, send civilians to the lever room, to close all exits. Meanwhile send archers to a rally point where they cannot detect hostiles. Let melee troops keep training, hopefully in a barracks near main entry point of your fortress. they will attack any hostiles that interrupt them.
 When gates are locked, send archers to their fighting positions. When you decide to open your tunnel of love for the invaders, send archers back to the rally point, then open it. This works well especially for enemy archer squads. Your archers are safe, as the invaders get acquainted with the nefarious traps in the tunnel. With alerts, you get more use out of archers, than the idea in the post above. Although its great when you have several archer squads.
 Several archer towers spaced around your fort, is a great defense.

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