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So you're telling me we're going to need 24 of your computers to fully utilize the alphabet.
'Yo Dawg, I heard you like typing! So I put a keyboard in your keyboard so you can type while you type!

Also, you should literally make it a perfect sphere. And it should hover 6 z-levels in the sky, with only supports keeping it up.

Broseph, start sacrificing peasents to Armok, master of the FPS.

"Well Mummy, I heard that Adamantine made a really great gift for Mother's Day, so I made you these!"
"Aww, thank you! Now I can go bash in a Goblins head with Zorashklllnithik, The Milk of Gleaming Elephants!

Okay, you won't get any full-scale invasions until you've got 80 pop.
Having said that, your BEST bet in the beginning isn't to do the basics-If you've got a stream, you've got food. All you need is a farm for booze, and a stream for food.
They don't need bedrooms yet, that's optional. Begin laying out the whole Fortress. Take defense into account. In fact, you should probably design a unique defense system for every section of the Fortress.
Don't worry about stockpiles; for Food stockpiles, a good idea is to make it the same size, but span Z-levels. This also makes is a perfect center for your Fortress activities.
Refuse piles should be made INSIDE with a door. Don't let it go outside.
Stone won't effect anything. Trust me. Don't even bother to think about it. If it really annoys you, go get the Crafter to make pot pots out of it.
Wood, eh, that's sorta going to be a problem later on, when you don't want to send your idiots dwarves into the Forest, to go be terrified by a Raccoon. At about that point, you should dig down, breach a cavern, close it up, and watch your farming space sprout trees around it. Note: All Farms should be indoors.

Eh, in that case, use their murderous rage to create a better future for the Fort..Unleash them against your Nobles.

That would be the problem, yes.
You'd need to put in a delay for it to work. Either that, or two separate Levers, carefully timed.

Easier? Yes.
Until they, oh, I dunno, REACH THEIR DESTINATION.