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I'm not quite sure how Dwarves can extract it from garnierite so easily (a maximum of 34% nickel content by weight does not a compelling ore make), but these are the same alcoholic manic-depressives that can build an inverted fractal pyramid, so what do I know?

That's because you're looking at it from a Age of Fairy Tales standard where the only ore we have left is the stuff dwarves wouldn't even use as a paperweight. Sure, garnierite has about a 34% yield at most now, but back in the day (before the end of the Age of Heroes anyway), it was pure nickel.

Make a giant nickle with Urist Jefferson on one side and a castle on the back.

those undeads are benign, meaning they wont attack, just scare the crap out of your civilians (bad thought: haunted by a ghost recently/lately)
they can float through any constructed thing (like constructed/nonnatural walls, floodgates and closed doors)

Besides the notion of unburied dwarves coming back and destroying them with silver weapons, couldn't this be more easily accomplished by creating a ghost vermin that teleports around its biome rather than having the ability to path through a constructed object?

Go to the workshops, hit 'k', and reclaim the stone that your masons' workshops were made out of. That should clear it up.

Forbidding stone through the stock screen forbids workshops made out of that stone; it'd be easier to change things through the economic stone screen as you don't have to worry about what the stone was already used for.

I had one embark that was the shore of a lake with a river about two thirds of the way down the lefthand side of the map. My wagon was right on the shore of the lake; my dwarves moved around for a few seconds and then the game locked up for several minutes. At first, I thought, oh great, everything thawed out at once as I've had this happen before whenever a lake froze or thrawed out.

After it finally started going again, I noticed the lake was gone. Well, sort of. Apparently the river itself was three or four z-levels under the surface of the lake and the result was that the lake flowed offscreen enough that its surface fell to the same level as the river. So there was the lake surface several levels down with 7/7 water on most of the surface. Considering that the lake was about half the map or better, that's a lot of water leaving the map at the same time.

Just go into the raws folder and remove the [AQUIFER] tag from any entries in the inorganic_stone_layer.txt and inorganic_stone_soil.txt files. Any worlds generated after will be pain in the aquifer free.

Irrigation is easy if the biome freezes during winter. Just dig out rooms for the farms on the top level, channel holes equal to 1/7 the size of the room, and dump water from above starting in late autumn. The 1-2 deep water will freeze since it's outside which will generate enough water to flood the entire room to depth 1 when spring rolls around.

The C is where I put my channel, and it has a blue down arrow on top of it which I take for a downward slope. I've tried removing upward slope but that doesn't seem to work, and I can't put a door there. Can I then put a floodgate there instead? You also mention flooring over it, I don't understand how to do that, could you elaborate?

Remove upward slope removes a slope from the z-level it's on. The only way to remove a slope from the level above is to channel out the walls it is in contact with, but that'll just create more slopes. Since you don't want to use it anymore, it'll be better to just wall it off. You could put a floor there by pressing b-C-f and then putting a door or floodgate there after the floor is build, but it's probably better to just wall it off (b-C-w). The less outside entrances you have, the better generally speaking. The last thing you need is a dragon or Titan flying down into the pool and walking in through your back door.

level -1 Storage. Ideally my finished goods would be right underneath the trade depot, and then the rest of the storage areas would be laid out to be right above the appropriate workshop that is below them. Additionally the farm level would probably be here as well, right next to the main food storage.

level -2 Workshops of all kinds. Also, potentially the animal pens and such. Maybe the dining room as well, although that might go up to level -1 near the food.

Everybody builds in their own way and it's best to go with whatever you feel most comfortable with. There's no right or wrong way to design a fort really. I will say, though that you'll make trading go a lot faster by digging out a stairwell directly next to your trade depot. One good option would be to build five down staircases on the side of the depot opposite from the tunnel that leads to it, and have up/down staircases directly below.

It's amusing when you get a mason who has a grudge against another dwarf as that seems to make it much more likely that they'll crank out statues of the latter dwarf surrounded by things that they hate.

This is a fine statue of Urist McUrist, Sarvesh MacSarvesh, and fire snakes. Urist McUrist is surrounded by the fire snakes. Urist McUrist looks terrified. Sarvesh MacSarvesh is giggling in the background.