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You can use them to automatically dump certain types of items down chutes, without having to do any micromanaging.

I tried to wall my dwarfs in, but I got overrun very time before I moved at least enough food for a year inside.

Embark with 18 pieces of wood.  Turn carpentry on for all the non-miner dwarfs.  Have the miners dig a two or three tile series of stairs down right next to the wagon, while the other dwarfs construct a wall around the wagon + stairs.  When there's only one tile left to construct for the walls designate a meeting area in what you've managed to dig underground, to get everyone inside, and put in the last piece of the wall.  This will protect you from everything but fliers and evil rain/mist, giving you time to move stuff from the wagon underground, at which point you can block off the stairs to the where the wagon was.

Some thoughts on the interface:

1) When you designate a plot to grow (for example) plump helmets, it should automatically set the minimum number of buckets of water and logs needed per harvest, based on the size of the plot; you can then tweak the numbers down if you want to conserve resources at the price of sub-optimal growing.  Similarly, if you want to mono-crop cave wheat, it should automatically set the amount of fertilizer you'll need to add.

2) There should be some lists of crop-rotation schedules that the Dwarven civilization has found to be useful, and you can just select one of these to use it for a plot, rather than having to always manually set up crop rotations yourself for each plot.  You could also create and save you own rotation lists, similar to embark profiles.

3) There should be a site-wide farming resources screen, to tell you how much of each type of resource you're using per year/season, and at what rate you're leaching out nutrients if you're not using enough crop rotation and/or fertilization.  It could also be used to set up defaults for resource usages as done in point #1.  For example, you could set it so that when a new crop is designated the automatic setting for bone meal is only one half of what it required for the crop, and you'd have to manually increase it if you wanted more.

Once tamed, you can transfer the vermin to a normal cage, then install the cage in the bedroom of a dwarf who likes that type of vermin.  The dwarf will get happy thoughts from seeing it every visit to the bedroom, without having the problems of it being a pet.

By the way, it looks like we can easily move minor quantities of magma anywhere now, without pistons/pumps. Just fill some minecarts with it and assign them to be emptied where you need. Three minecarts must be enough for magma forge.

Can you do the same with wheelbarrows?

Of course, in the event of invaders turning up at the fortress gates, they would go straight ahead and fuck some goblin shit UP.

Seems like that would be too useful, at least if it was guaranteed.  If it didn't hang around, but only visited the fortress site infrequently to check up on its shrine and pick up tribute, then it could fight invaders.  Or it might decide that it doesn't want worshipers so pathetic they can't fight off some goblins, and never come back again.

You might want to consider having a small plot of quarry bush.  On the downside, they require processing, need bags to process, can't be brewed, and must be cooked before being eaten.  On the plus side, they produce five times as much food as plump helmets.  Also, if you ever want to make soap, you can press a quarry bush seed to get oil and use that, rather than having to slaughter and animal to get its fat.