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As far as I know, soap artifacts aren't possible, soap just isn't in the list for items moods can use.

But on the bright side, unicorn soap ramps and roads, or even make a building entirely out of soap.

It's actually a very good strategy to make the barracks your only entrance to the fort, and then get a lot of guards. Alternatively, the archery range makes a nice entry point as well.

I've found my guards try to rush out suicidally one or two at a time, trying to get equipment off a killed caravan guard or some other thing, then they die, and for each guard that dies, 2 others rush out to bury them, and take their stuff..Then they die, and 4 more rush out to bury them, and take their stuff...And then they die, and so on.

Undead megabeasts and the like are made at the start of worldgen, I'd assume the chance for them increases if you get a world with more evil in it.

As for the goblins, no idea, but be aware the demon leader itself will never show up to attack your fort.

For added fun, mod fire imps to be able to breed, there's usually a male and female in a pipe, which means there's plenty of time for them to make sure there's a lot of valuable bones. Fire snakes are nice to dissect at a butcher's workshop, especially if you feel like just making loads of rock junk is cheating to the trade.(Animal traps with meat catch them)

Besides that, lava creatures never really leave the pipe area, and any that do will be on their own, a single cage trap at the entrance tunnel will stop that. If there is no tunnel, not an issue, they're wussies anyway, a child can wrestle a fire imp to death, the problem is the fire they can cause.(Other magma creatures are a bit stronger, but still no match for an armed dwarf)

If you're worried about them getting into your moat, use magma-safe materials to install grates before filling, or use a pump, they can't go through that.  I expect there to be more/stronger magma creatures later, possibly even next update, with the underground stuff and all. Some players(Me included) believe fortifications don't work at all, but it's just one piece of rock anyway.

If you are cooking food, turn off plump helmets for cooking, since that destroys the seed that you would otherwise get from eating it raw or brewing, this can be done in the z-kitchen menu.

Besides that, if you really need a harvest to be brought in, you can go to the (o)rders screen to set it so everyone can harvest, children and nobles will help gather the crops.

Edit: And welcome to the forum

Migrants respect traffic designations when pathing somewhere, as far as I know, but they will completely ignore it when spawning at the map edge, a high traffic edge tile appears to have the same chance as a restricted tile.

As for op, use the last dwarf to make a magmaduct over to where the spider is, then have him take his revenge by burning the spider with the liquid goodness.

The royal guards will also send a few of them to guard the tax collector when he collects taxes, which he actually does.

And I've heard the regular guards+guard captain will try to go out to places a dwarf died recently, to check if it was a normal death, or if they have to take down a threat to the fortress. I've never had this happen, my dwarves don't die, they make other things die.

The real problem is that eventually, meat food sources can be exhausted, and without intervention the children of peasants do not have the farming labor enabled, so eventually when the first generation dies off, the children will not farm and will eventually starve to death.

Just so you know, it takes 150 years or more for a dwarf to die of age, that's a lot longer then most fortresses are old. And without farming labour children, and everyone will still harvest when it's set like that, in the (o)rders menu