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On a possibly related note I also noticed that smoke from that waste disposal seems to appear at the entrance to my fort whenever I burn things. Is this normal it is a very long way away. Is there some sort of rift in space between my magma pit and the entrance to my fort?

I'll just mention that this is a sometimes appearing known 'feature', if a caged thing gets tossed into the magma with cage and all, it may return to where it ran into the cage trap, so if you capture a berserk dwarf with masterwork items in the middle of your workshop area, then set him to be pitted into magma, there is a chance he will appear in the middle of your workshops again, wearing his masterwork stuff, but now also on fire.
There is a chance a lot of goblins you have caught are actually the same ones you pitted into the magma.

(This info is from a different thread I've seen somewhere, just thought I'd mention it)

As for cage traps, I always think of them like a pole standing at an angle holding up a cage, goblins run through it, push the pole away, get caught. Or when inside, a large red X on the ground with a cage suspended above it. This would explain why kobolds have trap-avoid.

I've started to work on draining 6 z levels of ocean using only pumps a while back.

Turns out, if there's still water under a square it will not be drained completely, the 1/7 water that is still there will keep going in all directions, and it can(And will) push dwarves and building materials down the other 5 z levels of water.(Dogs however, seem perfectly fine with swimming around)

Not only that, but it also seems having 1/7 water sloshing about there stops construction because of dwarves claiming the building site is submerged, I guess the 1/7 water keeps coming together on the worst moments to make 2/7 right when I need something done. Not to mention that dwarves with no job loved standing on the most dangerous parts and falling into the water to drown, lost at least 2 legendary masons that way.

Now I'm using plan B, apply magma(To water to make obsidian walls, then drain what's inside it)
Too bad, I wanted to do this without making chunks of obsidian anywhere except a few engraving spots in the completed fort.

In another fort, I had a small obsidian factory that wasn't sealed off properly, and right next to the dining room.

Give the goblins a ridiculously high homeotherm and sever on breaks. Your dwarves won't mind moving in and living their lives knee-deep in burnt goblin remains.

..And your marksdwarves will appreciate the bone bolts, and the traders will appreciate the narrow GCS cloth, and maybe the other stuff goblins leave behind.

As a note, medium worlds made from the create world button without entering parameters always stop at 200 from my knowledge.

Try going to the advanced worldgen to change the mentioned megabeasts dead percentage, or the year it starts checking, that is usually the cause of it stopping at that time.

While you're at it, you can also try to get other things about the world to change to better suit your needs, more evil and more mountains for example increases the chance of goblins having the rare beak dogs and trolls.(The goblin civ actually needs to find those creatures in their home, and they only exist in evil locations)
More good will help you make happy dwarves with the most expensive booze there is made of sun berries.
More savagery allows for..Well, savagery, the wiki has info on what each setting does.

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(But keep in mind the leader usually has many friends.  Him dying may cause tantrums.)

Yes, this is very important to remember if you are killing a leader, my current fort's mayor has roughly 60 friends out of 110 dwarves in the fort. If you want to look up the consequences of such a dwarf losing his/her life, check out 'tantrum spirals', 'tantrum', and to prevent it,  having a fortress guard actually helps stop tantrum spirals, as dwarves coming out of jail get a very powerfull happy thought about being free, and those that went insane(Berserk) get killed quickly by the guards.

http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Tantrum

I suggest you keep a nice bed ready for him, a bucket for water, and some food nearby.

As long as the other dwarves take care of him he will most likely get better within a year..Unless it's a spine injury, then you should have his bed double as drowning chamber.

On the topic of woodcutting while being sieged, since the original question has been answered, if you have a lot of woodcutters(Like my latest fort, counting 15 of them), then it is perfectly fine to just ignore the siege and keep cutting.

As soon as job cancelations are reported, draft the woodcutters, if they're worthy of being in your fortress they will survive, if not, you get a shiny new axe for a dwarf that is worth it.

I'll just mention, for the sake of the topic title, yes, even as little as 1/7 water can and sometimes will push dwarves.

I found out the hard way with a partially drained section of ocean, a baby dwarf, and a legendary mason.

1/7 water that is moving around will shove that legendary with 20 friends into 3z levels of water. Fun.