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If you want flat embarks, then just mess around with the world gen params.  Set minimum and maximum elevations to about 280-310 and drop that elevation variability down.  Be sure to remove all ocean params (or you get infinite rejects) and all mountain peaks.  I can't remember if there is minimum low or mid elevation counts as well.  You'll need to zero those out as well.

I haven't tested it, but modding your drainage to be a bit low should give more sand.  However that may increase the number of aquifers.  Remember this bit is conjecture and I can't prove it.  I only know how to make flat lands.

I had an artifact dragon bone spear once.  Don't have that save anymore and I had no champion speardwarves because I feared stuck-ins and training accidents.

Don't make rooms for them to meet in.  Make a zone for the dwarves to use as a meeting area.  You won't have any pesky parties or the friends that cause tantrum spirals.

I'd look up the Grim Rust of Arenas in legends.  It is probably outside of the Fortress and is instead the Region.

It could deal with personality.  A hardworker might pick up a new job faster.  A slacker may prefer to put it off for a little while.

With a bit of experimenting with pocket worlds, I successfully depopulated all the major races, the sole megabeast, and all 3 semi-megabeasts.  I then climbed to the summit of the only volcano and jumped into the exposed magma pipe.  I died before I could kill any of it's inhabitants.

Yeah!  Imagine Cacame riding into battle atop a Giant Jaguar!  He uses his Steel Warhammer to strike down elves and avenge his wife's death.