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I do the same as above but I have sub-courtyards that can have a bridge raised to allow my dwarfs to clean up in peace. I grow my own trees or designate 1 dwarf with no necessary skills or lineage to both cut and haul wood. You can set up animals behind green glass that will spot most ambushes before they get to any vulnerable necessary redundant animals.

Well you can strip their weapons and then pit them into an arena for your dwarves/ monsters to fight.

I use my marksdwarves to shoot from a fortified bunker on a z level above the enemies. If I were to use a kill order instead of a station order my marksdwarves would follow fleeing goblins out of this area. Use station orders unless you have something rampaging IN your fort.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=122728.0
second page of this sub-forum. In addition a search will provide you with an abundance of additional solutions. Or the wiki etc.

My solution is to kill off entire migrant waves if I do not want them. I also increment my pop cap as I expand. Put your dwarves to use in your military as well as additional haulers. Turn off your hauling labours for those dwarves you would rather have their time spent making crafts, etc.

There are many things that you can do with minecarts. My suggestion is to play around and test as much as possible. Find standard solutions for given problems and use these in future builds. It really is not so hard to do a variety of awesome things. Regarding questions
1) I do not know but if you find this happening to you, put extra horizontal tracks between down trackramps.
2) Use powered rollers. Best results with easiest set up. Look at tinypirate on youtube. He has a logic system that is crucial for really complex minecart systems.
3) Explained very well already
4) Explained very well already
5) I have a template that fills very well. I am not home now so I cant link to it but I have some ideas you can try:
i) Assume your velocity when entering a fluid will be 0. Do this so you can avoid skipping when using a high velocity repeater.
ii) To do this put a wall in between a fill point and a leaving point. I have found that it is easiest to have more time in between entering and leaving fluids to enable to system to fill it.
iii) make sure you have a roller at all points in a fluid to avoid getting your cart stuck.

I draft them all and make them go to a bridge above my misty, artifact full, caged animal full, engraved dining room that is open to sunlight. In the middle are glass windows and spike traps set to repeat. My dwarves no longer care about anything, and my migrants are no longer a problem. If you really dont want those migrants you can always lock them out. Make a minecart jump that will take gathered plants to the fortress until goblins kill your migrant wave. I like to use my dining room because i can take them right away to thier casket.

You should read up more on how the military system works. Check the wiki and search the forums. I do not want to give you the wrong info as I am tired, but I can tell you:

quads
[a] - squad 1
[m]ove
[enter]

will station all of your dwarves at that point. More advanced ways of handling this can be found on the [m]ilitary screen. It is a bit much if you do not know the nuances of it though. Make sure to cancel your move orders after the siege as to avoid the bad thought of being on patrol for too long.

Or you can weaponize them... tehehehe