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If I ever got a blind dwarf I would make him/her a marksdwarf. Just for the sake of seeing bolts flying in completely random directions.

Getting eye wounds is so damn hard though.

You could also try for the Waterbox challenge, where you use flood gates to actually build yourself a wall through use of fluid logic bugs.

I don't understand. What bugs do you refer to?

I often see natural brooks tile completely empty, fisherdwarves catching tons of fish, and a channel filled with water near it full of fish vermin, fisherdwarves catching lots of fish from that too.

I think the "fish" task doesn't actually require a fish vermin: it just creates a fish reducing a number somewhere deep in memory which tells how much fish is left.

The "catch live fish" task uses fish vermins however, and if my memory is not wrong I saw a fisherdwarf waiting over the brook for fish to catch (live fish i mean) lots of time getting nothing, and getting them quite easy from the cistern full of fish vermin.

If you're planning to make such a water-pusher, you should find a way to recover used water, as it eats water quite fast.

To make immigrants into your charm school without havin them meet workers, as soon as the migrant message arrives lock your workers inside the fort. Above the charm school there should be designated a meeting area over a retracting bridge, which is controlled from inside the fortress. When all the migrants are in the meeting area, pull the lever.

The only problem is if you want to use some of the migrants as actual workers, then drafting would be the easiest solution.

About preventing early tantrums, make sure your charm school area is a statue garden. This way parties will be organized, making dwarves happier.

I think it doesn't take much space to stick in some beds, a little masterfully engraved dining room, and optionally a small mist-generator. Artifacts can help boosting up room quality.

As long as no room is assigned to a dwarf, they will all gather at the statue garden while idle (and they will be most time). Make the garden small (3x3) so they are stuck together.

Masterful prepared meals and booze from a legendary brewer should send your dwarves to pure ecstasy, combined with all the above.

I noticed that wrestlers will almost always default to "punch & strangle" rather than breaking every joint and gouging out eyes like any adventurer would.

Considering how my pc is slow, I usually start a new fort. Or i run it on my 7 dwarves (plus 20 children...) fort, where I have pretty much everything ready.