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 If your stockpiles are anywhere near magma or lava, even if they're safely far way from the substance proper, they're still at risk due to Fire Snakes.  Those little vermin will set things ablaze sometimes when they touch them.

 Most players use Goblin equipment as a source of iron, melting it down.  It's been playfully dubbed "Goblinite" as a result.  That's not much help to you at the moment, however, I'm sure.

 As for bolts, simply set all wooden/bone bolts to be dumped as soon as an attack comes, and your Marksdwarves will have no choice but to actually use decent ammo.

 For some stupid reason, corpses that are outside are almost always ignored when looking for things to butcher.  This is doubly annoying when you try to build a butcher shop outdoors, as those frequently fail to take jobs AT ALL, let alone allow you to butcher stuff that's outdoors.  The only real workarounds are to make sure that you always work with indoor butcher shops, and make sure that all animal corpses are stored underground.

 As for the problem with hunters not seeming to get this idea of "not being miserable all the time", that's a side-effect of their outdoorsman (outdoorsdwarf?) behaviour.  You basically have to disable hunting to get them to stop acting like your fortress interior is verboten.

 It is on the devlist, yes.  I'm not certain how it'll work out, but I think it was something like clothes being defined along the same lines that body parts are now (ie. each character has a set of clothes with individual articles, but the overall set of clothes can be transferred/modified en masse).  I know for sure you can set uniforms for the military soon (so you could have a squad that distinguishes itself by all wearing red cloaks).

 As for the pricing issues, well...  Back in Medieval times, wood really wasn't that highly valued, while the process of making clothes really was so complex that articles of clothing were considered very valuable.  Though what really made the prices soar was the dying process, since many dyes required very rare components.  Purple, blood-red, and deep blue in particular were so hard to come by and expensive that they became associated with royalty and wealth.

Hard to top a fractal pyramid (in more than one sense), but I can at least show how Towerscrape's going.

I had at one point intended to form a "carved from the living rock" fortress out of the biggest mountain ever genned (ie. not one construction in the entire place, but still a grand underground megafort), but that fell flat when I noticed that I was getting pretty laggy FPS on that map even with just 7 Dwarves.

 I can one-up that: I had a desert fort near a river I got sick of, so I flooded it from the highest floor on down.  It was amusing to watch as the lower floors filled up and the Dorfs sleeping down there realized their predicament.  A few tried to escape, only to find themselves swimming in fast-moving water, and they quickly sought refuge in someone else's room instead of trying to head upstairs.  Needless to say, 80% of that fort died of either drowning or starvation.  And it was gloriously Fun.

Water naturally evaporates when you leave it with no renewing source.  All you really need to do is set up a floodgate in such a way that it will assuredly block incoming water once your trap is flooded, and you'll be fine.

 That said, you also have the option of setting up a curious system like this:

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X = Floodgate
O = Wall
t = Trade Depot
 Then link up two switches: the first one locks the front 3 floodgates that the caravan enters through, trapping them.  The second lever opens the rear floodgate and lets all the water in.  Once you've drowned the traders, pull the second lever again to stop the in-flowing water, and pull the first lever once that's done to empty the trade depot of water more quickly than you could otherwise.  Just be sure you have a wide open space that you don't mind getting wet outside of the front of the depot.

 You missed the bit where I said their accounts are quite healthy.  None of the usual causes are at fault here; they're just being Dorfs.  Hell, I had one Dorf who got unhappy about having no work for 2 seasons in a row because he spent the first season On Break, and then proceeded to spend the next season chasing my mayor constantly as said mayor actually DID do work so he could have a meeting to complain about how he had no work last season.

 And no, there are no hunters in my fort.  Any Dorf who comes in with Hunting as a job, I turn it off immediately.  The last thing I need is a Unicorn invasion on my fort, which some witless hunter would inevitably cause.