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I'm not sure about the new version, but...

you can build bridges all the way to the map edge, this lets you do elevated highways (only path from depot to edge is elevated.

You can also use these to make 'walls' on the map edge, just set the impassable part on the edge, install a mechanism, and lever it up to make some impassable terrain.

I believe that practical time travel is an impossibility.  What I mean by practical is that you can travel significant distances in time and space (unless time is somewhat anchored to mass, in which case, traveling back in time but not space doesn't mean you end up in the cold vacuum* of interstellar space).

My reasoning is thus: Historical events of note are not overrun with tourists, and there are lotteries where nobody wins.

If something can be done, it can be done again, and since time extends for a very, very long time, if practical time travel was possible, we'd be overrun.

*note: vacuum isn't cold.  It isn't anything which is the point of being a vacuum

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Now, to get back on the topic of infinite recursion:  I hope you're not trying to get the universe to take a Core Dump.

Hmm... 

I have samples of copper, bisthmuth, hematite, and pyrite sitting on my desk, does that count?

I have three cats.  Two of them adopted me and were brought inside (and moved from Texas to North Carolina) as a result.

In case you're not up to randomly searching for something that you may or may not have the right keywords to find...

Dwarf fortress assumes your embark is square when it decids where stuff comes from when they enter your map.  As such, rectangular embarks behave ... strangely... when something is supposed to spawn along a short edge.

They came from the middle of your map, because is your map was square, that's where an edge would be.

Also, you might want a 2-tile wide wall so that if you ever decides to put marksdwarves up there, you can build one tile wide fortifications without issue.

So yes, magma and ice can mean infinite water.

This is because 1/7 water becomes an icy floor, and 2/7-7/7 water becomes an icy wall, and an icy wall melts to become 7/7 water.  So you can gain a maximum of 5/7 water/tile each freeze cycle.

I read a thread about someone who had a glacier at the edge of a biome and so the edge melted for a month or two out of the year, which mean the glacier actually expanded because the leading edge would re-freeze into more ice than it started with.

Though the trade liaison doesn't always spawn with the wagons, so he could still end up on the opposite side of the map from your guards.

Yes.  It will.

As a general rule, Constructions can only be destroyed by cave ins and the Remove Construction designation.  Everything that's NOT a construction (stuff lying around, place furniture, such as grates and doors) will be destroyed by magma if it's not magma-safe.  However, this is only if the magma makes it into it's tile.  So a wooden door can hold back magma indefinitely, until someone opens it.  Then the magma gets into the tile with the door, and sets the door on fire.

If, for some reason, you need a support to be submerged in magma without failing, you need to make it from something magma-safe (iron, steel, nickel, bauxite, ect).  Also, if you need that support to be remotely removed by a lever, the mechanism you use in the support must also be magma-safe - with means it has to be made of bauxite or raw adamantine.  The mechanism in the lever doesn't really matter, unless it's also going to be submerged in magma at time.

If you don't ever need the support to deconstruct, just make a wall Construction out of whatever rock (or wood!) you want.