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1. The various animalman tribes don't repopulate, no. What you have on the map at fort start is what you get.

2. I believe it's the SKULKING tag that kobolds have that makes them not show up on the civ access page. That or it's the fact that they live in caves, I don't remember which exactly. Regardless, that appears to be intended behavior. They don't show up even if there's a half-dozen kobold civs that could theoretically get to you.

No-quality steel armor would probably be better than artifact pig iron armor. Pig iron is worse in more-or-less every way to iron (its impact and shear yield and fracture values are higher, though the elasticity value is lower; the first is bad, the second is good), so iron and bronze weapons will likely go right through it, even when it gets a deflection. Since all artifacts do is triple the deflection chance compared to a no-quality item, your artifact is 3x as likely to blunt copper or silver edged attacks than a steel breastplate, but gets next to no benefit against better materials and probably won't be very likely to deflect blunt attacks at all.

Did you wait until the dragon(s) laid a new clutch of eggs? It's unlikely to have any effect whatsoever on existing eggs, so you'd need, at minimum, a new set of eggs to be laid, and there's a better-than-even chance that you'd need a new world.

Note that if you block off the path with a wall it will keep the demons out as well, but it will cause massive FPS play due to a bug that makes them attempt to path into your fortress on every single 'tick' of the game.

This is also a myth, actually. The FPS drop from demons is due to their BUILDINGDESTROYER tag, probably due to them attempting to path to every accessible destructible building in the fort every tick and then attempting to walk each of those simultaneously, but if you close off all the paths, they'll eventually find blockage in and cancel all of those paths, causing FPS to return to at least close to normal. If you remove their BUILDINGDESTROYER tag before breaching the depths they'll cause no more FPS drop than any other large group of creatures.

Supposedly, the egg_size token affects how long it takes the eggs to hatch, and your dragons have very, very big eggs. Also, sometimes a clutch will not actually be fertilized, even if you have males of a species, and if not fertilized the eggs will never hatch. Try turning down the egg size and letting your female(s) lay another clutch and see if that helps.

Note that your dragons won't actually be very effective combatants for quite some time; they become sexually mature in 2 years, but still take 1000 to grow to full size. The BODY_SIZE:x:y:z tokens mean that at age x years and y days the creature is at size z, and yours still have the default 0:0:6000 and 1000:0:25000000 set, so they grow quickly but will never be the terrors (or meal tickets) you probably hope they'll be.

1. The first 7 dwarves always like working outdoors. Otherwise, it's an uncommon personality trait amongst the dwarven species. This is almost certainly intended, to showcase the fact that those 7 are the sort who would go out into untouched wilds to attempt to make a new home; everyone else who comes later comes to a place that has at least nominally been settled, so they don't need to lack hate of the endless sky so much.

2. Once you've selected a place for your fort, your fort remains there. There are plans to make it possible to extend a fort's influence further, but for now, your settlement's borders, as defined on embark, are what can be affected and viewed. You can see more of the world in adventure mode if you want, though, as adventurers can (in theory, at least) go anywhere within a generated world.

3. Farm for food and brew plants you grow. Having exactly one farmer who does nothing else but farm can provide enough plants to feed and booze a whole very large fort, while more than one farmer is actually less effective since less-experienced growers get fewer plants per seed, tile, and time and more farmers cause less skill gain for each of them. Around 20-25 tiles of farm plots should be sufficient for 100 dwarves. Your stills should be working most of the time, too, and for the first couple of years so should your barrel production to keep up with the stills.

If you know how to deal with them, they're not that bad at all. I actually prefer embarking on places with a single-layer aquifer due to how easy they make getting infinite water near the surface without significant FPS drain.