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Good question, I tried desalinization a couple days ago and I couldn't get it to work either.  I bet the wiki is out of date.  Or maybe it has to already contain some fresh water? 

Fisherdorfs brave death every day, just to haul in some turtle shells for their moody friends.  He probly saw the Titan and was like "sweet maybe I will get injured and not have to brave the carp pools for a while" 

They were likely trying to rush the enemy but couldn't find a path.  Set them to stay close to station and ensure the battle is over before they start to dehydrate. 

I believe they can't really do anything* and swim at the same time, so you trade training time for swimming time.  Still a good idea though. 

* I once ordered a 4 wide moat dug on embark.  My 2 miners fell in soon after.  Despite assigning water source zones, dumping booze barrels on top of them and ordering them to dig out more space to drain the water, they eventually both died of dehydration

+1 respect point if you can turn a gobbo back into each one of its component parts.  I think the highest I have ever done is like 6 out of 10 or 12.  Also, see http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=50624.0

With legendary planters it should take like what, 10 planted squares of pig tails the previous season to get 40 seeds.  Major textile mill implies that something is very wrong, you should have 200 after one successful harvest.  I think processing pigtails at a farmers workshop yields seeds, otherwise I wouldn't have enough for my 10x10 pig tail plot in my current fort. 

You don't happen to have fire snakes do you?  A whole bunch of seeds can fit in a flammable barrel...

I was going to say that you have some sneaky dorf that likes eating the seeds but even a few of those shouldn't make a difference. 

Relentless Assault assaults relentlessly.  It adds a handful of civs that hate you and attack constantly. 

Dig Deeper ads all kinds of new content, I like it alot.  New metal, creatures large and small, Orcs that hate you and siege early. 

As for making location more Fun, I have a couple worldgen strategies.  Increase the number of mountain regions (not tiles), increase rivers, possibly increase erosion cycles.  Increase (by 2-4 times at least) the number of evil tiles in various region sizes.  Increase volcanism variances up to 1600 (max) and up the minimum number of volcanos.  If you are hunting for the ever popular flux + magma combo, consider increasing the ratio of low (0-20) and high (80-100) volcanism tiles.  I believe that will reduce the amount of boring middle stuff like granite and gabbro that you find everywhere.  Look for tiny mountain regions of 1-10 tiles sitting in the middle of some other area, those often get eroded heavily and that can concentrate all the chasms and fun stuff into a handful of tiles right next to a flatland region.