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I try to design maps that have more of those itty bitty little mountains in the middle of some other terrain.  It really concentrates all those fun features into a few tiles while still allowing a big chunk of flat land with possibly different rocks.  More initial and final mountain ranges, more rivers help.  More erosion cycles helps, although it also seems to result in some oddities, like I once had embark sized almost square mountains ~2 tiles apart, instead of just being some kind of ridge thing. 

And yes, everyone sooner or later figures out their own set of worldgen voodoo magic to get stuff they want all in the same place. 

I bring an anvil, some copper and some coal and forge stuff on site.  Thats mostly because I play modded though, I can't guarantee the first caravan won't get stomped by a herd of SKELETAL DINOSAURS on the way in.

In vanilla I would just bring more wood or coal or flux, or if those are all present on the map then a couple hundred turtles and some whatever.  How many people actually forge weapons and armor before the first caravan? 

Lies.  What dorf would not willingly wade into magma so that their brothers and sisters may live in a cast obsidian spire?  What beardless coward would stand before the citizens of HelmedCrafts and say "we have dug exactly deep enough and should stop"

Dwarvenly dwarfs know whats important and care for little else.  Children are optional, booze and dining rooms and turtles are not. 

Oh thats why its called the steel castle of fire.  Nice moat and powerplant and underground habitat by the way!  I never have patience for that sort of stuff. 

Anyway thats the problem with vanilla.  Everyone wants a small map in some rocky desert glacier with lava rivers flowing down into exposed glowing pits while skeletal whales and goblins toss bodies into your moats until the miasma is thick enough to walk across.  Sadly that sort of expedition to hell isn't really implemented yet

The best map I ever got was a terrifying major river with zombie hippos and some skeletal carp.  The carp swarm across the land and I used them for civilian wrestling practice and the zombie hippos just sat there and ate all the caravan guards every couple seasons.  At some point the creatures started to run out and the river caused lag so I abandoned.   

Well it looks like a bug rather then a same sex relationship, since they both had husbands that died at one point and remarrying doesn't seem to happen yet.  Actually, it just looks like the King died and was replaced by Erith.  Since she was previously married to someone who died, no new consort was appointed and Muthkat just kept the position by default.  I think there was a bug at some point where monarchs would show up in fortress mode with inherited consorts they weren't married to, maybe this is it. 

Then again, Mayor of an important city + Queen consort adds up to a pretty important position, so it could be some kind of not fully implemented compromise or power sharing agreement.   

(42) Wrestling practice for my braindamaged sharpshooters. 

There are some things you can't buy, I think furniture, sand, vials, water and certain special materials.  So no I don't think you can buy windows Glass might be available in the upcoming version though.