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Yup,!!cake!! is great.Too bad that it's a lie...

"Quit now, and cake will be served immediately." ~ Portal

I just hit the popcap of 100 dwarves, so maybe it would be feasible to dump everything and atomsmash it, but like I said, the likelihood of getting ambushed seems to be extremely high on this map.

Something I've noticed about the goblins -- they generally attack in the third month of every season. What I do is put a patrol out at that time, and they scour the map, taking out ambushers before they have a chance to attack caravans.

The advantage that 12 has over 10 is that it is evenly divisible in more ways. Specifically, 12 = 3*2*2, and 10 = 5*2. So 12 can be quartered, or thirded, or halved or sixthed evenly, whereas 10 can only be halved and fifthed. So that's the cool part of a base-12 type system. 60 (as in the clock, or degrees of angle) is chief, being 5*3*2*2, and has many ways to subdivide.

The advantage that 10 has over 12 is that fractions and multiples of base ten are very easy to relate to.

Also, still raining.

We use the imperial system, and we buy 2-liter bottles of pop.
And of course drug deals are metric.

On-Topic: It's raining.

dead units stay as deceased

Then the dwarf in question died.

would a dwarf killing [say tantruming?] another dwarf change them from the fort dwarf to a hostile?

Yes, there have been reports of that happening, and is called a loyalty cascade; the killer becomes an enemy of the fort, and someone kills him, BUT he was still a member of the civilization so the person who killed him becomes an enemy, and so on. I haven't seen it happen myself though, but I usually nip tantrums in the bud, before they have a chance to cause a bunch of damage.

I give everyone Decent quarters, and they are generally Happy to Ecstatic, with a few Content. The military is mostly Content, with a few Happy and Ecstatic.

Like a plate that would be triggered by bulls and cows, but not by calves?

Build a plate and customize it's trigger range. If the animals in question fall into two different weight categories, then the trap can be set to trigger on the heavy one, but let the light one through.

Dwarves get disturbed by traffic, so having them path through eachothers bedrooms is not nice. 
Looks super purdy though!

I think the group of three smaller and one larger that share an internal door is part of a four-room noble's suite, that includes bedroom, office, dining, and tomb.