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I'm just hoping for more varieties in glass colours eventually. I want to eventually build a giant stained glass window in my grand hall. Oh well, I got gems for that purpose for now though.

Sounds like a pretty wierd problem, I usually pave over the aquifer breach area for oddities like that. Anyways have you tried digging a downstair on the icefloors then putting a new floor down and then taking it backup? Dunno if that'll work, but might be worth a try.

I don't use the embark finder. Habit from it being completely useless for so long. I do all my searching manually.

Not much going on with this mod I guess. Has Patchouli given up on it or just taking one of those long breaks from modding?

As for the what is Touhou question. Touhou is a video game series of verticle shooters otherwise known as danmaku or curtain fire games.

And here is a vid of touhou to show you. It's stage 4 of touhou 6, the boss of this one is Patchouli hehe.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNHgmjJAp-M

And last but not least *Bump*

A sideview of my average fort. In all the glory of my paint skills or lack thereof.

Well I do have a few tips for determining how many aquifer layers you have. You might find them useful, so here they are.

The soil readout: Little Soil, Some Soil, Deep Soil, Very Deep Soil; as far as I can tell corrosponds to how many soil layers there are. 1 2 3 and 4 respectively. Soil aquifers will only appear in places with 3 or 4 soil layers. If you have a little soil or some soil embark and it reads aquifer, you have a conglomerate or sandstone aquifer waiting for you, and stone layer aquifers are almost always multiple z-levels in size.

If you have deep or very deep, it's not as easy to tell what you are gonna have. But if the readout says clay instead of shallow clay, you have a chance at it being a single layer aquifer provided the clay layer is in layer 3 or 4, since most clay layer types can't support aquifers.

Thats pretty much all the tips I have for telling what you have at the embark screen. My next one is for when you have embarked.

So look at all the pebbles around on your embark, are they conglomerate or sandstone? If so, guess what, you have one of them as an aquifer. If the pebbles are anything else, you only have soil aquifers. And if you combine that with knowlege you gleaned pre-embark, you can plan accordingly for your aquifer situation.

One other caveat, sand deserts still seem to give me false positives sometimes. So keep that in mind when embarking on those.

Edit: Grammar corrections

I dive for the magma sea asap in most forts. I start with just a 1x1 or 2x2 up/down staircase straight down from the surface, detour as needed around the caverns and set up basic living/dining areas farms and forges jus above the sea. That should usually take me the first autumn/winter. I then go back to my staircase and start expanding it and redesign it into a big corkscrew ramp with the center hollowed out for use as a dodge trap. Goblins rarely make it down past the 1st or 2nd level of it before they take the shortcut to the bottom, and encounter the dwarven instant decelleration device, or in other words the floor.