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Make sure the bridge is in the Raised position before you dump the stuff.  If you dump it onto the Lowered bridge, then the act of raising it will make a primitive catapult.

Also, when assigning ammo, does it do it for the whole squad or just per dwarf? Like, if I assign 250 bolts, does that mean each dwarf gets 250 or the entire squad splits them up?

The squad will split them up.

if you place a container or cabient in their assigned room will they use it and place things inside of it?

Cabinets -- yes.  Definitely.  You want cabinets.

Coffers/chests would theoretically be used for a dwarf's non-clothing possessions, like coins and amulets and toys and such, after the Economy starts.  Unfortunately, the Economy never starts now, due to bugs.  So, unless you're playing 40d or unless you're playing a future version of 0.31.x where these bugs have been fixed, I don't think there's any need for coffers in regular dwarves' quarters.

an easy way for farmplots is .. after you dig out the first layout try to create a makeshift well at first if you got a brook or river or large enough murky pools to tap (emptied out murkies can be covered with floor or sealed with walls afterwards to prevent access from outside /rivers can be accessed safely by fortification/channel combo)

after that just declare the well a water source and  build a walkway with channels next to it above your x*3 farmplot and keep pit/ponding each tile ..

That's almost exactly what I do.  I like to get a well in place ASAP because it becomes vital when you have wounded dwarves during winter months (or during a siege, etc.).  Once you have the well, which is the hard part, having some dwarves take water from it and dump it on the farm plots is simple, albeit tedious due to all the micromanagement.

The only difference is that I use 2x2 farm plots.

An "air moat" is actually more effective than a water-filled moat, although it doesn't look as nice.  More creatures can swim than fly, so a channel that's got nothing but air in it will keep out more creatures than one that's filled with water.  (You'll need to remove the ramps down inside it, though.  If the ramps are left in place, creatures can just walk across.)

Military dwarves will sometimes refuse to equip a single gauntlet or a single boot.

Hmm... actually, it seems I was slightly wrong.  (Or the game changed -- but more likely I was just wrong.)

When a dwarf steps in a pool of 2/7 water and puts all his blood there, he steps out of it with only water coverings, no blood on his shoes.

Likewise, when some other dwarf steps in the pool of 2/7 water which also has a pool of blood, he emerges with just water coverings.  No blood.

By contrast, when a dwarf steps on the floor grate that has a pool of blood on it (e.g. the grate underneath the waterfall), his shoes DO get bloody.

So, in short, waterfall = BLOOD and SPAM, and wipe-your-feet pool = GOOD.

So I guess the optimal design is to put wipe-your-feet pools before and after the waterfall, in order to keep the blood from getting to the floor grate.