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Aww - it appears we have a Stray Hydra following our dungeonmaster around...

Is it? I can't say for sure but I don't think it was DM who tamed it. Hydra was caught by Cheddarius and tamed during my reign. Please make sure it doesn't share fate with our first dragon.

Despite the anarchy, could you slip in some orders to have excess stone destroyed? I guess that won't influence the current state of chaos too much, but it would make the fortress a bit more playable.

By the way did anyone notice that there are 2 thousands or so of mechanisms? I suggest they be treated as stone too.

for trading.

What trading? Are you talking about seasonal garbage disposal services arriving every season?

My hospital is just a bunch of beds, for everything else just create a specified stockpile.
Keeping stuff in hospital is aimed to ensure that there will be something to tend wounded even if clothier goes on sewing spree obliterating  ten-year reserve of cloth. That's never gona happen unless you want really many dresses.
So to make sure your hospital is loaded place stockpile which accepts only splints near it, make sure it's the only one which accepts them. Place your clothing industry relatively close to hospital, probably you should disable auto-loom in work orders.
And finally, soap. Create stockpile that accepts only it, place channels with 2/2 or 3/3's water at every entrance to that stockpile.
That won't stop them trying to grab soap but you'll get only one message per dwarf. If that's still a lot of messages you probably should search for source of contamination.

As for why it ended up in dump, did you have any dumping operations at that moment? Sometimes I find ores different from goblinite or humanite on battlefield because I activate my military in the middle of hauling. I've once seen a dwarf dragging a barrel of booze to battle. My hypothesis is that they didn't drop soap immediately after spamming and proceeded to dump some crap.

Colossi can not learn, so he'll never learn how to swim, and won't improve combat performance over time. In addition to no regen this means he'll only get worse, so use him wisely before he'll get tattered. Also, archery target isn't the brightest idea, my adventurer colossus has met his end after several encounters with archers which led to fracturing both of his arms.

Not like these were my pals or relatives but George Washington and Vladimir Lenin anyone?

However most of the time I just give then number, this way it's much easier to distinguish my dwarves and fps burden spawned by RNG. Heck, I really grow attached to them not that single death is unacceptable but I've savescumed an armorer fey mood recently beause I've lost full squad of massons chasing deer in the forest. (Seriously those deer killed all 7 of them and I've reverted)
Maybe I'll get a long lasting fortress one day and then if I get a message like: '17' weaponsmith died of old age I'll be like:'Dammit, he was a good guy. He came to this fort as useless potash maker, I remember placing additional coffin when he was hauled to a hospital after encountering siege, and so on and so on..'

You can put windows behind fortifications to protect them from building destroyers. And put rising bridges between window and said fortifications. Dwarves still will be scared away by hostiles and thats the only thing that makes the windows different from the wall so technically you still get nice windows. By the way, see if ranged units attempt to shoot at the enemies behind them. (I believe I saw that in my fort but further science required.)

You are getting river milkfishes or oceanic milkfishes?

It's ocean ones, sorry I don't have the save when they're on map, but my fort is very young, have 40 dwarves, not too much stone, and is regularly cleaned with dfhack, so I'm pretty sure it was them. I'll put those numbers back and upload save when next wave of them arrives.
Do undead share those settings with normal animals? Because 100-150  undead tunas could literally siege you. However I haven't seen any fine embark with evil ocean in last 20 worlds I generated.

+ Inedible body parts and seeds will no longer rot.

Does it mean we'll need to haul them to trash compactors once again? Or we always had and now they just remain the same while we're doing it? (I hadn't paid much attention to refuse piles)

+ Made large trainable creatures inedible and require a combination of meat consumption, alcohol consumtion, water and sleep depending on the creature.

We now can't butcher elephants? 

+ Elephants & poisonous pets require booze

Poisonous pets? Which are these?

+ Dragons & hydras require meat, booze and sleep

  I really like this one.

Reason being the high amount of wildlife a fort can assimilate and set loose on sieges with little thought, making sieges actually damage less then random unlucky death to wildlife.

You know, player can wall fort off and thus make siege damage only fps. And I although your deer are deadly (hate those bastards) in the wild I doubt they'll cause much casualties to well armed and grouped squad of goblins.

Also, I'd like to upgrade my current save, which raw files have you altered?