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That's weird and a little disappointing. I guess you could always construct a drowning/boiling trap out of the river itself, or use it as a dump zone to see if it melts stuff into nothing.

Hmmm, I've always thought about making bee hive surrounded spiked pits near my weapon traps, but, the lack of toxicity in their venom kinda put a halt on that idea.

Also, what is the effect of wearing a hood or cloak? I thought that any clothing besides cotton candy didn't provide protection?

They provide extra protection 'round the head, neck and whatnot. They also make your dwarves look badass.

Silk alone can protect a dwarf from a copper weapon.

No cloaks or hoods? They can wear leather with metal armor on. 

Embark with no skills, no resources, no tools. I was feeling like the game was to easy, and someone suggested that to someone else in a post. So I was all, "hmmm nothing...." tried it, and behold, it was harder.
Also what you gain is quite rewarding, when you have nothing (not including the three logs from your wagon)!

Anyways, is there a way, lets say to explore different areas of the world? Feel like I am stuck to the little one area I settled in.

In the future, probably, yes.

So question regarding the message "has been X about long patrol duty lately." Message on military Dorfs. I read that you need to have some down time in there schedules to avoid this, however, I've put about a month during each season as off duty(and during winter and spring, they don't even patrol out, just rest, train, then rest again for the season) and I'm still getting that message. Do I actually have to disband the squad to give them down time?

Some people make 'em patrol all year.

You're going to want to switch their alert state to inactive, to get them to actually be "off duty". They'll still train and stuff though.

The whole military screen is confusing at first, but if you fiddle with it, it's not super bad. Definitely not user-friendly, and could use some more aesthetically pleasing interface.

So, if you've got a squad set up with equipment, and you want to station them, press the N key, while off the other menus, and you'll be at a "Note screen" Designate key points, name them, (you can even setup patrol routes between these points) and then, you go to the Main military screen with the m key, look at their schedule, go to the month you want them stationed/training/patrolling, add an order, select the dwarves you want to be stationed/patrolling/training. You also have the option to defend burrows, if you've defined one.

Also, the S key, will allow you to select a squad and tell them to kill something or move somewhere specific on the map.