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embark in an area that is within a mid to high temperature cusp with multiple biomes, each different but with a focus on regions that have more trees. Chances are you'll get a large variety of fruit. probably can't get all the one's you'd like but maybe it's possible.

check the order you built it in on the wiki. sometimes it can be a little buggy and requires you to build the items in a certain order otherwise it doesn't recognize your power source...or you might not have a windy area i guess...

lawdy. I've only ever had a problem with lag in three scenarios. in adventurer mode (pretty much all the time lol but especially in large cities) or if I really push the world/regions/civs/sites/age and do something along the lines of maxing out the embark size with a waterfall or something. Quite uristly, I don't really play adventurer mode and I prefer a nice quaint 3x3 embark in a short lived world with very few regions, sites and civs. It's not like you need 50+ mountainhomes but, I suppose it could be useful.
Seriously though, try making smaller worlds. It really improves the fps. I've had my dwarves running around almost faster than I can follow with my eyes.

Pretty sure hair thread can be used for suturing and is stored in your hospital if there's enough space.

Is it normal to have a goblin playable as an adventurer in the newest vanilla version of DF? Possibly a consequence of toady's updates? I haven't had this happen in previous versions.

Gonna upload your save? I sure would like to check it out... I bet I'm not the only one either. That sounds like a crazy bug.

So, when I start a game, I usually start with two miners/engravers, a carpenter/stonecrafter, a woodcutter/herbalist, a mason/engraver, a planter/brewer/cook, and a Warrior or Trader.

What professions do you assign your seven dwarves when you start a new game?

It is acceptable in my eyes if only you must hunt the squid to get the ink, that goes on the pen (made from some trapped bird) to write on the scroll of papyrus (that you made from picking and processing a plant) in order to write out the spell from which you learned by reading some old grimior you found in a dungeon (which, by the way, could've been misread and now you just made a scroll of self immolation instead of fireball)