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Grass should regrow eventually. Make sure your pasture is a low traffic area so absolutely no dwarf decides to trample the grass. If your beasties are eating it faster then it regrows you need a bigger pasture.

I don't know do the pumps transfer power if they are connected? I've never built a pump stack (magma piston all the way for me)

Yeah as soon as you assign a space as a dwarf's posession everything in it will be owned by the dwarf, so the chests and whatnot were your chief medics private posessions.

You can build a floor ontop of a wall though, but there's not much point to it since it already has a floor. You can make above ground level floors by constructing floors next to an existing floor, or for a tower this is next to the wall  you built and one z level up.

Some forgotten beasts are pretty weak. I mean really weak. Sometimes a random unarmed civilian can manage to kill one without sustaining injuries.
Other times it's a flipping rampaging monster seemingly ignoring every attack done by your year long trained and fully armed military, instantly killing a soldier by smashing his brain through a metal helmet, and spreading all sorts of syndromes that might be even more deadly.

So far I've found animal tribes underground fairly weak. I often manage to kill several tribes with only my 7 starting dwarves, all unarmed except for an axe and two pickaxes, with no casualties.
So far I've done this against batmen, amphibian men and swallow men.

However I've sometimes seen some cave man creatures become so adept in combat through an enormous amount of battle that, even if they're the sole survivor, they are a force to be reckoned with.
In my pevious fort I had a named amphibian man as sole survivor of his tribe, and he fought off forgotten beasts with ease using only his primitive wooden weapons. Granted he did fight them underwater, wich might have given him an edge.

But long story short, the strength of forgotten beast can vary enormously, and sometimes it's syndromes can be more dangerous then the actual beast.

Also how do I retrieve dead dwarves from a lake? Pumps?

It grows back. If your yaks are eating it faster then it regrows consider making a larger pasture.