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hmmm...So bring a breeding pair of both horses and donkeys?  selectively breed them up to muscular/gigantic/fat butcher all mules as a meat source (or save them for emergency food supplies.  culling the male horses/donkeys should be enough for a while) and use that to establish an early dairy industry, then import cows or camels later on?  Or would it be better to bring 2 breeding pairs of horses or donkeys?  This would prevent the birthing of mules (so faster herd growth) but then every donkey/horse that enters the map would need to be culled to prevent mules from interfering with the dairy herd...(this is why I bring cows.  they might cost more, but they dont spew out mules that are only useful for meat supplies.  Surprisingly, mules provide more meat than donkeys or horses.  buy several female horses and a single male donkey if you want a cheap meat supply.) 

Wow i am being a little disjointed but oh well.  what about maggots?  How easy/difficult are they to acquire?  If i modded my game to make them purchasable on embark (or from traders later on) what would an acceptable price be?  their current value of 10 seems much too low in my opinion...

And why are camels so frakking expensive (on embark?) 

Do we have a farmer and mechanic?  if yes, we only need the sand from now on

EDIT:  (Sand is the most important thing to bring on embark.  besides meat/booze/picks/training axe)

actually, you can have aquifers in the volcano and underneath the volcano (but digging down near the magma is your best bet for avoiding the aquifer) I have seen that happen and it is a PAIN navigating around three layers of aquifer...but i did it! _{we are ignoring how i turned my staircase into a mist generator on accident...}

1 cow, 1 bull, 4 female dogs, 2 male dogs, the rest in sand. 

Also, At least 50 bags of sand (pull 30 from each of those seeds i requested so no net change in points)  if for no other reason than a first caravan trade good.  the GCS bags sell for 121 each giving at least 1.2k dorfbucks to spend on drinks and food the first fall resupply.

Save him until you have collected a small menagerie then release them in a pit.  preferably a gladiator style arena where POW's can be sent to die while your dwarfs dine behind crystal glass walls...

Pikes cannot be used by normal dwarves, you need huge dwarves.

This also.  But if they have exp in the skill, would that not imply they are able to use said weapon?