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Very useful to just hit o-F-(cio) and keep people from going apeshit every time somebody spots a free sock or various other things.  Burrows are good for the practical purpose of keeping your dwarves inside a certain area but as you noticed they're a pain to set up, and also you're still going to get tons of job cancel messages for people trying to go pick up things outside the burrow and then realizing they're not supposed to go out there.

There's a sorta exception in floor tiles - you can construct floor, and this will let you place nearly all building types over it, but no other types of construction (e.g. wall or stair).  If you just want to seal it up, you probably want a floor rather than a grate.

It's a good idea to increase number of civilizations when genning the world, and to stop history pretty early.  I went with 80 civs on a medium map and stop my history at 50 or 75, usually every civ is alive.

After much sweating getting it out of the ground and many years of painstaking strand picking, my bonehead mayor/doctor just stitched up a kid's cut pinkie with bluemetal.  Mental note to just never leave strands sitting around and smelt it immediately.

Well, unless somebody cooks it before you get the seed out

If the metal type that a bin is made of has any practical effect on hauling, I can't see it.  Lead bins look like they're hauled just as fast as featherwood bins.

Food is really the easiest problem to solve in the game, between fishing and hunting and farming and herbalism and trading.  Farming is completely unnecessary, you have so many other options, although it's nice to make dye or textile fibre or whatever.

Had a zombie ettin come visit, and one of my dwarfs punched it in the leg - just one punch in the leg, "bruising the fat" I think - and it died.