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I'd use those two interchangeably in that context as a native English speaker.  FWIW.

And i dont bother with dwarf 'enjoys helping others'.  As far as im aware that has no impact on whether he will actually do it, just that it will generate a happy thought. (thats what therapist indicates on a mouseover anyway)  Absolutely dont use someone with the reverse trait however

It's usually most efficient to construct a staircase to the roof level and the build the floor out from there. Once completed, build a stairway from the outside and deconstruct the top stairs, replacing them with a floor. You can leave the stairs or deconstruct them, since if sealed properly it won't matter if they are on the roof or not.

If someone has a better method than this, feel free to share it.

That method is only best if you want a stair up the inside afterwards anyway.  If you just want a hollow tower or box or whatever then begin with the staircase outside, roof from there.  Can just leave it afterwards as you say

Floors!

You can construct a floor over a tile to prevent sapling growth.

For doing large areas I highly recommend the paved road instead.  extra architecture step, far fewer mats.

I routinely cover as much as 50% of my surface with roading, use goblinite for epic architectural wealth and more paving mats.  Around the walls, down the wagon avenues, wherever i want a crossbow killing-ground...

Oh. and all your sewerage systems, drains, water channels etc.

Dzedajus has a good solution.  I agree with the OP, generalised finished goods bins and trade depots dont mix.  You move every bin containing a craft, you get the jugs, splints, nest boxes, wheelbarrows etc etc.  One of my pet peeves is that flasks/waterskins move with these bins too and have my military dancing around trying to fish out a flask as it passes.

I use 2 finished good piles.  Both may use bins, however one may only take various 'crafts', the other may not take any crafts.  Thus, when you flag a 'craft' bin to be traded it comes up full of crafts, but *only* crafts.

Another fine tip for those who dont want to go into some pile management.  Remember once you have completed your trade to 'q-g' over the depot again and un-flag  anything remaining with a [T].  Otherwise that bin is unavailable to the fort until the merchants leave and any important objects within it are unreachable.

To answer the specific question: No, you cant see into the bin until it arrives at the Depot, neither from the 'summon items to depot' screen or the stocks.  You could 'k' over it where it sits in the stockpile, but thats about it.

I see things like this popping up, with medical jobs not being taken, even with 'No Job' medics longterm.

Anecdotal:  Counter to Dwimenor, everyone who works in my hospital has diagnose.  You need to diagnose dwarves (evaluate) a number of times between stages.  The most critical of these is the first evaluation, which must be done by the chief medic noble.  This is the only guy where I care if he actually has Diag skill.  The rest get it because if the guy needs a splint and stitches, I dont want a dwarf with both labours to bugger off to a party between jobs while we wait for the noble again, its probably his damn party.  Give em all diag and they will chain the steps themselves if they have a number of relevant labours, full treatment in days.  Awesome.

I've always had issue running long histories with every version.  Because I like my big beasties and tend to stop at age of myth so I can play with them.

I can usually find towers by 100.  Humans ought to be 'mancing up by the end of the first century.  I cannot say I have seen them in the latest version, I havent actually looked for towers since they flickered in and out of neighbour view a version or 2 back.  Last definate sighting _06 but havent been looking.

Try generating a quick world off regular untouched settings.  Take all the midline quick-options, dont do an advanced gen, medium size, give it a long history.  Pause the generation every 50 years or so and take a look around with the cursors, you can see settlements forming, centering over them in the world view will tell you what they are at the top of the screen under the region name and you ought to be able to see towers going up.  You can 'step' through the world gen like this as long as you are interrupting it manually and not having a cut-out like mb% kick in.

Provided you can generate a necromancer in this version, on any map, then the issue lies with your particular world, and we can begin to examine that.

Has it been added to the entity as a permitted reaction?  Those declarations normally head the entity files.

Also, should you ever choose to play a female elf, this will swap your gender.  you know that right?