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Ok yeah thats my bad.  Its a change to genesis that I hadnt noticed.

locking doors and sealing rooms doesnt help.

things should stay in bins, ive never seen them leave.  Faith in the lead bin trick is pretty widepsread.

not certain on the cavern scattering.  items normally scatter without respect to reachability but ive never tested this.  in theory it should scatter everywhere but i imagine theres safeguards against scattering to the circus and such.

the only way to test the durability of the lair status is gonna be to test it a bit I think.  I've never heard anything about this kind of scheme before. 

for getting items into buildings for storage then your only real hope is to have no stockpiles when you build it in fort mode, youll need a lot of workshops over time as stuff gets insanely cluttered...its likely to get messy

built furniture shouldnt move (racks, cabinets).  Ive never checked their contents but id say they probably wont move.

Let us know how it goes

Yeah this.  Large worlds are nive for having as much variety in fortress sites as possible and for having lots of room for MBs for adventurers to kill.

Neither of these are really problems in a medium world, they work just fine for everything too:)

As far as I know though, according to the wiki that healing rate is only for spinal nerves. Also, the health screen says he's still got a severed motor nerve, which I'm assuming would disappear if he had healed.

Huh thats odd, I always assumed the nerve tissue was what gets hit in limbs too.  Ive noticed some of my crutch walkers returning their crutches too.

re temperatureless magma.  You can still drown in it just like water with temp off...

Re Fort Automation:

You picked up on the key hurdle immediately, nothing causes my automated forts more grief than damned liaison meetings as thats a bunch of 'a' key presses needed each autumn.  Other hassles are FB/titan announcements which want enter presses.  Not found a way to supress these.

I solved this one with a little complex filtration.  The caravans all come down a certain tunnel due to the way i setup access to map edges, theres a pressure plate in that corridor set for heavier than normal creatures (it triggers off a merchant's pack animal).  This setup isolates the caravan and prevents it from entering the fort proper (where the liaison will tie up your mayor).  Rather than lock em in somewhere they just get shut-off from the fortress and will eventually get annoyed and leave.

Once the first caravan triggers this then the fort is pretty locked up bar a few approaches meant for seigers (lead to killable units for goblin pathing but not to depot/mayor).  It remains locked to caravans untill I reset the system.  (I couldnt find a way to open it automaticaly as I cant tell when the caravan/liaison leave)

Soldier attrition is part of the challenge really and the main cause of death of my auto-forts.  Its not as bad as it could be, im rarely performing these steps before 15 years so my militia are fairly buff.  The defensive setup of my fortress means no scheduling or orders.  Melee and ranged units just train in their barracks year round, the seigers take care of everything themselves, the fort is usually even open to all 3 cavern layers.  syndrome FBs are number 2 alltime fortkiller.

(my archers are in the pillboxes from my thread in sig link.  6 of them ringing the main staírcase in a courtyard.  Pressure plate causes the bridges/shutters to raise together and everything gets shot by a volley from 40 crossbows.  The shutters drop again on a timer.  Melee is in the courtyard beyond, I built their barracks with glass windows for walls so that they will charge and return all by themselves if anything passes the Xbows)

It gets pretty complex.  I might do a little video tour of one of my older ones sometime, there are a few little tricks for proper 'hands-off' forts.

Ok, I thought everything was open till triggered then cycled and emptied and opened, but i see you have one open which opens the next whenever it cycles.  Smart system mate

you dont need anyone with skill, just build a loom and give someone idle the weaving job.  same for spinning job at farmers workshop.  just assign the labour.  they take ages but nothing in the game requires a skill level to perform. (bar firing through fortifications)  your wool will be at the refuse pile, or farmers workshop if you have none.

the order is farmers workshop shear. farmers workshop spin, loom weave and you got bandages. the earlier post missed spinning, you will need that before weaving