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As far as i understand it doesnt matter.  The hospital claims the soap anyway even if it doesnt have room for it (claims based on your settings)  Reliably filling containers with a good mix is a little tricky but if you have soap, doctors can use it.  Medical stuff is really low priority.  No other labours at all on chief medic dwarf, preferably none on any medical dwarf

If you really want some in the hospital then.....forbid all your cloth and thread, make some soap, build a chest or two in the hospital, then unforbid thread/cloth once they move some soap.  For some probably slightly buggy reason you tend to end up with mainly those 2

Edit: I think the hospital generates claims for items it wants (based on zone settings). these jobs are all simultaneous and dont respect available storage space, its quite possible it decides to grab 50,000 thread and 500 soap but the dwarves go for thread first and you only built enough chests for half the thread total anyway.....no soap in storage

You can also forge mechanisms under trap components at a forge.  Quality is the traps to-hit chance.

My forts usually hold about 60 years.  I tend to automate them round 15-20 and let them run unattended for hours (years) on my spare machine while I play the next.  Ive had two break 200 years over the last two real world years.

also world depth/height is generated with advanced parameters at worldgen. 

Quality furniture, easily mass-produced goods for trading.

Gotta watch furniture trading.  Its a bad profit/weight ratio and you'll overload the merchants fast, most furniture makes a poor trade good unless you have little option.

Deon's Genesis has that one but you'd have to sift it from his fairly extensively expanded raws.  Depends how familiar you are with them.  If you get stuck theres a good support community in the modding forum, its not just announcements so you can get specifics there, you can usually reach Tomi swiftly through the genesis thread if you want that bit

Food in stockpiles shouldnt be part of your wealth.  Nothing in a stockpile is.

Building artifact furniture will dramatically increase your wealth.  So will making anything from candy or constructing steel armor/weapons with a reasonably competant smith.  Likewise lavish rooms for dwarves/nobles and pimped dining rooms.  This is the stuff looked at.  It also checks things like roads/bridges, traps, workshops, anything you built.  Oh and smooth/engrave of course (architecture is i believe the value of your floors/walls/bridges/roads)

In short, all the things that come with fortress age rather than dwarf count.

Yeah the stuff that leaves with the caravan disappears from the world.  Expect this to change soon, but DF trade cycles arnt quite there yet

Yeah I started a little fort on one of the volcanos.  Kinda quiet so I reckon i'll try and extract the settings and regenerate in fortress defense or something.