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I always drop my water two Z levels below  the floor area, just too many problems with it splashing out otherwise. Enough randomness in the water levels will cause it to hit 7/7 on the edges and overflow. I also place a statue in the center tile where the water hits 7/7 from above to avoid the job cancellation spam.

If you bisected my setup it would look like this
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f floor
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To avoid this as much as possible in the future build a mist generator if possible, then place your jail in the range of the mist. Place a food and liquor stock pile tile beside the jail. In 2010 this works wonders.

Food, then weapon components, then armor... I wish cotton candy could be acquired via trading...

masterwork candy serrated discs 400k+, with no decorations. Worth more then most of my artifacts.

Legendary farmers + legendary cooks can make a fortress rich pretty quick too.

When I first started playing (.12 I think) I had a mayor that wanted slade stuff. 'Course I didn't know enough about the game to realize it could never be met and people kept getting beat to death by the guard. Fort ended in a  pretty bad spiral.

Normally I don't care about the legion of pets that path to the danger room but in my latest fort it seems to be causing a lot of job cancellation messages. Some dog will get it's teeth knocked out by a spike, then die. The dogs body will get tossed in a coffin, but then a series of "Urist McBurial cannot place item in tomb, item misplaced" occur, all going after the part of the pet that was knocked loose. If I forbid the part the messages stop.

If Urist can get the the dogs body while pointy sticks are trying to ram themselves up his ass, why is picking up a loose tooth a problem? Has it always been this way with danger rooms, or did I just realize it this time (guess I'll have to dig up my old game folders and try it), or is something new with .18?

Have you actually let well equipped dwarves go fight some goblins after they only become legendary fighters?
Really the only other thing you should care about is shield use so they have durability vs bolts and arrows.

Everything else? Let them actually train you jerk. It's faster after they max out fighter and you don't need to make an army of soldiers that could each solo entire sieges- at least not before they've ever had actual combat experience. You don't deserve to have soldiers than can handle everything within the first year.

Not sure if your talking to me, but yes I do deserve to have soldiers that can handle everything in the first year. After hitting a huge Adam spire my fort went from a broke dirthole to a barony with 20M credits in no time. A few dwarves went moody and made insanely expensive artifacts. Now 30+ goblin shocktroopers are showing up on GIANT F'ING BATS! Ya, they tore the crap out of well trained soldiers.  So I've.. err, my baron mandated that the best army money can buy be formed and trained as quickly as possible to repel the vile force of evil. We've got an adamantine tower to build to the heavens, not time to piss around with goblins.

One of the first things I do when I embark is set my farmer to gather plants using dwarf therapist, then designate a decent area to be gathered (d -> p). He'll bring in a decent amount, and usually this means that you can be a bit more leisurely/choosy when setting up a farm.

This also gives you seeds for above ground farms too.

Also, should I take away their weapons once they reach legendary in their skillset? Will that train dodging/armor use faster?