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I get a 20-25% mortality rate. I suppose I could add more real spears and bump up the mortality rate, but it works for me.

Although, throwing in the occasional wooden spear is something I do to balance the danger room and train doctors.

Disable one type of hauling job at a time until you determine the type of stockpile.
Then look delete every one of those stockpiles until the messages go away.
Then build new stockpiles.

If this doesn't work, flush to fortress with magma.

I think i have DF-ADD.

I always start fortresses, spend copious amounts of time laying them out with big plans for...um...big things. Then, somewhere between implementation and completion, I lose focus.

What do you do to keep focus during the in process phase of your mega-projects?

I think carp.

If you have the number of stills you say you are and are running low on booze, make sure you don't have booze set to cookable.

I haven't done any of the fancy maths but I find 1 farmer, 1 brewer and 1 cook able to way overproduce what I need for 150 dwarves with two 4X4 farms set to change crops by season with an annual purge of random livestock.

Excellent. I will have to devise a wild animal trap to herd the elephants into.

I can set up multiple(100) burrows and assign one dwarf to each to bisect the map.  Once the elephants are on one half of the map I assign half of the dwarves to a new set of burrow, biscting that half of the map and repeat until the elephants are corralled in a small area. Then I open a bridge that leads into the wild elephant farm down by the magma sea and chase them in by stationing one of my squads. Once the elephants move forward I can leap frog another squad continuing to push the elephants down into the depths of the earth. Once they are there I close the lever actuated doors and wait for next year.

Or I suppose I could use some cage traps...

Then I will have to chase them out of my tree farm.