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How many chairs and how many tables should I foresee for a single grand dining room in a 200-dwarf fortress?

If I don't do something crazy in other places, I just make a restaurant. Putting in artifacts works wonders 

Pick up stuff. Talk to the tree while wearing sunglasses .

I just became a legendary thrower along with a legendary dodger. Superhuman strength, agility, recuperation. I have just killed single-handedly a lance of 13 kobold "bowbolds" and proceeded to pick up their arrows. I got around 179 of them. Wow!

I proceed to one-shot or two-shot folks from ~15 tiles away (I have points in observer and ambusher) and now have an army of armed, armored cannon fodder 

Oh, and I left a bronze colossus in a murky pool. I then waited a while and when night came... "freeze"   

not exactly, but really close. isn't capn duck's tutorial .12? look at it 'cause health's remained pretty much the same, and military has been upgraded.

but don't confuse yourself.

i am a super, duper, mega ultra noob, that went partway through a tutorial before realizing that i missed something halfway through it and now i have no idea how to find my way back to the tutorials path.
you could re-start, or (if you had autosave and autobackup on) just load an earlier save. however, if you see only 1 save, then sorry, can't revert.

anyways, what are some recommended settings for a noob such as myself?

(bold above for first problem)

Settings depend on how you like to play. For example, you can turn invaders (ambushes and sieges, but not thieves/snatchers) off to help learn stuff. To get a bit more fps at the cost of realism, you can turn temperature and weather off (but water stays in the same state with temperature off, so don't count on those freezing traps/getting water from the glacier with magma/etc.

Suggested "needs": ECONOMY:Off (broken mostly), fps counter on, cap your fps/gfps at 100/50 for good performance, autosave and autobackup are a must, compressed saves take up less space but can corrupt (I play either one at times, notice no big difference), aquifers depend on playstyle (but for you I suggest turning off), other stuff is to fiddle with (but try keeping defaults on the rest)

Two questions:

1) Is there a way to see what a moody dwarf requires after (s)he has taken over a shop but before (s)he starts gathering specific materials?

2) What's the melting point for coke and charcoal (or do we even know)?

1. [ q ] over the workshop. it will say stuff like "blah blah blah wants blah blah". Or differently. Check the wiki to see what they want and what sort of mood it is. you can also see materials and things in a workshop through [ t ] and can forbid materials to make them get something else.

2. Charcoal/coke has no melting point, it just burns. Well, in DF that is. Because "there is always air" and air physics aren't model'd (yet!)

Look self (i.e. tell me what equipment I have)

cautiously walk through the jungle to the side of the falling sun (i.e. east, optional if no sun)