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I would expect immortal races to be pretty useless for innovation, but culturally inclined to megaprojects and the skills commonly employed in megaconstructions.  Immortal races don't live under the constant threat of impending doom.  They lack that essential impetus to find ways to do things better and faster, and have more to lose from taking reckless risks trying to find a better way.  On the other hand, they're likely to still be around to appreciate and reap the benefits of an undertaking that requires decades or centuries to complete.  They're also probably more likely to do things by tradition, the way they've always been done, because they have the memories, not just vague stories distorted by multiple generations of retelling.
People who know they're dead in 40 years no matter how safe they play it, and have only the faintest idea of how things were even 200 years ago, are the ones more likely to be trying new methods and finding new solutions.

Suggestions
1. Charcoal qualities. This not only lead to different price tags or affect the mood of a metalsmith using it, but can also have different levels of energy output.

2. Higher wood burning skill should result in higher yield of charcoals (or ashes) per wood, instead of faster burning time per wood.

guards would drink even without slaves.  gives military something to do when not training.

I like the second one, though I think it's now kind o addressed by having the Fighter skill.

The first one i don't like. Changing the "being hit while in armor" training method to "being in armor" makes no sense for me. Without the rehaul and polish of how experience is gained in general, this I think would be exchanging one bad system for another.

You can base the armor skill off of weight, and if the armor is of insufficient weight, it doesn't train armor user.  Hence, light bone armor or leather that isn't sufficiently thick enough to really impair a dwarf won't train the skill.

Beyond that, if we get to the point where donning and doffing clothing could be routine and trustworthy, having military dwarves take off their armor to eat and sleep or when they are off-duty makes perfect sense, as well, since we, as players, aren't going to be bored or have to overly-micromanage that.  (Although it will lead to the expected problems of an off-duty hammerlord with her hammer and platemail on the other end of the fort.)

That's not even getting into the weirdness of gastropods like mollusks and pals.

gastropods like mollusks and pals.

implication that mollusks are a subclade of gastropods

I've concluded that dramatizing asexual reproduction is difficult.

I would suggest you rename your thread title to actually reflect its contents.  (I.E. "Diving Vermin Hunter Birds" or "Bird Tokens") Names like these that are generic are unhelpful to people looking at the forum, especially if a topic keeps coming up, and they have to remember if they've read "a minor suggestion" or if it was "another minor suggestion" they already read. 

As for carrier pigeons, you might want to search about the information diffusion threads that have taken place, and what Toady has said about such things.  (I.E. adventurers reporting that they killed something to any random peasant being instantly known by everyone in the whole kingdom.) Those are things that will be worked on, eventually, but I don't think carrier pigeon networks are necessarily how it will be done.  Inserting talk of how it could be done into such a suggestion on that topic would be a good idea.

I want a money tree...