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Maybe there should be some sort of order for dwarves of a specific profession and/or specific dwarves to take their food with them for lunch?

From the journal of GreatWyrmSilver “Boatslance,” middle child of the Mining Brothers of The Earthen Room, reclaim team for Agsalkikrost.
You probably haven't heard of me or my brothers, but trust me, we're the best mining team this side of Koganusan! My older brother, Lastclasps, is a pansy optimist who can't handle stress; my younger brother, Oildwelings, is a tough guy who thinks he can muscle his way through anything; and I'm a bookworm who spends too much time reading and writing. No wonder we wound up here; we're too skilled to waste and too eccentric to use. So now I'm freezing my rear off despite wearing trousers, a robe, a cloak, and so forth. I hope to get underground soon.
While my brothers are still fumbling for their picks, I've already got mine and am busy mining out the top of the staircase that will let us escape this place. Meanwhile, the four dwarves chosen to be the milita are standing around, hauling the pack animals off to pastures in hopes that they'll buy us enough time to get underground before we die. I can hear the wails of four ghosts and one elf. Interestingly, one of the ghosts has a cat leather cloak and a bronze ax, and two of the others are clothed. How and why this is doesn't interest me, although one of the dwarven ghosts does. I instantly feel a kinship with him.
Soon the dead begin to rise--a drake, far to the southwest, then a small kobold hand in the mines, then a troglodyte skull to the west. The land has detected life, and we are not welcome.

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Just a quick intro, not a lot being said. All of the noted events occur before midnight of Granite 1.

I thought you were suggesting that the few goblins, or probably just one, who were suicidal enough to jump at the raising bridge would be able to lower it.

That's more reasonable, but unless I'm in a big rush I always eat at some kind of dining room, so presumably dwarves would prefer that over eating bites of plump helmet between swings of a pick or what-have-you.

Also people have said that removing [PERMITTED_JOB:XXXX] works for Fortress mode, they are full of it. I remove Masonary and I can have masons when I play as that Entity.

You apparently also need to remove ALL stoneworking jobs (e.g. also engraving) to not get it in Fortress Mode. Same with every other job category.

I like the idea of dwarven blood being alcoholic better. For one, it explains why vampires attack dwarves to begin with.

Ideally, some would still be ALCOHOL_DEPENDANT, some would not, and all dwarves would have mildly alcoholic blood.

You can make a material that evaporates at room temperature and traansforms, say, cats into a "Construct" creature of some kind that has OPPOSED_TO_LIFE. Bonus: Make the former cat's owner, if any, attack it.