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Of course, if you jus made the chunks of soil passable without mining, that would ALSO make mining faster.

I understand that some people like not mining, and that most people (myself included) like not mining sometimes. But that's no excuse for making digging through the soil layers so much harder.
And why is it ineresting and "just as fast" to make them haul out the soil before going any further? Unless the miners can mine soil walls instantly and dwarves get a speed boost while hauling out soil, it's going to be at best the same when they start and much, much slower once you get farther underground in the soil layers.

How's the vote calculation coming along?

I understamd the idea, but you claimed a couple posts ago that this would somehow make mining faster.

I again call upon you to ask what vital tasks you can do at the fort's start that don't require mining. Woodcutting, maybe, but there's everything else, too. Like farms, bedrooms, masonry...

As long as options for individual workshops/burrows/stockpiles, etc, is still at the workshop/burrow/stockpile screen, that sounds sensible.

Carving stuff about Dwarf X should be easy (they already carve based on their own preferences, and sometimes stuff with important people in the fortress), as long as they know where to carve it.

Wait wait wait. How does requiring the removal of chunks of soil before mining can continue make mining FASTER? I'd appreciate a bit of clarification here.
...Are you saying that being able to use these soil items as walls would make it faster to make aboveground fortifications? I see that, but why would the soil need to restrict movement?

Trial and error.

Not a good answer, mind you, just an obvious one.

Goblin creature raws--what you'd need to open to change things like how fast they grow up--are in creature_standard. Same with elves, to decrease growth rate.