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Spells are for whiches, you ain't a wich are you?

If you try to create a walled village, with separate buildings connected by streets and alleys all open to the sky you will get slaughtered by your first flying siege (barring some extensive security measures.)

For a mega-structure: make a chimney-like stair column for building your roofs that gets walled off as you finish each floor and make it habitable.  The entrance to this should be lined with traps to prevent buzzards and the like from flying into your fortress proper.  Roofing over all inhabited spaces is crucial, otherwise animals and sieges can fly right into the heart of your fortress.

Turn off immigration, at least for the first few years while you get setup, otherwise you will never have enough rooms.

More likely than not you'll still need to dig out temporary quarters and workshops while everything gets built.

For extra credit make everything out of blocks, pave over the hallways, and add glass windows everywhere.

Actually, an even simpler to implement option than the one I mentioned before:

Just give us the option to designate the Water and Magma squares which we don't want to create warnings.

Fire as a defense, torches that keep wild animals away and blind cave creatures not used to bright light.

Medicine, take a ground up cow skull, add a rotten dimple cup and Mrs Urist will be preggers by tomorrow.  (Kind of covered by Alchemy)

Nutrition, penalties/diseases for not varying your diet.

Will there be an active way in which we can engage in diplomacy, something like sending out envoys akin to the ones you receive.

Captain of the Guard getting whatever artifact weapon/armor that's made.  All captains have to have leadership, soldiers cannot be rebellious or stress prone.  A proper barracks should have 10 bedrooms, with a bigger one for the captain, in addition to training areas.

I hate the random colors of dug out dwellings, and prefer to construct (out of crafted blocks) once I'm settled.  Sometimes these are stand alone multi-story buildings, other times they're just part of one huge structure.

When I find a married couple I try to move them to a bigger apartment, or build a second bed in the one they're using.

Once I discovered it, life became a lot simpler.  I do relapse now and then though when I design living units specifically for large families or specialized dormitories for certain workers.