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3.: The baron enables you to become the capital of your civilization (check the civilization screen if your king/queen is still alive; his guard will come anyway even when not) and he can eventually become a count and a duke. Make sure you select a dwarf who only likes materials/items you can easily acquire and manufacture (no platinum, bismuth, flutes, pond grabber bones).
The baron will also want to have expensive rooms with lots of furniture so have some legendary engravers and masons/smiths ready.

I'm happy for any useless junk i don't have to make my dwarfs dump into the magma sea, so i guess no :>.

Blunt attacks don't work against colossi 

Heyho, a few questions that might help me with my new Genesis fort:

1. A well is built above open space and will need at least (5/7 or was it 4?) water in any tile below it (the further below the longer getting water will take). The best way to get water depends on your embark. If you have a river or brook you can get the water by digging an underground tunnel to it (make a lever operated door or floodgate for safety with a constructed fortification in front of it). If you have no water outside but have some in a cavern a similar method is used, you can carve the fortification into the stone to let the water in and keep swimming monsters out (they might get pushed through the fortification by moving water, so again make a floodgate/door to switch off the flow once your cistern is full.
It's preferable to make the area below the below the well 2 z-levels tall so the upper level contains water without mud (dwarfs don't like muddy water, it also increases the chance of infections when cleaning patients). Use a pressure regulator so your well doesn't spill over. http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/Pressure
2. I never played Genesis but a dwarf pulling a lever on repeat is usually a very fast trigger.
3. Random x-y direction (i think 5 tiles max). I think you might want to replace this with a retracting bridge as the current design has probably a 50% chance of throwing attackers back on the path or into your fort.

I always bring a hunter (needs ambusher as highest non military skill), who gets a free crossbow and quiver with 25 bolts on embark. Unless you embark in a undead biome he'll bring in enough food so you don't have to worry about anything but water/booze for a while. The bones from butchering are turned into bone bolts, and by the end of year 2 he'll be legendary or really close. Since he can't really use up all bone bolts once he's getting a bit better, 2 or 3 migrants from the first wave get drafted into an archer squad and spend the excess bolts on the archery range.
I never tried bringing teachers/students but I've been reading good things about it so I'll try it on my next fort.

I've never noticed the diagnosis skill level doing anything other than giving a faster diagnosis. Some people have suggested that personality traits could influence the amount of time it takes a dwarf to get to a job.

To move out and into rivers use alt+direction key. It will give you options to move diagonally (there are also direct keybinds for up and down diagonally i think). As you experienced going into the water where you don't know if the region is freezing in the winter is pretty dangerous (working as intended).