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Forgive me if I am wrong but does not a ten layer drop kill all by explosion.

hands and heads will still be intact, and they will be reanimated I think.
Actually, I'm surprised that magma doesn't help. Bones should burn to nothing given enough time because they have heatdam and ignition points afaik.

nice idea, although I think that children apprentices should perform labors at their masters' command, especially things like "bring that that and that". Would be great if children could make mistakes bringing wrong things and get shouted on and beaten for it.
Also I believe some dwarves should become uncomfortable with having nasty children being assigned to them and messing around interfering with their work and spying their secrets, even as far as trying to attack them.

As two further arguments for linking religion to charisma instead of intelligence, I mention two famous religious leaders that were both highly intelligent and charismatic:

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Ghandi

Yes, they were both undeniably smart.  However, the first thing to come to mind when you think of these men isn't "smart" but "charismatic".  If we had the old system, I'd suggest linking religion to both charisma and intelligence.  But since we can only have one, I think charisma is the best fit.

Well couldn't we say they just had high Persuasion skill as well? That's the skill that makes people do things because you say so, I think.

i think you should also have candlejack vermin which would cause your dwarves to suddenly dissape

What about if iron, coal and a flux stone packed on one square were melted with magma to make a steel chunk?

Iron would not melt in magma without additional heating.
Also, making steel in that old-fashioned way requires close supervision imho. All you're going to have as a result of uncontrollably melting iron with flux would be useless pig iron.

You can train dwarves to use whips?!/1/1/1//1/!/!!!!!??!!!! 

You can assign your squads to use whips just like any other weapon. They are listed as "whips (foreign)"
However, i do not agree with Azated  that whips are great in dwarven hands. Sure, they are overpowered because their ignore your adamantine armour, but against goblins a steel pick or an adamantine axe would perform better I think.
With whips, most hits are just bruised muscle, it's just hits to the head that gain instakills. With a steel pick against goblins, any hit is pretty much incapacitating.

I'd luv it if every metal, was identified by its periodic table abbv.  Cu  for Copper.  Instead of its long name.  I suppose this would be an easy mod to make.  It would help shorten many names, and aid in the, in the sorting my stockpiles and equipment, before and after, the melting process.  It might remove the fantasy for some folks, so I guess, it might not be a good idea.

What would you do with alloys, adamantine and non-metal items then? It would be inconsistent to use element signs to depict pure elemental metals while still retaining common names for the other stuff, wouldn't it?

Also, for the sake of this post not being derailing, I don't like the idea of pools of molten metal solidifing into usable bars, but I do support the idea of molten metal pools and lumps being collectable and meltable. Just imagine an enormously upscaled smelter, loaded with entire sieges and spewing forth tons of copper and iron!

if without modding, this can be accomplished by accuratelly dropping your dwarves on top of enemy goblins. If there are not enough goblins down there, first triiger a doberman bomb or an kitten bomb via an airlock system. (in this case it's more of a "kitten airbag"), then land your troopers on the kittens.
Oh wait you could just release your dwarves through the airlock system, but there's no Orbital Shock in such a solution, yeah?