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You Don't need mechanisms for a pump, you only need a block, a screw, and a pipe, unless your plainning on something nore complex then just a screw pump. It won't be needed.

All the more reason to just tunnel through.

Noting as we have aquifer on aquifer, I suggest the double slit method for bashing through an aquifer. otherwise, we risk damage to the fort with constant cave-ins. In addition, I recommend digging around the space between the aquifers with exploratory tunnels, and see if there is another way through.

To that end, I nag the carpenter about building parts for wooden screw pumps.

With nothing else to do, your dwarves automatically train social skills. If you want to train a skill, have a dwarf use that skill. For me, I make sure only a handful of non nobles have lots of downtime. If nothing else, I put everyone into crafts or farming.

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Tiger, as he is known to the others, tends to be a very quiet, and reserved person, but even he can agree to the need for better sleeping quarters, and is more then willing to make them as best that he can manage, to further his art, which Tiger is fairly obsessed about. As the rooms get carved, he sets about smoothing the stone to a fine polish. All of the walls in the least, the floors also in main areas, but no engravings, not yet.

If that is not needed, and we start getting a surplus of stone, set me about making pots and crafts. Also, get the mason to make a few slabs and coffins. Best to be prepared for the worst.

Tiger carries his tools with him everywhere, and will polish them at the end of each day. He has an obsession to detail. If the tools are flawed in any way, he will make new ones.

When my dwarf is at least master, start making a few engravings, where appropriate.

(Standing orders)

When you abandon a fort, the objects get scattered everywhere, so it is very possible for an item to end up stuck in the magma sea, caverns or even HFS

Creatures that were on the map also get scattered, even if they were walled in. Anytime I abandon a fort, where the caverns below have one or more FB, I am almost guarenteed to find said FBs on the surface on reclaim.

I made an earring with 160 engravings