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None of my zones allow outside visitors, so other than 3 monster slayers (which didn't participate) there have been no other sources of visitors

I don't use experimental branch, and maybe this has been fixed, but the zone restrictions aren't working correctly (tested most in 50.07). I have temples with citizens only setting which still houses everyone and their mother, from all across the continent, for example.

Also, it is possible to have visits from two factions which are at war.

What I understand from your description, it started with valid targets (goblin snatchers) attacked by your animals, and then your military properly got involved. The collateral victims were only visitors. But maybe the visitors were friendly to goblins, or were attacked accidentally (which happens, and can trigger a loyalty cascade).

And yes, critters can slam themselves into a wall (possibly hitting another creature), probably when tripped, happens mostly in crowded corridors and staircases.

You can check what civ the barons are from - they may be barons from another site of your civ, but they can also be from a completely different civ.

I've noticed another room allocation bug; if I assign a room to a noble who is also in the military and send them out on a mission, the room allocations are erased and have to be assigned again once they get back.
I suspect this may happen if they're on staggered duty too, but have yet to confirm.

This is an old bug. The room allocations for squad leaders are not removed (if I remember correctly), and if a spouse is assigned to the room, then his/her military guy is also assigned automatically when returning. But all others are removed and need to be reassigned after the mission. For this reason I always make note with names of the squad members (in pre v.50.) or name the rooms themselves (in v.50.x.), so it is easier to reassign them later.

I would reconstruct just in case. Or you could wait for one month (or slightly more) and see if the trade button disappears.

Maybe the interrogation procedure involves full body search, which requires disrobing... Very oppressive civ you got there, I think.

According to SeerSkye on the DFHack Discord, there's a bug where it's checking the assigned job material instead of the item material to determine if it's valid. You can only get large gems and crafts if you set the job material instead of doing a generic "cut gem" job.

Might be. I always set specific gems (because I don't want to lose rock crystal), and have a tons of large gems.

I recommend the version of water reactor called Micro Water Reactor on that page (the one involwing dumping minecart). It works at 100%, and is super compact, but also scalable, you can disable or enable it on demand by lever, no water loss etc. It works years in my fortress in Steam version without issue. Two wheels power a mist generator (four pumps) and four millstones with some spare power.

Forbidding works for me, though I had no adamantine requirements in current version yet - I usually forbid magma-unsafe metal or stone to use magma safe ones. Also, I forbid when the dwarf is on the way, so he comes with the forbidden item to the workshop, drops it, and then goes for the replacement.

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Is throwing more cores at a highly CPU bound problem really being obtuse or just a logical conclusion? Optimizations are always good but at a certain point your choices really are 'do less' or 'more compute'

You're assuming it's CPU bound rather than memory bound.

It's more of an educated guess seeing as the utilization of one core is always 100% when playing the game.

In the interests of being thorough though I went and underclocked my CPU to 2ghz from 3.7ghz and my FPS went from 38 to 20
And then returning the CPU to normal underclocked my ram from 3200mhz to 1600mhz and found my FPS went back to 38

During my tests in previous years the conclusion always was that the FPS rate is directly proportional to the CPU speed (single core), and in any given CPU doubling this speed doubles FPS. Effectively older CPUs with higher performance of single core were better than new ones. I even make decisions of upgrades of my platforms based solely on expected Dwarf Fortress performance

Older CPUs have universally worse single-core performance, I have no idea where the idea that they're better comes from. You can run a 6 GHz Pentium 4 and the game will not run it well, not even remotely. It will crash and burn, literally, on both counts, but even if it didn't, it wouldn't run nearly as well as a modern CPU running at 2 GHz.

I didn't mean as old as Pentium 4, there's too much difference in technology (over two decades), but rather different generations of intel core.

Currently only believers are cursed... So unless you are invaded by dwarves of your own religion, then this trap won't work. But it used to work in earlier versions.

Besides, I'm not sure if changing a goblin into a weremammoth would do much good to your defences