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I finally figured it out!

First of all, every single piece of stone inside my fortress was , for some reason, forbidden. That wasn't the problem, though.

Every time I designated the walls, my dwarves assumed they'd use some of the thousands of stones laying out on the entire layer I dug out. That was outside the burrow, so they figured they couldn't do the job.

I had to forbid every stone on the map. (There's over 12,000; it took a long time to load the menu.) After that, I had to unforbid the stones in my fort. Then I could designate the walls.

This is the most trouble I've ever had with these dwarves...

I think he plans to work on it some time after the caravans and markets are "finished." (Finished meaning, being deemed good and not going to be significantly changed for a while, if at all.) Right now it's too broken to even consider using. It's broken in the gameplay sense, but I don't know specifics. With all that it would involve now, there's definitely no simple fix for it.

If you wanted to try it out, it was sort of working a while ago. Can't remember what versions, though.

You should try a birdfall; I've used it, and it has some great effects. Put its usable levels about 20-50z above your main gate - or dining hall.

Well, I made a sphere. Kind of small, but pretty cool. It worked well, and had plenty of room for dwarves - up to a dozen or so, probably best for 7.

Other than that... probably my current fort. I'm carving a castle out of the ground. As in, removing all ground but the walls; natural stone walls and floor. It's a fortress in a crater, but still impressive. Work has been coming along well, and I was just about ready to collapse the surface and a couple of useless layers... but a siege arrived. I have absolutely no defense, and can't close it up before they start the slaughter. I'll likely just let it die and reclaim it.

It's the same burrow. I just made the burrow, assigned the dwarves, then activated the alert. I realize that step 2 could have been skipped; are you saying I should unassign them from the burrow, even though it's the same one?

You mean I didn't have to assign 84 individual dwarves to the burrow? 

Thank you very much. Now my fortress will probably survive!

Back to the artifact... My dwarves won't move it. I need it moved, along with other things, so I made a stockpile including cut gems. Does an artifact gem not count as a cut one? If not, how can I move it? It can't be dumped.

EDIT: Another single-material artifact to call into question... a larch chair. One of my carpenters made an artifact chair out of only one larch log. Encircled with bands of larch. It's only worth 2400. I tried to use it to make my mayor an amazing all-purpose room, but I hadn't realized how cheap it was...