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It gets interesting once clothing starts to wear out.  If you're cranking out tunics as fast as you can, and ignoring dresses and robes, then some dwarves who already had dresses and robes are going to start getting bad thoughts as their clothes become old and worn, and eventually fall off entirely.  But once all the dresses and robes are gone, your dwarves won't care, as long as they have tunics, shirts or cloaks.

I agree with the rest of what you said, but in my experience dwarves aren't upset by xClothesx, but will drop them or store them in their cabinet and get other clothes that show no wear if they're available.  You shouldn't get any bad thoughts in that situation.

Regarding your "serial killer", do you have a hammerer (check your Nobles screen)?  It could be that your hammerer is out "dispensing justice" after the tantrums with an especially lethal weapon, and killing the past tantrumers in the process.  You might want to check your justice screen and see if that's happening.  You can mostly prevent that by setting up jails, though getting a weaker hammerer with a lousy weapon will also help.

This is what is called a Planepacked artifact (also "quantum artifact" and "mega-artifact"), named after the first artifact to show such a ridiculous accumulation of materials and images.  The end of that wiki article explains how they are created.

Where did you learn this? I've never seen anyone else state that melee weapons are less accurate when wielded with just one hand.

The Weapon article in the "Size" section shows the size limitations on various weapons and the odds that some dwarves will be able to wield them at all, one-handed, or two-handed.  The "Foreign weapons" section above that mentions, "Using any multigrasp weapon in a single hand (ie. with a shield in the other hand) gives you a disability to hit. Do not equip two-handed swords with a shield, for instance."

You might want to either make a larger entranceway or more entrances so that it's easier for dwarves to get in and out of there.  For corridors I'd suggest making them at least 3 wide, but for rooms it depends on how many are likely to be simultaneously entering and exiting it.  Dwarves move more slowly if they have to path through each other.

I may be missing something, but isn't that basically this from the wiki?

Well, back in v0.34.07, where it was supposedly fixed, I had a child that didn't have a shirt that was getting bad thoughts from that.  The only reason why though was that I didn't have any spare shirts for her to pick up (I'd just run out of shirts when she became a child, and other dwarves kept claiming them first after I started making more).  I mainly remember this because I was amused that her description also mentioned that she was "immodest".  Even the current bug report I linked to above points out that children still had bad thoughts from not wearing clothing in v0.34.07.

I'm speculating a bit here, but I think the pre-.07 problem was that babies were getting bad thoughts from not having clothing and being unable to get them, and the bad thoughts would sometimes drive them over the edge about the same time they became children.  Toady's bugfix prevented the bad thoughts on babies (not children), thus allowing children much more time to go and clothe themselves before going mad.

I agree that we'll probably need "word of God" to find out if that's what he really meant though.

So falling items now damage things they land on. Do falling creatures still get cushioned by another creature in a fall, or do both explode into a hilarious mess?

I'm almost positive that creatures are no longer cushioned by landing on other creatures, and now both creatures suffer collision damage.  This may or may not include exploding and/or hilarity. 

Already reported and being studied by Toady:

Bug #5903: Crash on promoting hauling stop past route title, past top entry