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I think I may have embarked with a civ that has no king/leader also. The only notable people listed in civ screen is the liason. Does this mean I will be unable to get a baron etc?

Why do you guys keep making more food stockpiles when you clearly have too much already? I just limit my food stockpile and let excess food rot.

nomad_delta is right dfprospector does not list layer stones.

Its possible that the new dfprospector version (5.14 I think) does show layer stones but it doesn't work for me, instead it lists a bunch of gibberish. So I use 5.13 instead as it actually works. Not sure if I'm using it wrong or other windows users have this problem but it lists the same gibberish for me on both XP and vista.

I don't think sand, (as in the powder, not the bag that holds it) has been weaponized.

Ya he will live.

Just because it says he can't stand now doesn't mean he won't stand when treatment is done. So long as there wasn't nerve damage or lose of a limb he will be able to walk when the doctor is done.

Traction should take at most a season if it takes longer than that it might be bug'd and you'll have to deconstruct the bench. I usually give it a two seasons before I do that though.

I had this bug and my dwarf was still stuck in unconscious mode even after the traction bench was removed. I had to build a cage trap under him to get him functioning again.

So I am confused as to how the levels work.

The goblin is on a puller. So around him is one z level lower.
The door dwarf is at the same height as the goblin, running around his little circle of raised level. (I assume there will be a ramp or a door up there for him.

The mark dwarf is all the way across the map at the same level.

But my question is how do you keep the mark dwarf at the correct distance? Is he up a level or something? I would expect there to be a huge ditch in front of him so that he could not run to the goblin and get closer.

Fortifications and a locked room I assume.

Well not really that fast, but still the fastest for me, about a year into of my first forts I had pierced the aquifer and had all my dwarves in nice stone living quarters, when I forgot it was there and accidentally unleashed it upon my fort which was now entirely under the aquifer. If I recall I lost most of my 20 dwarves to drowning, with only the woodcutter and the plant gather/farmer still alive. All my food and picks were underwater so I decided to abandon as I had no way to dig and try and drain the fort.

Like you I was frustrated with worldgen, aquifers everywhere and iron never in the same place as flux stone. Increasing the mineral frequency seems to only give you massive amounts of gold and galena. I find the default generator very unsatisfactory. Use advanced world gen instead, its very simply you only have to change 2 parameters, I ignore the rest since I don't understand them.

I set mineral scarcity in advanced world gen to 700, and generated a region rather than islands (this drastically reduces the amount of aquifers present), left everything else at default. Why 700? According to the graph on the wiki it looked like the sweet spot between getting a decent variety before the ore quantity starts to ramp up ridiculously, and I assume this would make it harder to find flux. The very first site I embarked on had flux, sand, a brook with no aquifer, two types of iron ore, gold, galena, tetrahedrite and cassiterite. Basically everything I wanted first gen and first embark. Admittedly theres no coal but since I'm in a forest its no problem, though I'm sure if I wanted it wouldn't take too long to find a site with some, the ore variety in this world seems so much better than the worlds I generated using the default world gen.