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Floor fungus isnt bad, neither is cave moss.

The only problem of having underground flora growing in your fortress is all the goddam underground trees popping up in undesirable places. Godam its like an invasion and you cant cut the things quickly enough.
Also, clogged watterways and all the drained caverns turning into an impassable jungle in less than a couple of years unless you do some heavy road building just to make the caverns passable.

Problem is, once affected by a syndrome, you can only hope it goes away. The only thing DFHack can do is remove the pools of Forgotten Beast Extract that are infecting youre dwarves.
If its a short-term syndrome what I would suggest is to build a dwarven bathtub to clean away any extract covering your dwarves and then using the dfhack dfcleanmap to eliminate the fb extract in the bathtub.

Might be. This needs further testing, to the labs!

But in any case Ive found that trying to make a bee industry is a waste of time unless you have enough bees to keep your waxwokers and bee-keepers busy. Because they never ever get around to collecting beehive products. EVER. And even then its hardly enough to do anything with.

Narcotics and their effects on dwarves. They are immune to ethanol (total habituation), but nobody said they are immune to others. They are poor creatures, because they can't smoke or inject something pleasant, which will make them happy. I'd start with weed.

Weed is for punny real world humans. Dwarves get high smoking dried Death-Cap wood and injecting mogjuice and gnomeblight into their veins.

Actually, according to the wiki, Toady said that population number is the population per biome square. So if you have a large amount of forest, you'll get more animals. Furthermore, frequency affects how often you see animals, not whether or not they appear.

This is from the wiki, but I'm not sure how up-to-date that is. We need some science done.

Im currently digging down to the third cavern to see wether or not theres anything down there. I get the feeling that cavern animals choose the lowermost cavern you have discovered to spawn.

It could be that all the cool animals are in that unexplored 90%.

Yeah thats what Im thinking too. I guess its time to move on to the third cavern layer. Which is a pain because Ive JUST finished taming the second cavern layer.

You are not guaranteed to get every type of creature possible for your map.  Also, the type of biome you've settled in can limit what kind of creatures you can get.

Voracious cave crawlers only appear in non-benign regions, and only will be present on your map 50% of the time.
Crundles only appear in non-benign regions.
Giant cave spiders only appear in savage regions, and only 20% of the time.
Reachers, trolls, blind cave ogres and maneras only appear in evil, non-benign regions.  Reachers, blind cave ogres and trolls are only present 50% of the time, and maneras only 10%.
Gorlaks are only present in good regions, and only 25% of the time.

You may simply have been unlucky when the game decided to pick your local wildlife.  You may also have embarked in a benign region.  Try embarking in a savage evil region if you want more dangerous wildlife.

But I HAVE gotten all of those on this fort earlier. They just suddenly stopped apearing save for pond grabbers.

The POPULATION_NUMBER tag is also important. GCS's only have 3:4, meaning you'll only get that many per biome, which either means you'll only get that many in your caverns, or get that many per distinct cavern biome with a map edge. Good and Evil tags are meaningless underground, the Evil tag just means a civ needs to be able to use both evil and cave animals to use them. My current fort is two or three kinds of Untamed Wilds, and thus neutral savage, on the surface and I got a troll in the caverns a bit ago.

Wait does that mean Im only ever gonna get 4 GCS spawn per fort and once the fourth spawns no other CGS will ever enter the map?

Definitely agree on using training spears if your going to do a danger room. menacing wooden spike traps fully loaded can kill alot of goblins and even multiple trolls easily. Very easy to make if you have timber. Though if you just assign 10 dwarfs to a squad and assign a barracks to the squad and leave them inactive they should do individual training alot. Only put them to active training when you want them to be ready and geared to go or want group training and demonstrations done in stuff like dodging and blocking. I find doing all that gets decent military without the need for the borderline cheating that I feel danger rooms are.

Ive been experimenting with military training and have found that NOTHING (save for a danger room) beats having 10 trolls with all their armor on on cages linked to a lever,asigning your squad to the room, locking the room once theyre all in, and pulling the lever.
The trolls will almost always try running for your doors due to the siege they came in having left, which means all your dwarves have to do is hack them to pieces. Quick and easy exp. I would place a mechanism stockpile next to the room for maximum efficiency because linking 10 cages to a trigger takes quite a while.
Havent tried dodge training yet but im guessing leaving all gobbos with their weapons on, save for the elites of course, should be enough.