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Not all evil clouds are created equal! Evil soot or ash leaves a residue. Fog, mist, and vapor do not.

[WEATHER_CREEPING_VAPOR] clouds are liquid, so they do leave residues.

Dear Urist McFisherdwarf,

It baffles me why you thought standing on the frozen river to fish in the thawed water just as the ice was about to melt was a good idea.  And that's after you apparently tried to strand yourself on the other side but fortuitously decided to stop fishing in the empty pool.  And this not a week into our settlement in this fairy-besotted forest, and without you catching one godsdamned mussel.  That got our outpost off to a fair start, didn't it.

Looking forward to eating cockroaches next month,
Urist McExpeditionLeader

EDIT: Well, apparently he made it out alive now, which is a relief.  Hopefully he doesn't do something that stupid again.

Also makes mail armour actually worth making.

I tend to make forts around very deep stairwells.  I put different industries on each level and arrange them so the materials they make and produce are closest to one another to use.  At the moment, I have these (this is in a mod I'm working on, so some things are different than in vanilla):

G: trade depot, general stockpile
-1: farms (indoor subterranean and outdoor greenhouse)
-2: underground pastures + tree-farm
-3: breweries, mills, presses, farmers' workshops (connected from second stairwell from -2; would switch about -2 and -3 but there's soil only on the first two layers)
-4: shearers' and spinners', hen-house, restraints for animals (connected by a second stairwell from -4), looms and dyers
-5: textile + leather industry
-6: butcheries, tanneries and fisheries
-7: wood furnaces, soapmaking industry
-8: hospital + well
-9: barracks + well
-10: common dining room + well, food + drink stockpiles
-11: water reservoir, pumped from river
-12: furniture industry (carpentry, masonry)
-13: crafts and jewelry
-14: engineering
-15: glassworks
-16: kilns (with second stairwell from -7 to transport potash for pearlash)
-17: charcoal furnaces, smelters, ironworks
-18: alchemist's laboratories (includes transmutation workshops and workshops for extracting rare metals with acid)
-19: forges, foundries
-20: magma reservoir, from magma piston; magma gets pumped from here up to -15.
-21: [Empty now, will be the royal rooms.]
-22: Noble quarters, offices, dining halls in large "hive" design
-23: Legendary quarters in smaller "hive" design
-24~-30: Apartment in "Greek cross" design, accommodating 32 rooms in each level
-31: Statue garden
-32: Zoo, animal training
-33: Gaol
-34: Goblin + assorted hostile storage
-35: Refuse stockpile, mass-pitting, atomsmasher
-43: Entrance and bridge to 1st cavern
-46: Catacombs
-47: Necropolis for nobles, legendary soldiers, etc.
-48: Vampire pit
-50~-54: [Plans for various projects, including a labyrinth.]
-56: Entrance to 2nd cavern

If I remember right, the population cap only takes effect after the dwarven caravan has come and gone.

I had a child fail a strange mood in the first autumn.  I had no idea what she was doing except saying "bones... yes...", so I left her alone.  She went berserk and killed two of my starting seven, by which time they were friends with all the other founders. Tantrum spiral ensued thereafter. And I didn't even see the caravan... 

Dear children,

Stop crying about not having clothes to wear.  There's a dozen tunics and trousers and shoes lying about.

- Your Exasperated Overlord

There is something enormously problematic that you've neglected here. Dusk husks are infectious. Attacking them just makes you have a load of dwarf husks attacking you.

I thought I had mentioned syndrome dust already?  I'll clarify that and mention the infection danger.

It's better of course to wait inside until the rain washes the dust away.