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I often modify the dwarves to mature into adults at 4-6 year olds. That way the can actually become useful before I get bored with the fort.
Plus it's fun having a militia full of 6 year olds with axes.

I just lost two dwarves, with several more injured, to falling worn out clothing.

I have a new micro trash pit, one square channeled out with only diagonal access so dwarves pitch stuff down into it and miasma can't get out.

I forgot to deactivate the zone before ordering the retrieval of some worthwhile items that had gotten in there.

So some hapless haulers head on down and their buddies happily pitched worn out socks and elk legs and such onto their heads.

Heh, I just had a similar thing happen to me. I was digging a well (30z from top to botton)  next to my main staircase and after finishing I ordered all the stones to be dumped so they wouldn't be left in the bottom of the cistern. Soon bodies started building up in the bottom.. Yep, 3 dead and 2 wounded hailers later I realized that the only available garbage dump was next to the very same pit around 20z higher.

Well, you could try using glass walls (building destroyers won't target them nor can they destroy them) instead of windows and build it so that you have a way of sealing parts of it incase you get an unwanted creature wandering around. (a bit like in resurrecting fortresses with numerous doors, alternative staircases and gates separating different parts of the fort. This will easily lead to a fort with 30 mysterious levers though.) In this case perhaps raising bridges behind the glass in order to prevent the water from flooding in if the window gets broken. Then you can just drain the room from the water that managed to get in and fix the windows before lowering the gates again.

Personally I think that no fort is perfect unless it has a slightly flawed defence so that there always is a small chance of FUN.

Edit: You can also use workshops/furniture as a bait for the destroyers. Also, invaders aim for your meeting hall so make sure the the way there doesn't go straight through your project. That way they shouldn't come there unless they are chasing your dwarves. (Though a statuegarden will attract them) Otherwise you could ofcourse keep the area separated from the rest of the fort but that would be boring.

I just cheat and assign labors to them. They make great candy miners and pit diggers since they are expendable. I have also noticed that either they are extremely lucky or they just survive falling damage much better adults. I just had 2 2year olds fall 10z and both survived without any fatal damage. One even started walking away until passing out.

Setting up a cloth industry is not that hard.

All you need is some crossbows, bolts and elven caravans.

The side products of this kind of cloth industry is a shitload crap, that you can trade for even more cloth with the other caravans.

Such a waste of bolts. Just seal them in a chamber and start dropping wooden logs and barrels of lye on them until their mules die and drop their cargo. Then you can just let the hippies flee in terror. Be creative! Personally im just lazy and use bridges to drop them in a pit and dump magma on them. Those ¤Figures of elves taming bobcats¤ and *Featherwood trumpets* burn well...

DOUBLE UPDATE: Tantrum spiral is in full throttle, any ideas on how to stop it?

Seal everyone who you can in the rooms they are in and let them kill each other. A handful should stay alive or calm down and be able to continue running the fort (ie. crafting coffins for the next few seasons ) until the next migrant wave (which will most likely be big). As an extra benefit, the survivors will nolonger care much about anything and most of their relatives will be dead.

Make them wield weapons made from the bones of the vanquished tree murderers! Perhaps not the most powerful possible material but atleast it would suit their ethics.