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Yes, using minecarts. If you load a minecart full of logs from the collection stockpile, then send the minecart to a second stop and unload 50% of the logs into a carpenter-only stockpile, then send the minecart to a third stop and unload 25% of the logs, etc. The workshops should be linked to their supply piles, limited by burrow restrictions, or even physically isolated from each other. If any of the supply piles fills up the "overflow" will move to the next stockpile in line (which can be used creatively to divert excess resources to another pile, such as your plump helmet example). By telling your dwarves to unload everything at a stop, the next stop will only receive resources when the prior supply pile is full.

Minecarts are limited to 25% load granularity, but you can approximate higher resolution by using multiple routes or stops.

The "furniture" ones are listed on the furniture page:

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Furniture#Furniture_types_with_multiple_names

Only 5 bars of soap is stored in chests in hospital zone. The chests are closer to all 5 wells, then the soap QS. Should I relocate the stockpile to one of those two zones with wells?

I suspect that soap in a hospital zone is not available for personal use. As long as some soap is outside the hospital I would expect it to work.

Try copying your save and then removing all your locations to see if idle dwarves suddenly remember to bathe.

In my latest embark I have two zones over 5 underground wells with fresh water pumped from river. "Hospital-Active" zone over 2 wells and "Water Source-Active" over 3 other wells. Soap is stockpiled on 1x1 quantum stockpile for soap only (only from links, no bins, regular quantum stockpile), so access to soap is not limited in any way and I have 130 soap bars out of 5 animal tallow. Some of those bars of soap are stored in hospital in chests.

No soap baths take place there. What am I missing?

Is your soap stockpiled in a hospital zone?

More to the point, should I not have gotten a "damp stone," warning? I don't see one in the game log, at any rate.

The game only provides the warning and cancellation when a designated-but-unrevealed tile is revealed to be damp. Since the tiles you designated were already revealed (the bank of a brook) and known to be damp (flashing blue-liquid on the designation screen), you would not receive any further warning.

What is the most effective way to dig 1x1 hole across 100 z-levels?

Dig your chute using up/down stairs instead, then channel just the top tile. Liquids, items, and minecarts that are already falling when they reach the stairs will fall all the way down to the bottom of the stairwell.

One issue I ran into was that falling water creates mist, which washed contaminants off dwarves, but the mist might spread to either side of your designated washing area, causing contaminants to drop on the floor outside of it where there's no liquid flow to remove them. For me, this killed the viability of any shower-type system.

Mist doesn't spread diagonally. Here's a mist-containment shower room:





And here is a functioning example save of an unpowered dwarven shower (v0.44.05):

http://dffd.bay12games.com/file.php?id=13443