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Barely renovated mine.

I follow mineral veins for hallways and carve out rooms from the "ordinary" stone around them, occasionally ramping up or down by a level or two for maximum pathing issues. (I find that getting lost makes it hard for a siege to massacre the civilians, should they break through the first lines of defense.) Usually this design is rather on the "Oh crap I'm lost and dying of thirst" side so it helps to have multiple dining halls, wells and food stockpiles scattered about.

I like the idea of dwarves being so single-minded on digging up wealth and partying that they simply don't put any thought into city-planning or other "pointless elfy things" like that.

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 Last Lord Uruk still alive and got custom profession "Highlander". But he doesn't really care about it anymore. He didn't had single mandate or demand from start, so i still have no idea what he likes ._.
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Why don't you just look at his recent thoughts and preferences?

Would the fixed temperature of Nethercap barrels insulate liquids from freezing? Or is that too cold/not possible?

I embarked on a glacier and I'm trying to brew bloodwine, but all my blood keeps freezing so the fort is entirely too reliant on trade for my preferences.

I am exactly like that in real life. Spooky.

All of my children are extremely unwelcome by nature, any idea how I can avoid this?

Are razing invaders on? 'Cause I just imagined a titan showing up, destroying a few floor tiles, and sinking the entire "fortress" before you can mobilize any kobold mobs. EDIT: Or worse, what if they punch a hole in one of the walls keeping the water out?
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Kobold me too? If possible, I wanna be delusional from drinking too much seawater on the way there and have an imaginary pet parrot named Paco.

Pick your favorite ranged weapon-ammo set and only make those, melt/destroy everything else. If Marksdwarves have only one weapon to pick from then they will only use those weapons and you won't have this problem.

*Shudders at the thought of more than 2 fire-mages*

It's really just picking a magic sphere and tailoring your economy to it; what I do is set up 5-8 stockpiles near the school/altars for the specific reagents. (Platinum bars, paper, and orichalcum bars plus the reagents for joining the specific schools) For fire you'd need to make a concentrated effort to acquire surplus obsidian, coke, oil, and ash; so I'd suggest embarking on a volcano and also farming pig-tails and tree saplings. (Volcano for easier access to obsidian and less coke-use, crops for renewable oil and logs to burn.) Alternative to a volcano embark, you could use magmalings and waterlings to build an obsidian "farm"; alternative to everything I just said, focus on whatever industries you're best at and just trade for the reagents. There's lots of options for everything, really.