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So if I understand everyone correctly for starting a fortress that does not die performance death I should:

Embark 1x1
Small+young world
Limit Caverns
No trees
Don't build stairs
pop below 50
no sieges
don't produce rotting clothes
destroy all excess items
don't mess with water
don't dig out much
no animals

Forgot anything? Maybe I try playing this game again maybe it can still be fun with the outside raids and such but those above measures drastically reduce the fun in a fortress.

Just my thoughts on this:
First. Learn to love traffic zones. Set your main hallways and stairs to 'high' traffic priority. It's my understanding that the game will attempt to path through 'high' priotries. You can also set medium (default) and low priorities as well as restricted. Dwarves will never path through restricted zones unless they need to, even if it takes them to the other side of the map.

I find 1x1 embarks rather fun, I enjoy forts that span z-levels. I can usually fit a fort for 80 dwarves on 5 levels, and have everything they need including temples and taverns.

I enjoy young world's,  more nasty beasts to fight.

I never limit caverns and I don't usually have fps issues.

I embark on deserts or tundras usually, and I import all my wood. Easier than designating trees to be cut.

I think 60 dwarves is a good number. Gives me 20 military dwarves, nobles, and more workers than I know what to do with.

Rest is pretty accurate I suppose, but I enjoy sieges. Instead of atomsmashing (too much micro management) I like to set up a few minecarts that get filled with my junk using stockpiles and such, and I push them down into the magma sea

if the last version you played was 0.31.25, then there'd be a very long list of changes.

Heh, last version I played was. 34. I've played ocassionaly since then but never managed to get past getting a tavern set up.
I'm loving the world activation, and libraries seem cool once I figure out how they're used... And pedestals are a thing now which is awesome.

My question is, would fps be worse on a medium world than a small? I've been playing small world's, but I'm use to large. Planning to try a multigenerational fort by setting the cap to like 60 dwarves.

It's always four bars per boulder of ore. Making bronze from ore requires two boulders, so you get eight bars. Same for other alloys you can make directly from ore.

Edit: Some ores do in fact have a chance of producing a second type of metal. This is limited to tetrahedrite (20% chance of silver) and galena (50% chance of silver). They count as silver ore if you're making alloys from ore.

It's been a while since it was one bar. That was back when your chance of getting a mined boulder scaled with the miner's skill level.

Thanks for the info! I didn't see it mentioned in the wiki as to how many bars per ore, unless I missed it.

Just remembered another trick. 
Dig everything you want to hollow out as stairs, then remove them from the top down.

probably the safest.

I found booze drops too much hassle. I do an airlock room type. So let's say we have the room the dwarf stays in, say room 1. Well to get to the fort proper the dwarf needs to leave room one through another room (the airlock) which is sealed with a bridge or a door (depends on circumstances)

I lock the dwarf in room 1, fill the airlock with supplies, then reseal the airlock and allow the dwarf access to the airlock to collect said supplies. The airlock varies, from being a 3x3 up to 20x20.

Should be noted I don't normally drop off supplies, instead I pick up supplies. Such as rock crafts and such.

If you wanted to drop off booze though a simple way to do it:

1) Make the airlock a stockpile.
2) assign this stockpile to take from links
3) make the linking stockpile your main booze stock
4) make a stockpile in room 1
5) make this stockpile take from the airlock stockpile

Anytime your dwarf in room 1 needs supplies just lock the airlock from his room, fill the stockpile with needed supplies using above method, unlock the airlock (be sure to lock it from the fort proper first)

Voila. The micromanagement is pretty much none, since I often give the dwarf a year of supplies minimum. Normally because I only check every fall or some such. Unless I have a cool werebeast, then they become the center attraction I'm a glass room in middle of my dining hall. Results in !!FUN!! When you forget to lock the airlock.

Ptw

Awesome fortress!  I haven't played in a couple years but reading this has made me want to try another fort.

Reading this makes me want to make a multi generational fort.

Weird I would think df on Linux would be more unstable. I have yet to crash, I'm using LNP. Perhaps it's a Windows only issue? I've heard the crashes may be linked to dfhacks job manager (I use dwarf therapist)