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Woooow, this is fascinating. Maybe in 10 years DF will do this on it's own. Keep going, I'd love to hear more!

The only reason it could end up being so long is that there's no structure for graphical and audio immersion, since OP's work involved little creativity because most of the creativity was by Dwarf Fortress.
With Toady's efficiency of work, he could probably make a rudimentary MIDI generator in several hours, then automate the whole pipeline with a little more work.
Making the instruments sound realistic and not MIDI-like could be hard though, that'd require him to make Dwarf Fortress work with sophisticated synthetic instruments, which would use a lot of data and legally be unwieldy.

After collapsing a structure (which somehow had a now-deceased child on it even though I checked to see that all the dwarf bodies on it were dead), I noticed that there was a suspended fortification hovering in the air which had almost finished building. I cancelled it, and that caused the construction material to fall away.
Falling construction materials can be very dangerous; the thing that killed that child was having his head exploded by a log, which is relatively light. What's the heaviest item this trick could be done with? Magicking gold blocks onto your enemies sounds like fun.
Also, is it possible to put a caged giant sperm whale (or just a corpse) in a minecart? If you got a gold minecart with a weight in the bajillions to collide with a lightweight wooden minecart, you would have a minecart travelling so fast it's pretty much a magic barrier around your fortress. 10k deceleration per tile doesn't mean much if the cart refreshes its speed with each circuit of your fort and is travelling so fast anyway that the cart isn't seen coming due to being blueshifted into ultraviolet.

0.40 seemed like an improvement, and what was added to get from 0.34 to 0.40 was vital to proceed to 0.42.

Could this work, or would attackers automatically know the correct way to go?

Unretiring this fort brought a couple oddities. All friendly civs have merchants that keep hanging around, and there's an axelf(!) clad in full steel(!!!!!) just sort of loitering about. I also found a bin stuffed with a minecraft stuffed with more bins and various other pieces of armor seem to have warped off of my militia and onto the "Friendly" people on the map.

axelf

minecraft

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5g0kYZhxpEI

But, if you obsidian-casted the ocean, why did you embark near an ocean in the first place. :p

Thought it would look cool.
Didn't expect such bad performance.

How can dwarvern engineering fix this?

Here's an idea for guarding a fort against tantrum spirals:
Just give the fort two burrows, to prevent socializing between two halves of the fort.
And if a tantrum spiral breaks out, then it can be sealed off without consequences for the unassociated safe half of the fort.