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[Urist McPanzerbeard]

I never engrave floors. I know it increases the value of the room, but be serious now; my dwarves have enough misery in their lives without having to spend their lives walking over scenes of burning pachyderms and drowning goblins.

[Xingu]

I have been playing for almost five years, but I've never taken the time to figure out how to use mine carts. I assume they are probably useful but I usually have idle dwarves so hauling isn't too big of an issue.

I also usually give each of my dwarves long rectangular rooms, usually about 3 by 10. I just can't stand my dwarves being being crammed into little rooms. I also give my nobles gigantic rooms that are completely smooved and engraved. Even though they don't actually do anything, they make me feel like I'm running a real city and not just a little outpost.

[Agent_Irons]

Along with the too-big bedrooms and the useless towers, I invariably spend wayyy too much time testing and redesigning intricate flooding traps only to be surprised by goblins earlier than expected and find my trapdoors don't actually work. This happens roughly 80% of the time, if there's running water on the surface. 50% if there's surface magma. The magma flooding my fortress entrance-first accounts for the other 50%.

[Naryar]

I tend to hoard tame animals.

Also I tend to spread out my forts on 2-3 z-levels, or even one if I can (aka: soil and rock on the same z-level). It's just cleaner.

[Ultimuh]

I always dig a 20 z-level deep pit at my entrance, with one retractable bridge.
Them bones are not going to appear by themselves.
(Enabling Dwarves to eat and make use of humanoid corpses is also a thing I often do.)

[Itnetlolor]

I always dig a 20 z-level deep pit at my entrance, with one retractable bridge.
Them bones are not going to appear by themselves.
(Enabling Dwarves to eat and make use of humanoid corpses is also a thing I often do.)

In a similar fashion, you can always make 2 retractable bridges, and an airlock out of it, and do that 20-Z pit in between. Fit more volunteers for parachute-free BASE jumping. Or more specifically FORT jumping.

Spoiler: Naturally, I've done my own ‼science‼ with this to much greater extremes. (click to show/hide)

Even if they were to make it to that single-tile of safety, it doubles as an atom-smasher.

Spoiler: Original Plans/fort design in which it would have been implemented (click to show/hide)

EDIT:
With that setup in the first spoiler, I also intended to make a minecart railgun to further torment my invaders. Shooting from the front door, down the line, and the arcing trajectory falls into the extension/catcher of my fort, independent from the ground (about (-1z)-(-3z) below the bridge approx 4-10 tiles away) to reload the minecart railgun directly. That minecart recovery stalactite also doubles as a sentry tower to pop off invaders from a distance with open ground separating my marksdwarves from the invaders.

[Snake Eyes]

-Dwarves have their names stripped from them; same with animals, if I have dfhack. (re.g. VAMP-M-21-34, ADV-ELF-F-001, DWRF-F-00-01, DOG-F-001)
-Rigid embark profiles (weapon/armorsmith, cave spider silk thread, dogs, cats, peabirds, pigs, iron anvil, seeds, drinks, some food, etc.)
-Rigid fortress designs (I call it a "heatsink" fortress due to the shape).
-Notes... down to what I traded for what, and the trader's mood/traders' profit margins on the specific day. (Great for tracking arrival/unloading/packing/departure times, and comparing the acceptable profit margins for the gullible elf traders to the greedy dwarf traders. Also great for me returning to old forts.)
-Sustainable resources: animals, sand, clay, water, magma, plants.

Spoiler: example of naming system (click to show/hide)

DWRF-F-00-01 (dwarf, female, starting seven, first of) is a MINER/STONEWORKER/!non-Mining (Mining, Stoneworking labors/Stonecrafting/stone-hauling disabled, non-Mining labors disabled temporarily).

She will likely become Legendary in Mining first through mining out the fort, and be named Native Silver Pick (Mining/STONEWORKING; Legendary Mining, Stoneworking labors/Stonecrafting, hauling entirely disabled for her Legendary skill) for her love of native silver and her Legendary Mining. Had she become Legendary in a crafting skill through a non-possessed mood, she would have been named after her creation and given a personal workshop.