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[Sutremaine]

Although i suspect it would still be too fast as a fresh fort with unskilled dwarves is still capable of building an underground fort in a sane amount of time.

They don't stay unskilled for long though...
Perhaps the loss in ores could be balanced by reactions that produce more bars of metal per ore stone. It might not be realistic, but it'll balance the ore retrieval issue.

Anther help is to give the humans a sawmill workshop to produce wood more easily.

Yeah. For digging to be more trouble than it's worth, above-ground construction needs to be made more attractive. Unfortunately the two are inherently imbalanced, since you can't order mass-building as you can mass-digging.

[Interus]

The solution I'm working on for this is roughly what other people have suggested, though I turned mining skill improvements completely off for humans.  Probably not a good idea right now, with metal being so rare.  You really have to mine a lot to get useful amounts, or trade for it.  But it makes it so all mining is permanently slow.  I'm also working on building a sawmill that will make 5 blocks out of 1 log.  I'd probably have it finished if "working on" meant "done anything more than thought about it."  I've mostly been modding the human raws to have some mildly interestomg castes.

The sawmill is interesting because it means you have to decide between using logs to build constructions or objects.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

actually, the vikings produced iron almost exclusively from bog iron
that mod replaces some vanilla files, read the readme to make it compatible with your mod

you'd have to get lucky and embark somewhere there's peat for that mod to make a difference

[Foamy]

The solution I'm working on for this is roughly what other people have suggested, though I turned mining skill improvements completely off for humans.  Probably not a good idea right now, with metal being so rare.  You really have to mine a lot to get useful amounts, or trade for it.  But it makes it so all mining is permanently slow.  I'm also working on building a sawmill that will make 5 blocks out of 1 log.  I'd probably have it finished if "working on" meant "done anything more than thought about it."  I've mostly been modding the human raws to have some mildly interestomg castes.

The sawmill is interesting because it means you have to decide between using logs to build constructions or objects.

There are some sawmills already done. there's one in the mesolithic thread. could save some time.

[Erk]

Also make the kiln reaction to produce bricks produce more than one at a time. 5 or so.

Make picks a foreign item. Replace them with shovels. Do what you can to make shovels suck more than picks: two handed for one, and perhaps extremely heavy so that they slow the wielder down a ton (is that possible?)

Potentially, you could make shovel manufacture a more onerous process. You have to make a shovel blade at a forge and a wooden handle at a craft shop, then combine the two at the craft shop. Doing it this way, you could possibly use the reaction to make the shovel out of a specific mineral for shovels only, one that weighs a lot.

Alternately make a new item called 'pick' that fits that description for humans to use, and rename the dwarven pick a 'mattock'.

[Krinogen]

just delete the mining skill, and for stone, make a plant-like "boulder" wich can be gathered, this is normal to pick up boulder from the ground, here is your solution