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[Theifofdreams]

Problem solved... once I moved the stockpiles for the plump helmets beyond the kitchens and stills, the dwarves started taking the shorter trip to the other food instead. 
I've since completed the walls surrounding my fortress (no more migrants! YAY!)... now my only concerns are... training a military, finding magma, and my Everything-opult project which isn't quite large scale enough to be a megaproject. I'm just going to fill the area around my fortress with drawbridges maximized on the X and Y axis, all facing away from the fortress, and all hooked to a single lever. Any suggestions to make that easier to do?

[Sugata-senpai]

Problem solved... once I moved the stockpiles for the plump helmets beyond the kitchens and stills, the dwarves started taking the shorter trip to the other food instead. 
I've since completed the walls surrounding my fortress (no more migrants! YAY!)... now my only concerns are... training a military, finding magma, and my Everything-opult project which isn't quite large scale enough to be a megaproject. I'm just going to fill the area around my fortress with drawbridges maximized on the X and Y axis, all facing away from the fortress, and all hooked to a single lever. Any suggestions to make that easier to do?

I'm just going to fill the area around my fortress with drawbridges maximized on the X and Y axis, all facing away from the fortress

all facing away from the fortress

You'll actually need to make them raise towards your fortress, or the bridges will form walls that will stop creatures from being flung away from the fort.

Also, bridges fling in a random direction, so your design will only fling things away about 25% of the time.

[Theifofdreams]

If they fling in random directions, it won't matter how the walls are built. Also: Flinging direction doesn't matter too much... The walls are pretty high, and with redundancy anything that does get over them won't get in if it survives the fall anyway.
... Although 4 years in, with quite a lot of wealth and still no invaders. I'm starting to feel lonely, even with the large group of insane migrants locked outside the walls. Several of them have berserked, and all of them have thrown at least two tantrums. I... can't open the gate even if I wanted to let them in. But it's more exiting having them outside anyway. Lots of Fun.