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[King DZA]

Nope, it's just annoying. What is actually hard is when ambushes arrive and you are unprepared.

^This.

I have no problem having the bearded little buggers sleep on the floor and drink from the local ponds while I take my sweet time getting everything set up. It's when I suddenly have two squads of goblins in my fort, hunting down my dwarves like they're a bunch of drunken baby seals that things get a tad difficult.

Generally I get the burrows set up fairly quickly and remove unnecessary labors (like hauling) from my specialists.  Anyone caught outside during a raid is disposable 90% of the time after this.

Excluding some very special cases, all of my dwarves always have hauling on. They all live in the same fortress, so keeping it tidy should be a community effort.

As for burrows, those are the things I normally only remember to set up after said goblins have made their presence known...

[MenacesWithSpikes]

I usually focus so much on food production early on that migrants don't present any problem in terms of food.

I'd say my main difficulty is making sure my defenses are in decent shape (first set of walls, some military dwarves put in squads and equipped) before the first goblin ambush occurs.