it is time to begin Operation: Break in Case of Emergency in Spokenportal.
Not sure if it's still the case but in 44.02 you could place multiple items on a single pedestal.
The plan: Install display cases in strategic locations (also outside of every bedroom), ensuring that each has a full set of Masterwork weapons and armor.
Also possibly emergency booze supply?
On top of this, the bunker (the huge bunker) for my primary matriarch (5 kids, youngest a baby, and counting) is coming along nicely. It is fully enclosed along the first cavern, and we are channeling out areas for trees to grow (tallest location is 3z atm), there's plenty of room for crops, and this will be our primary non-grazer pet stockpile. We are planning on digging out a currently completely untouched soil layer and turning that into one giant pasture.
Our primary matriarch is butcher/tanner/leatherworker/bone carver, and our primary patriarch is our (Legendary [19]) Brewer.
Right now the population cap is at 25, actual population 29 dwarves, 1 human monster slayer (that needs to die so we can accomplish our "capture all Forgotten Beasts" challenge)--with 6 dwarven children, 2 babies at the moment. All set at the standard 12 year cycle.
I'm aiming for a 100 year fort, capturing all forgotten beasts, titans, and other (semi-) megabeasts that wander onto the map. (1 FB trapped atm, the other hanging around at a map edge. We have a secondary entrance right next to him prepared, just haven't gone for him yet. they're both web spitters. Also someone keeps throwing the useless building destroyer magnet levers we had built next to the first FB entrance [right next to the dogs])
As well as breeding partner for our Giant Rhino, a breeding pair of Giant Elephants, and a breeding pair of Gigantic Tortoises.
....also our Noble has a Masterwork Wagon bed. Which I thought was pretty funny. Not sure how it happened.
Oooooooh..... New plan. Caged male surrounded by 4 1-square nest box pastures with females assigned to them. could have multiple species of males in the same cage.
Caged males are still capable of breeding, assuming the female can approach the cage.