maybe give the "lazy noob pack" or what its called a go for now for dwarfs. to get used to the new df features like all the raiding and sending dwarfs off, taverns, libraries and what all changed over the last months... think he changed like "thoughts" too.. well there a lot new
i think the independent orc or succubus mods are also working on the latest df. and meph is atm working to get a updated masterwork working on the latest df versions. so once that come out you can switch and give this a go with the masterwork dwarf stuff.
stuff like human fort, hermit, warlocks and all that is the old masterwork version that is quite a few df versions old now.
think there also somewhere mephs tileset... not sure if its in the lazy noob pack too... just look around a bit. so you could get the meph tiles and play the latest df for now.