Hello, fellow dwarfers...
Love the game a lot, I've lost many hours of free time to this wonderful game. So far, though, I haven't had much luck playing past a few game years and around 30+ dwarves... the game starts to get away from me and I feel like I've lost all control.
In particular, though, is the problem of stone. Namely, too much of it. If I'm not down on the plains or next to a sea or ocean, stone just piles up way too fast. I'm trying to build storerooms for food, wood, etc. inside my fortress and my dwarves are spending 50% of their time just hauling stone! Not to mention it leaves a dreadful mess in stockpiles outside my fortress entrance.
So what to do? One solution is to carve out your large area needs (like stockpiles) in sand/clay areas, so that you generate no extra stone. They're ugly rooms with low value but practical, and you can burn up some stone building walls and floors later.
Another possibility is using up stone in civil/military projects. Maybe I could start building the great Dwarven Pyramid as a tomb for one of the nobles... but then again, that means my dwarves are essentially doing busy work to use up the stone, and any extra chambers/rooms that have to be dug just add more stone to the equation.
So how do you solve the stone problem?
Adamantyr