Akura: Beekeepers will sometimes go stand where a hive used to be, even if someone else already grabbed it. Don't have more than one beekeeper. In fact, avoid beekeeping--it's more work than it's worth, what with needing to make hives, screw presses and jugs (which have no, minimal, and no use outside of beekeeping) and only getting a little alcohol, a tiny bit of cooking material, and some tiny bit more crafting material out of it, as well as needing two completely and one mostly specialized professions to do it, one of which (a completely) the skill level actually matters for.
Also, banning something you wouldn't do just prevents her from making another mandate. Treasure it.
Nyxalinth: Dude, the first cavern layer isn't always within 20 levels. Try looking, oh, 100 down and then complain.
Well, I usually hit it much sooner that 20, much less a hundred
Once I hit it in six.
Signed, Nyx, Who is Not a Dude
Dear Dwarves of Whipbulwarks,
STOP!
HAVING!
BABIES!
Had I known so many of the female dwarves were so fertile I wouldn't have put in a statue garden and giant meeting hall for you all to mingle in and with. I had 190 dwarves in Spring. It's now Summer and I have 225. The only increase has been babies. If you don't stop acting like mobile, hairy, alcoholic clown cars soon I will need to cause some unfortunate "accidents" and none of us want that.
-The Angry Babysitter
I feel you. I put the baby count to 0 once I hit 65 population (pop cap is set for 60) and the facetious wenches immediately squirted out five more. Like, Immediately after setting it.
Me: *sets count*
Urist McPregant has given birth to a boy x5
Six months pass, and nothing. Then suddenly, another kid. I'm guessing she'd just gotten pregnant right before I set the cap.
Dear dwarfettes of Firegears,
You drop one more sprog after I set the init for no more babies, and both you and your brat are going into the magma when I find it. Population is sitting at 75, and it will STAY THERE. Or else, I'm sure I can arrange a little tea party for you both with the goblins when they inevitably come to say hello when you push us to 80.
Not amused,
the Overseer of Firegears