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[janglur]

So, my metalworks are insanely far away from the rest of my fort.  Would setting up a small dining area stocked with food and booze here help improve productivity by shortening my metalsmiths' distance of travel?  Or would it simply cause more hauling tasks?

[Jacob/Lee]

It should, you should make sure you have some people to restock it though.

[Gearheart]

Restrict the metalworkers to a burrow which contains the forge area and a nearby housing complex?

[slothen]

just make the secondary booze and food stockpiles fairly small.

[m1k3y4e7]

if the metalworks distance is because of magma being remote, it is probably worth it to make a pump stack.

[Jacob/Lee]

if the metalworks distance is because of magma being remote, it is probably worth it to make a pump stack.

No, it isn't. Trust me.

[JAFANZ]

probably easiest to drop some water down the stairwell & build some farms down near the metals industry.

[Astramancer]

Making the metalsmiths a burrow that has all the necessities of life is probably your best bet.  Just be sure to use some really high-quality stuff there, to make sure they stay nice and happy.  Considering that you can easily build a fortress that can host 100 dwarves using your starting 7 in one year, it shouldn't be that hard to set up a subordinate fortress.

[Gnauga]

Don't move your metalsmiths to your fortress, move your fortress to your metalsmiths.
I'd tell you to literally cave-in your entire fortress several dozen z-levels down but that would take forever, even at 200 FPS.

[Emily]

if the metalworks distance is because of magma being remote, it is probably worth it to make a pump stack.

No, it isn't. Trust me.

It probably is in the long run, but obviously a pump stack takes years to set up, a remote metalworks takes like... one season.  Less if you aren't concerned about sealing it off from the magma sea to keep out fire-men.  But I'd start making corkscrews and pipe sections to get a pump stack eventually.

Besides, how're you supposed to make magma lakes and orbital magma cannons without a pump stack?

[Eagle_eye]

simple. just make the crust muuuuch thinnner.

[Zidane]

my fortress revolves around a central staircase, so I just make a depot, along with some beds every 30 levels.