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[shadenight123]

active trolling:dwarf on fire are actually the superfinal weapon against anything. pump the magma up to the stockpiles and power them up.

actual advice:make a magma moat by pumping magma straight up through magma pump stacks.

(fps destroyer and potential fort annihilator, but actually good advice)

[Edosurist]

Make sure you claim all burning items, including clothes. If you don't, they will never get removed and they may set any wood walls and floors on fire.

[arzzult]

Joyous wilds are a very safe and easy place to start a fort in. Also unicorns are and easy source of food for your hunters to bring in. There are very few things in the first cavern layer that a squad of untrained wrestlers can't handle. All food has to be cooked or it can make your dwarves sick. You have you periodically water your farms or they won't produce enough food.
Don't worry, your dwarves are pretty smart and fairly good at taking care of them selves in dangerous situations.

[Number4]

All food has to be cooked or it can make your dwarves sick.

Good advice. Uncooked food = lower quality = unhappier dwarves. The "boozecook"- trap needs to be avoided, but as chicken eggs are easy food it probably will, even for noobs.

[Hypotheses]

You can cook your booze so your dwarves get a full meal all at once, instead of taking breaks to drink.  Roasts fill them up more, so they can go without a drink even longer.

[MrShovelFace]

cut into a magma pipe at the very BOTTOM

[Kirbypowered]

hmmm it would be cool if your dorfs could use an immolated warhammer (if they had fire safe gloves of course)

Actually, it'd be cool if you could make the handle out of something not burst-into-a-flaming-deathable so they could safely carry it. Of course, it might be a bit hot for the dwarfs, but where's the Fun without that?

[andyman564]

Dwarves don't need to be buried. you can simply leave them where they died and forget about them.

[billybobfred]

Make sure to keep your Idler count low by any means necessary.

[thegoatgod_pan]

the (d)esignate (H)ide tools are the appropriate way to deal with corpses!  Just ignoring them is unseemly, but if you hide them, problem solved!

Also: remember water flows quickly side to side and very slowly from above down.

[Xenxe]

Just do anything its hard to lose

[Aramco]

See those green pointy-eared guys? They're goblins. Their friendly, so just open the gate and let them have a chat in your dining hall.

What? No! It was kidding when it said vile force of darkness! Really, it was!

[MrShovelFace]

dig a trench around the map then mine out the center of it

[Rallan]

here's a really subtle way to mislead.

"Dwarves hate being around loose stone, so make sure to stockpile it all."

I'm going to have to argue against that one. Assuming the player is reasonably intelligent, they'll just store the stone in an out-of-the-way place. That, or dig some new rooms. Which will generate more stone...  I can see where you're going with this.

Nah that's not where Poindexterity's going. When your fortress is new and your workforce is still tiny, you can waste a lot of time trying to keep everything tidy with a big ol' stone stockpile.

[Rallan]

"Adamantine is the most valuable metal in the game. You can find it by digging down until you reach a huge underground magma sea. Its the best material in the game to make armor with, and it's also the best for hacking and piercing weapons. Its very light though, so it sucks for making blunt impact weapons like warhammers".