At some point the game mostly becomes creating job orders (instead of creating orders manually) and trying to figure out bottlenecks in your fort. It might be l

At some point the game mostly becomes creating job orders (instead of creating orders manually) and trying to figure out bottlenecks in your fort. It might be lack of materials, lack of assigned dwarf (or all of them busy or something) etc Give dwarf therapist a try if you haven't already, it makes changing jobs a lot easier. There will be always idle dwarves. For example you will want your critical dwarves (manager) free unless you need them. And you will want specialized dwarves (say one just for wood cutting) that only does one job and will be free and available the moment that job is needed. Also a trick I use for handling new migrants, there is a useless job (alchemy? can't remember). I toggle that on for all my dwarves. And when a new wave joins in, I can easily find them by looking at dwarves with that job toggled off. Assign them jobs and then I toggle alchemy as well.