Dwarf Fortress is a speed game wheeee! I think this run is more reliable than people realize. There's probably another 10-20 minutes that can be saved here, even just following my build pattern verbatim. I'm sure there's other tricky things that can be done as well.

I mention this in the video, but occasionally saving and quitting to the game menu and re-loading seems to help with a bug causing visitors to not show up on the map. If you play a fortress straight to metropolis without quitting you won't see many (if any) visitors in the current version.

I realized after the fact that I didn't show all the difficulty settings at the start. Everything is the default but let me know if you don't trust that. I don't think I looked at the starting dwarf skills, but I've pasted my embark profile here: https://pastebin.com/W93i7MVS