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[CobaltKobold]

Parching to death is probably it.

Human goblin fort, having the water freeze in winter, mining out a place for a well (even just a still pool to drink from, since I didn't want to wait on well, but set up to take one) which won't freeze...only to have it not thaw in time for anyone to drink.

[DeathOfRats]

Thirst seem to be a common thread, certainly.

In my case it was the following sequence: Ran out of booze, ran out of water, siege (which caught my dorfs running for water outside). In the end, I just sealed the fort and watched them self-destruct due to overpowering thirst and the tantrum spiral it provoked 

[Strangething]

I blogged about my first death by tantrum spiral. That one alligator basically destroyed the whole fortress, even if it only killed two dwarves personally.

[ShadeJS]

My favorite is always the time that fire spread out from the volcano to engulf the ENTIRE map...killing every living thing on the entire map...except the fire imps.

I once had an Imp prairie fire after my first siege when almost all of my dwarves were out gathering junk. I didn't notice it until the fire was pretty much on the dwarves. When ordered inside the fleeing burning dwarves added much hilarity... The resulting tantrum spiral was equally bad... The fort actually survived and went on to prosper. It ain't over until its over. (Actually, I was having a horrible infrastructure bottleneck so the 2/3 population reduction, after the population calmed down and immigrants came back, helped a lot.)

[Karnewarrior]

I died three times on the same fortress. When I first embarked, I had a little problem involving my carpenter and a gremlin. the resulting loss led to a thirst wave that killed off more dwarves leading to a tantrum spiral into oblivion.

Reclaim, and the first thing I do is deconscript about half of the force I start with. Unfortunately, I forgot to kill the damn gremlin. he went and murdered two dwarves who just so happened to be the friendlyest of the bunch. Guess what happened next.

I decided to go see my fort of multiple failures in adventurer mode. I had never played adventurer mode before, and was only level one, so when I met the gremlin I took massive damage. Passing out every few steps I entered the fort determined to see this through.

I was killed by a ratman in the upper mines.

[Dwarf fort 27]

Well i had an amazing fortress going, i buil a little trap so when an elvan caravan is bout to leave i raise the draw bridge and open up doors to a seperate corridor when they enter the corridor to leave i lock the doors behind them and the doors n front of them/trapped/ lol they went insane and killed each other, than i opend the doors and a flood of dwarves came in to clean up the mess, but one elve was still alive he proceded to slaughter 2 miners a carpenter and some sparring recruits, than i lost the fort to a spirailing tantrum. lol?

[lucusLoC]

you . . lost . . . your. . . .fort. . . to . . . .an . . . ELF!?

[Karnewarrior]

Burn him! Burn him in the magma! Burn the ElfSympathiser-- What? Oh, right. Burn the little kitten in the magma! yeah!

[ZergSpartan]

Urist 315; And Armok said unto thee, oh shit, zombie whales.

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[Untelligent]

A cave-in mishap that simultanenously damages the flood-control system and destroys the only bridge out of the fort?