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[cerevox]

Badgers.

[Girlinhat]

"Oh god there's goblins EVERYWHERE!"

[Urist McBeanie]

My miners forgot to make a staircase after going down a floor and refused to work until they ate... they starved to death. My second ended by a tantrum spiral caused by a dragon attack. The lone survivor who had watched the rest of the military get fried and killed the dragon was ecstatic as he bashed his former allies heads in. Then I was besieged.

[Karlito]

I think it was probably a cave river flood.

[tommy521]

My first for died of boredom, I was too scared to open the gates to invaders.

[rawrcakes]

Winter, frozen water and thirst. Took me a good three forts before I managed to get functioning underground farming for alcohol going.

[Argonnek]

I think my first fort died by noobishness. I unsealed the underground lake (back in 40d) and commissioned a few fisherdwarves to catch some cave lobsters. They died to a giant olm. I sent a random dwarf to kill it. He kicked the bucket. I sent another random dwarf to kill it. He bought the farm. I got so focused on killing this one monster that I didn't notice my front door opening without a dwarf moving through it. What I did notice was the goblin ambush that randomly appeared in my dining hall. The remainder of my population was brutally slaughtered.

[carabide]

Water, lots and lots of tasty water.

[Pon_Katt]

My first few died to frustration due to lack of food and being unable to figure out various other areas.  The first real death was when I had a flying titan show up when I was still scared of the military.  I don't know what martial it was made of, but it flew over my wall and waltz throw my hall of traps.  I still get kids at school asking me how long my current fort has lasted from those early days.   

[Sting_Auer]

Although I expected starvation or dehydration, my first fort actually fell to me quitting because 3/7 of my starter dwarves got killed by giant badgers. The first one to fall without me quitting myself was by goblin ambush and an unseen hole in a wall.

[ZzarkLinux]

Guess my 'first fort' was a hybrid practice-serious fort.
It died when I learned how to train military.

A goblin ambush was in my entrance courtyard, so I sent my armed dwarves to kill.
About a half dozen civilians died before the militia got there.
Another half dozen militia dwarves died during the fight.
Then the remaining militia died when the fight spilled out onto a nearby frozen lake ...

Even though the dwarf-to-goblin death ratio was like 4:1, I still consider it a success since the ambush was technically destroyed.

[Sus]

"And now, to fill the drinking pond; I'll just punch through the wall to the lake over yonder and... OH CARP RUN!!! D: "

[Splint]

A combination of goblin crossbowmen and a tantruming woodcutter. Soldiers got shot to bits cause I had just figured out getting thier gear sorted, and the woodcutter was friends with 6 out of 15 of the dead soldiers.

So, after he finished flipping shit and killing the three dwarves around him, he went apeshit, killed a donkey, barged outside and died in a hail of crossbowfire after severing a goblin's foot.

Everyone else died due to starvation shortly after, as I had neglected to bring seeds or buy any and my farm was on the surface. With the goblins. Who had shot all my animals. So we had miasma from the tantrum-murdered dorfs and wounded animals that died underground, the 5 survivors promptly tantrumed, ending in two more deaths and then a slow starvation death for the final three.

[wierd]

I never really had a problem with carp.

I always repurposed migrant fisher dwarves as being redundant, and gave them more profitale careers as threshers, clothiers, weavers, and craftsdwarves.

To me, the notion of a viscious killer VEGETARIAN fish was merely an idle amusement, despite the tales of epic slaughter I read about....

[Mitchewawa]

My first fort's civ was at war with elves. Died to ambush. Since then, I have never ever found a civ that was at war with elves.

How very unlucky.