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[KharBevNor]

Embarked on top of an aquifer. Didn't understand how screw pumps worked. Everyone was paddling around in 3/7 water till the goblins finally showed up and killed everyone.

[Geb]

In 40d, searching for an embark site with a magma tube, for access to sweet, sweet magma. The wagon arrives; strike the earth, and so on.

The magma tube is open to the surface and my dwarves have parked their wagon on flat, dry grassland.

Fire imp appears. All is fire. All is burn. Hail the omnifire, destroyer of all! Your fortress has crumbled to its end.

[nogoodnames]

My first embark was a savanna with a nice waterfall in the middle of it. I decided to give my dwarves a scenic view of the waterfall, so I dug a hole from my main hallway out to the river a short distance upstream from the waterfall. I was still getting used to the ACSII and z-levels and all that, so what I thought was one z-level above the river was actually right on the river's level. Queue most of my fort getting flooded.

I was able to wall it off before my entire fort got flooded, but by that time things were already pretty messed up so I decided to just start fresh.

[StLeibowitz]

My first "fun" moment was when Insightcity received a thirty-dwarf immigrant wave, ran out of booze...and then the well froze over.

The first victim of the ensuing tantrum spiral, ignoring the slaves (er, peasants) whom I had ordered to dig out a perfect replica of the Ratway of TES fame, was the army. They rampaged unopposed until they all died of thirst.

In the end, I blamed the immigrants. I take some solace in the fact that it was the founders who drank the beer cellar dry; the new guys only had stagnant water

[Corai]

I learned that adamanite was a no-no.



Nuff' said.

[peskyninja]

First sucessful fort, 22 dorfs, temperate forest. Shit hit the fan when the river froze and we ran out of booze, people started to punch eachother in a miasma filled hole then the fort succumbed.

[Malarauko]

My very very first fort just straight up starved. I think I forgot to actually assign a crop to be grown at the farms.

[CodexDraco]

I tend to abandon my fortresses before any Fun happens but one of my earliest I sealed the fortress from the outside. I ran out of booze and I didn't have a farm yet.

[10ebbor10]

Realized that channels punch through the ceilings of the Z-Level bellow. Cue river getting diverted into the fort.

[davros]

Breaching hell back in 40d.
It was fire demons, and I had no military.
In the end, I just conscripted everyone in the fort.
Fortunately, I had been mass producing crossbows. Managed to kill four Spirits of Fire before they took me out.

[JimDale]

Forgetting to assign a waterdrinking spot for my dwarves. A quarter of them die from thirst. Then, when a dwarf actually goes to take a drink, he gets his ass handed to him by a fricking Giant Sponge. Massacre ensues in that entrance. I seal it off, with about 25 dwarves left.
And then I realize why I had had that opening in the first place.
I just quit when my population reached 3.

[Parhelion]

My very first game ever, attempted after much brutal persuading on the part of some of my college friends...

... I couldn't figure out how to make the dwarves do anything.  I had coincidentally embarked on a totally flat map, and didn't understand that mining didn't send you down.  I did a poor job of assigning skills to dwarves, so they wouldn't do anything (I didn't know how to assign different tasks either).  They died a long, slow death after running out of alcohol and food.

[Škrat]

When I had to survive winter with just 5 fish, some meat and plants. It wasn't really "fun" or something, just really exiting.

Or in my first game ever, when I didn't know how to assign tasks (didn't know DFWiki at that time), so my dwarfs just sat around and died of hunger and thirst.
Or how happy I was when I found out how to mine and cut down trees.

[Dr. D]

I cut into the volcano on my third fort, and dumped magma on my supplies, and my dorfs.

[DeKaFu]

Back in 2008, on probably my third or fourth fortress.
I had a map with my fortress on the right side and a hippo-infested river running north-south on the left side. I built a wall around the fortress and had the bright idea to run an underground water canal from the river to underneath the fortress as a source of fresh water.

I was very thorough, hooked up levers and installed a grate on the river end to keep out the hippos. Worked everything out so there'd be no flooding. Unfortunately, a couple dwarves got trapped so I had to build a temporary access staircase halfway down the length of the tunnel so they could escape. Before I could reseal it, a hippo somehow wandered in and took the tunnel straight into the middle of my fortress.

It was a bloodbath. It just sat in the middle of my main hallway, casually pulling every limb off of any dwarf within reach. My poorly equipped military threw themselves at it, one dwarf after another, but could barely scratch the thing before being converted into a pile of bloody limbs and torsos. It eventually got so fatigued that it started passing out, waking up occasionally to kill more dwarves. After it had singlehandedly halved my dwarf population, it finally bled to death.

Then another one showed up.

Let's just say hippos and dying dwarves were a major theme on the dining room walls. The two hippos gained the names Nastymeal and Perfectfeast. They're immortal figures of legend in my Dwarf Fortress history.