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most common cause of losing a fortress?

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goblin abmushes, sieges etc.
human abmushes, sieges etc.
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titans, forgotten beasts, megabeasts
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Author Topic: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION  (Read 69285 times)

Broseph Stalin

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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #195 on: October 06, 2012, 10:21:37 pm »

261. When constructing tiles dwarves will do everything in their power to render the project unfinishable.
262. When deconstructing tiles dwarves will do everything in their power to cause a cave in.

Kilroy the Grand

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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #196 on: October 06, 2012, 10:25:48 pm »

263. You shouldn't leave corpses around your necromancer experimentation/training pit. Especially if that corpse is of another necromancer.
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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #197 on: October 09, 2012, 10:40:32 pm »

264. Someday, you might think you have a wagon pulled by alligators, and will be late to realize how much fun it is.
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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #198 on: October 09, 2012, 10:52:36 pm »

265. You can engrave natural ice floors and walls.
265a. If you use this to train up engraving skill in biome where water melts seasonally, prepare for tantrums as those ice engravings melt.
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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #199 on: October 09, 2012, 10:56:06 pm »

265. You can engrave natural ice floors and walls.
265a. If you use this to train up engraving skill in biome where water melts seasonally, prepare for tantrums as those ice engravings melt.


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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #200 on: October 10, 2012, 11:32:14 am »

265. You can engrave natural ice floors and walls.
265a. If you use this to train up engraving skill in biome where water melts seasonally, prepare for tantrums as those ice engravings melt.
It also causes the water to overflow :D

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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #201 on: October 10, 2012, 02:13:28 pm »

266. Don't let Nauseous dwarves into your food stockpile, kitchen, or dining room.

267. If you're gonna build a wall, make it top priority, otherwise your dwarves will procrastinate it for years.
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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #202 on: October 10, 2012, 02:32:50 pm »

268. Even when armed, dwarve will rarely defend themselves if attacked.
 268a. Carpenter/Woodcutters don't fare very well against giant flying squirrels. Miners however, are brutally effective.

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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #203 on: October 10, 2012, 03:03:08 pm »

269. Giving everyone every job, instead of improving efficiency by always ensuring there's someone available to do whatever needs to be done, reduces efficiency by ensuring that everyone's wasting time on the most trivial task possible.

270. Aquifers fill faster than you think they will.
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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #204 on: October 10, 2012, 03:52:11 pm »

271: Water can move diagonally, through a wall you think was secure.
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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #205 on: October 10, 2012, 07:50:15 pm »

272. Remember to set your minecarts to guide if its in a high traffic area.
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Re: 200 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #206 on: October 11, 2012, 12:29:53 am »

243. SOldiers can and will commit suicide by walking out into a siege for absolutly no reason. Literally no reaso> no equippment was out there, nothing.
Where was the last place you stationed him? Did he make a kill outside recently? I've noticed that dwarves like to wander to the last place they did something and then stand around for a while. With soldiers you can get around this by stationing them in the barracks after they've finished with the rest of their direct orders. Then you can cancel that and let them go back to training or whatever they do in their spare time.
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I am trying to make chickens lay bees as eggs. So far it only produces a single "Tame Small Creature" when a hen lays bees.
Honestly at the time, I didn't see what could go wrong with crowding 80 military Dwarves into a small room with a necromancer for the purpose of making bacon.

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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #207 on: October 11, 2012, 12:42:48 am »

I got him back due to a save scum.

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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #208 on: October 11, 2012, 01:10:35 am »

Okay, keep on doing that if it keeps happening.
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I am trying to make chickens lay bees as eggs. So far it only produces a single "Tame Small Creature" when a hen lays bees.
Honestly at the time, I didn't see what could go wrong with crowding 80 military Dwarves into a small room with a necromancer for the purpose of making bacon.

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Re: 400 things you learned the hard way. FORTRESS EDITION
« Reply #209 on: October 11, 2012, 08:53:22 am »

273. Elven sissy wooden weapons are capable of major damage. Fortunately, this worked in my favor when a pilfered (+birchen long sword+) commandeered by a lowly Thresher sliced off an ettin's left head in one strike.
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