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goblin abmushes, sieges etc.

human abmushes, sieges etc.

elf abmushes, sieges etc.

titans, forgotten beasts, megabeasts

demons

magma

necromancers

undead

tantrum spiral

loyalty cascade

giant mosquito invasion

[hiroshi42]

362:  There is no completely safe way to use a necromancer to train melee dwarves, not even cavies.

[flabort]

363: When embarking without wood, going straight for the caverns can result in ‼Fun‼.
363a: When sealing off sections of the caverns, make sure they're small enough to seal.

[Larix]

364: building a spout to dump water into the middle of a magma pool is _not_ a good idea; all the obsidian will be generated entirely unsupported and instantly falls to the bottom, where it gets destroyed by the semi-molten rock. Enjoy your constant cave-in messages until the end of the fort.

365: pumps can drain a small river to the point that waterwheels downriver from the pump may stop working. And your dwarfs will consider the riverbed downstream from the pump safe to cross, which is not at all good for your nerves when there's a 15z-waterfall perhaps thirty steps from the pump.

366: dumping a bunch of cats and wardogs into the caverns to fight the cavefishmen will not kill the animalmen. It will only train them until they're incredibly good at blocking and dodging.
366a: while dumping a bunch of crabs to the training room for your soldiers to fight is about the only reasonable thing you can do with those animals, exercise moderation: 20 crabs to a single recruit is excessive.

[Silverlock]

367.  If you are on an evil biome -- even partly -- there is no such thing as "too soon" to build a way to seal yourself away from the outside world.

[fractalman]

I went on for about 4 years or so. 
then all of a sudden my harvesters (read: nearly half my fort) trip 5 or so goblin ambushes at once. 

One of which had a goblin too close to my fort and it slipped in, and started running around disrupting work so I couldn't even try to fix things up...
next fort will have rows of cage traps lining the entrance corridor to deal with those goblins.  and ho

hopefully i'll get a marksdwarf squad started up in time next attempt. 

[Splint]

368. While sending hammer and macemen against a chitinous foe is a bad idea, it is qually bad for the enemy to send such troops against chitinous creatures under your employ.

However when most of your army is made of squishy normal soldiers, they tend to be beaten into paste rather quickly when you forget to armor them.

[Gaybarowner]

369: Husk clouds cannot and I repeat CANNOT be contained without losing 50 dwarves

[Houndstooth]

370: Building an above-ground fortress only accessible by bridge seems like a great idea, until a dorf goes berserk and breaks it. Enjoy your miasma and !!FUN!!

[TheDarkStar]

371: Not only will breaching the circus lead to !!!fun!!! and the death of your fortress, when you abandon and start a new fortress on the same world, a portion of your migrants will drop dead from injuries almost as soon as they enter the map. Especially the valuable metalworkers and legendaries.

[Sutremaine]

372: If you sealed off your caverns in such a way that most of your space is over the non-evil part of the site, double-check where you're putting the butcher's shop. Chitin the size of an elephant, in the sealed food production pod...

[Awessum Possum]

373: Sealing the caverns should be done in stages overseen by numerous soldiers.

374: By all that is good and holy, WATCH YOUR DESIGNATIONS!

[Demdemeh]

375: Towers do not respect difficulty curves. If you embark near one, don't be surprised when The Dead Walk!!! within your first year.

[Larix]

376: If your embark is partially savage temperate mountain, taking the minimum possible size embark means all those juicy Giant Wolverines and wolverine men spawn right next to the plentiful outside installations. Better get that moat dug quick.
376a: Seven unarmed peasants cannot kill a Giant Wolverine, because its skull is too thick to punch/kick through (and everyone worships headshots too much to try anything _effective_ after they've managed to punch a big enemy unconscious). I still wonder how i managed to smith a spear and hand it over to one of the dwarfs before the wolverine had time to recover and murder the crew.

[Silverlock]

372: If you sealed off your caverns in such a way that most of your space is over the non-evil part of the site, double-check where you're putting the butcher's shop. Chitin the size of an elephant, in the sealed food production pod...

Ouchie.

[Thermi]

377.Artifact floodgates are NOT save from building destroyers. Better have a drawbridge as an exit from your pit of death then a floodgate. Using a floodgate will result in !!FUN!!.
Background story: I dug a pit 3 z-levels deep to throw all my Goblin and Troll-Prisoners in. It was separated by 2 airlocks. I then proceeded to move my whole military to the fortifications in the pit walls through the airlocks. As I opened the last one, the floodgate of the pit was broken (it was an artifact one and was just destroyed as a building and dropped as an artifact). I the rushed all of my military inside (1 squad of hammerdwarves, 1 squad of sworddwarves, 1 squad of speardwarves and 2 squads of Crossbowdwarves). The proceeding fight spilled to the whole fortress, because I left all the airlocks open to rush my guys inside. Luckily, goblins and trolls try to path to the border and don't stop to fight, hence all enemies were slain and no dwarves were lost. SUCCESS! Kind of.
378. Troll and Goblin blood on all walls in the fortress look great!