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wildlife

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

[Fishybang]

20. Werebeasts are horrifying fighting an unamored, untrianed military.

[crazysheep]

19. All dorfs are under pressure and tend to explode. Particularly military dorfs.

So, like beer cans then. And military dwarves have been shaken up enough.

21. Always have clothes.

[Frontestro]

22. Dwarfs can have triplets. Plan accordingly.

[darkrider2]

23. If husks are powerful or numerous enough, your military literally can and will be torn to hundreds of tiny giblets. All of which may or may not come back to haunt  you.

[Slayerhero90]

24. Don't start building a pump stack in cavern 3 when you haven't hit 1 or 2 yet.

[Megaman3321]

25. Disable fishing labors on all dwarves in your fort.
26. When making a DWR, don't stick it in your main dining hall.

[crazysheep]

27a. When in doubt, magma. Unless there are zombies.
27b. Corollary of 27a: Magma is a solution looking for a problem, usually in the form of goblins.

[Replica]

28. Aquifiers can block all access to any stone layers you embarked on.
29. Aquifiers cover all the best sites.

[hector13]

30. Just because you can't see the necromancer, doesn't mean the necromancer is not there.

31. Having your army use edged weapons while you have no way of closing off your fort to intruders, does not really work during undead sieges.

32. Leaving undead sieges and goblin ambushers to fight each other just equals more Fun in the end.

[Triaxx2]

Nah, all the best sites also have Aquifers.

33. Mine carts will do their absolute best to ruin your day and your plans at the same time.

34. Usually by dumping something unpleasant on an important dorf.

[Xerillum]

35. Lycanthropy is contagious. (New to DF2012, ended up having to put down a third of the fort)
36. Water doesn't actually clean the floors, it just spreads the face melting dust around.

[Slayerhero90]

37a. Not having enough seeds and/or food/drink will result in message spam that will make all of the important announcement hard to find.
37b. So will buzzards ravens wolves DINGOES.

[Splint]

38. If a solider loses one hand completely and motor nerved in the other, kill them. You'll get an endless store item cancellation otherwise.

39. While humans will drink water regularly from any source, dwarves will go nearly to dehydration before drinking from a pond or river if there is no well set up.

[Xob Ludosmbax]

40. If you have a layer 7/7 magma on a bridge just above a layer of 7/7 water on a bridge, and both bridges are attached to the same lever, when you pull the lever, the water and magma will not all drop at once, and it will mix in the air, and cave in.  The results are not all on the bottom level, but spread out over several z-levels and very unstable.
40a. When you try to mine out the resulting cave in, it will collapse, killing all of the miners in the process. 
40b. Everybody loves the miners and will get very upset when they die. 

[Toxicshadow]

41. Crimes can't be reported unless the creature has workable grasp parts, and will instead spam your announcements