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[Clover Magic]

Built elaborate entrance hall for a succession fort.  Built bridge to seal things off.  I then handed the save over, thinking that future players could fight or turtle as so desired.

Turns out I never actually got around to hooking said bridge up to a lever.

Fun times.

Also possibly the time I pulled the wrong lever, and instead of sealing off the depot I opened the second caverns and a zombie FB wandered into my fort.  However only one person died from that, so the fallout wasn't as big.

[Loud Whispers]

In an old fort of mine, there was this one time when I had my Dwarves build a giant bubble. Needless to say, one designation was canceled due to wild buzzard interruption, and all of the goblins rushed through that one designation. The Dwarves couldn't even get out, because the goblins held both exits. It culminated in a final showdown between Marks/Axedwarves by the gate and conscripted civilians fighting it out across the city against the goblins.

[My Name is Immaterial]

I would call fundamental misunderstandings of how to have a sustainable farm, a metal industry, a working military, and how to handle a siege big mistakes.
My little mistake is not having more fun.

[Nyxalinth]

Accidentally traded bins back in a 40d fort, when the Baroness had banned their trade.  Justice was active.  20 dorfs died from hammerings, and the tantrum spiral finished off the rest.

[Sus]

I thought I had an impenetrable fortress. What I didn't realize, however, that my hill-top outdoors barracks had a "Construction suspended" floor tile. In an open space. Above a ramp.

Your strength has been broken.

Before that, there was a similar incident where I'd forgot do dig out one tile in each section of a length of "scissors" drawbridge pairs opening in opposite directions... allowing diagonal access from under one raised bridge to the next, which the invaders of course used to trash my fort. Like so:

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fort
=#_   _=
=_   _#=
=#_   _=
=_   _#=
________
________
g++

#=bridge, raised
_=ground
 =empty space
==wall
g++=Bad Guys™
Problem, right there.

[Berossus]

A discarded item in a door that should keep my workers inside during sieges.

If a siege or ambush comes, i set my civilian alert to go down inside, then seal the doors to the upper levels where the military assembles, then set civilians to inactive again so they can go on with their work (i couldnt be arsed to extend the burrow down to every level of the fortress).

But a single shoe or mitten in the door that i automatically q-l-oŽd without checking if it was jammed or not, led to a few new orphans.

[BFEL]

A discarded item in a door that should keep my workers inside during sieges.

If a siege or ambush comes, i set my civilian alert to go down inside, then seal the doors to the upper levels where the military assembles, then set civilians to inactive again so they can go on with their work (i couldnt be arsed to extend the burrow down to every level of the fortress).

But a single shoe or mitten in the door that i automatically q-l-oŽd without checking if it was jammed or not, led to a few new orphans.

ORPHANS YOU SAY? *initiates Dwarven Child Care*

[Berossus]

Didnt excessive science show that child care was largely inefficient?

[Hans Lemurson]

I once sealed off my fort's entrance-tunnel with a retracting bridge.  Siege comes, i confidently pull the lever, and rather than forming an impenetrable wall, the bridge disappears and the goblins all stream in and proceed to massacre my populace.  I managed to seal off my Mayor and a random child in a small section of the living quarters.  However, they had no food, no water, and no pick, so my strength was broken regardless. 

Important lesson: DESIGNATE A RETRACTION DIRECTION FOR YOUR BRIDGES. 
Second lesson: Did you know that Cave Dragons will break open coffins and eat the bodies inside?

[pisskop]

Second lesson: Did you know that Cave Dragons will break open coffins and eat the bodies inside?

Wha?

[Callista]

Didnt excessive science show that child care was largely inefficient?

Yes. However, since there's not much else for children to do...

Personally, I've experimented, but I really prefer to just put them to harvesting and deconstruction. They can train as miners once they're grown, and that seems to increase future soldiers' physical stats just fine without the potential for death and maiming.

[lwCoyote]

I was trying to build a screw-pump fed cistern to de-salinate the water from the ocean for a well. I didn't understand water pressure at this time.. my first attempt at playing around with it. Tapped the ocean about 3 z-levels down from the surface. In one tick of time it killed the miner doing the work and flooded 3/4 of my fort. Left me with some farms and some storage, but I just quit at that point, lol.

I've since learned more about water pressure AND to use flood gates (and redundant flood gates, for that matter)

[Hanslanda]

Didnt excessive science show that child care was largely inefficient?

Yeah. Typically either the child is gruesomely maimed first, or they don't gain any skills. The main difficulty is finding an animal that won't kill the child eventually, but will still attack them and cause the child issues. Since this is DF, basically everything can kill you given enough time to peck at your brain.

[pisskop]

rabbits?  thats a sbenign as I can think of.

[Hanslanda]

Surprisingly lethal. Their bites are pretty dangerous, not to mention it goes the other way too, the child can easily kill a rabbit.