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[Quietust]

Not mine, but I'll save Draco18 the trouble of posting it: Magma glitch from v0.28.181.39d.

[Broseph Stalin]

Yesterday I embarked on terrifying swamp, I pressed unpause less than four seconds later "It's Raining Vile Goop!" the goop had the effect of instant huskification and the settlement crumbled immediately.

That record was beaten when I tried to reclaim but before I even pressed unpause I checked my units and found that they had already been huskified. So the lifespan of that fort was the fraction of a second that elapses between your settlement crumbling and the actual message that you've lost.

[Volfgarix]

I embarked in sinister tundra on volcano, my 2 hammerdwarves were killing zombie eagle nonstop (reanimating area). When my miners digged some earth, 3 zombie muskoxes appeared... I though I will be safier on bening evil... but no! Hooved bastards live in benign terrain!

[Splint]

I had somehow had my Swamp fort IMMEDIATELY Killed off by Alligators. 2 frames in.

I had a problem akin to this.... Very hard to survive past the first week of spring when everyone's bleeding and being tossed around by angry swamp lizards.

[Loud Whispers]

Spoiler: Sol (click to show/hide)

Derp derp everyone is on fire.
There are 1000 types of Titans, Demons and Night Creatures as well. Plus, minerals are pretty much non existent in the world.

RULES:

• Multiple reclaims are allowed.
• You can embark anywhere. The place with the lowest temperature I found was somewhere where the booze and water boiled on embark. The hottest part was actually hotter than magma and incinerated everything within a few ticks.
• Survival is possible. I'll give you a clue: Mass dog farming and aquifer reserves.
• Limit your exposure to the sun to a few ticks at most. Your first embark will no doubt vaporize. Forbid the corpses, those will vaporize too, and you don't want to waste Dorfs going after those. Also, Yaks appear to be resistant to burning. If you made them pets, you could feed them and have a sustainable yak hair/baby yak meat industry.

Also, forget rivers. Those vaporize on embark too.

• Admiring the apocalypse is optional. Rivers of magma and boiling rain are a common feature :P

Difficulty: 9

[Quietust]

Sol

That's actually impossible in version 0.34.11, because the excessively high temperature causes all tiles to be marked as "dangerous" (and thus ineligible for pathfinding), so you'll always spawn at the bottom-left corner of the map (without your wagon) and your miners will refuse to take a single step (or even pick up their mining picks).

[Burnup]

Sol

That's actually impossible in version 0.34.11, because the excessively high temperature causes all tiles to be marked as "dangerous" (and thus ineligible for pathfinding), so you'll always spawn at the bottom-left corner of the map (without your wagon) and your miners will refuse to take a single step (or even pick up their mining picks).

Still quite awesome.

[Burnup]

My quickest game was one I embarked then abandoned. But since I know that is not what you're asking about.

Let's see.. 6 military dwarves good to go population 13. Child snatcher apears, milidwarves run after him to the edge of the map. Ambush spotted back at the exposed front entrance with 4 out of 8 gobbos already inside. citizens massacred before I milidwarves could get back.. milidwarves killed gobbos, then while attempting to dispose of the bodies of their loved ones, they killed eachother. End.

Another: Got my underground watering hole and farm good to go in the first year. Than come winter the river froze, and my reservoir expanded into my fort killing everything.

Another: Evil biome first encounter with zombies. In the first year I opened the gate to see how strong they actually are. Every one died.

[TruePikachu]

"Strike the earth!"
"A section of the caverns have collapsed"
"Your fortress has crumbled to its end"

Not mine, but I remember reading it somewhere

[werty892]

When I tried to mod and as soon as I embarked my wagon exploded and killed my dorfs.

Strike the earth!

BOOM

Your fortress has crumbled to its end.

[Findulidas]

My quickest non evil embark was on a cave. I was curious to see what was in it and an ettin came out and killed everyone.

Another one who almost ended too quickly was one where the embark was right next to the waterfall and my dwarves who either took breakes or didnt have anything to do wandered into it and died, along with the animals.

[Intro1827]

I was not ready for evil areas.

[Findulidas]

I was not ready for evil areas.

Evil areas can be a bit too hard atm I think. The zombies refuse to die and resurrect absurdly quickly sometimes. The weather either outright instantly makes dwarves into thralls or just melts dwarves to death with a touch.

The only way to escape is to instantly channel downwards and somehow prepare all the edges for the arriving sods, while simultaneously spamming cagetraps all over the area. While being careful with the pets so as they dont get out and die, coming back to kill everything after just few seconds.

I really think there should be some kind of setting where you could downplay the effects on evil areas. Atm the only vanilla way is to turn off weathers completely at generation, the same way most people like to turn off bogeymen at adventure mode (having to spend 3 hours running back to town evading bogeymen is not fun, its just boring. The ambushes at night are hard as they are, seeing as they are half the reasons my legendary adventurers have died).

[Donuts]

I was not ready for evil areas.

Evil areas can be a bit too hard atm I think. The zombies refuse to die and resurrect absurdly quickly sometimes. The weather either outright instantly makes dwarves into thralls or just melts dwarves to death with a touch.

The only way to escape is to instantly channel downwards and somehow prepare all the edges for the arriving sods, while simultaneously spamming cagetraps all over the area. While being careful with the pets so as they dont get out and die, coming back to kill everything after just few seconds.

I really think there should be some kind of setting where you could downplay the effects on evil areas. Atm the only vanilla way is to turn off weathers completely at generation, the same way most people like to turn off bogeymen at adventure mode (having to spend 3 hours running back to town evading bogeymen is not fun, its just boring. The ambushes at night are hard as they are, seeing as they are half the reasons my legendary adventurers have died).

I survived in a terrifying glacier, then my cats ran into a thralling cloud. Kitten assault.

[Findulidas]

I was not ready for evil areas.

Evil areas can be a bit too hard atm I think. The zombies refuse to die and resurrect absurdly quickly sometimes. The weather either outright instantly makes dwarves into thralls or just melts dwarves to death with a touch.

The only way to escape is to instantly channel downwards and somehow prepare all the edges for the arriving sods, while simultaneously spamming cagetraps all over the area. While being careful with the pets so as they dont get out and die, coming back to kill everything after just few seconds.

I really think there should be some kind of setting where you could downplay the effects on evil areas. Atm the only vanilla way is to turn off weathers completely at generation, the same way most people like to turn off bogeymen at adventure mode (having to spend 3 hours running back to town evading bogeymen is not fun, its just boring. The ambushes at night are hard as they are, seeing as they are half the reasons my legendary adventurers have died).

I survived in a terrifying glacier, then my cats ran into a thralling cloud. Kitten assault.

Yeah, the first fort I did when the patch with thralling mists came died to a single thralled cat. Its really ridiculus.

Sometimes I think that because dwarf fortress has evil magic there should be good magic as well. You should be able to buy religious stuff as protection or perhaps assign a "priest" of a random df religion to bless the dead so as they wont rise. Perhaps get special quests in adventure mode to slay necromancers and undead beasts while getting blessings from a god, so as the evil areas wont affect you as much. While evil is much !fun! there certainly is room for some zombie ass kicking as well.