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[Psychopulse]

I've had a couple:

One time I embark and I found myself next to a cave of a hydra, which soon came out and proceeded to kill my dwarves and dogs as soon as I started to dig underground.

Another time, my wagon was on a frozen river.  Despite digging into the closest mountain we could find and moving as many things as possible into the cavern, a few of a dwarves died and I left shortly afterward.

[Mr Space Cat]

I was messing around with making a world gen parameter that genned around 90% of a medium sized world as evil biome with a bunch of megabeasts, titans, night creatures, and evil weather types. It worked well; too well. After getting a rain that caused my dwarves to go unconscious instantly by stepping in a single tile of the substances, I redesigned the settings to have no evil rain, by setting rain types to zero.

Something went wrong after an embark, five minutes in everything on the surface spontaneously turned into husks, including the pack animals and cats and dogs chilling by the wagon. The husks flooded into my hastily dug hole-in-the-ground bunker and slaughtered the dwarves in moments. Any attempt to reclaim or even embark in the same biome resulted in the embark party instantly husking on arrival. Unpause the game, and you lose.

Instead, I embark in another area and found out it rains dwarf blood, despite my efforts to remove the rain in world gen. This accidental rain was much worse; it made the dwarves unconscious, covered in bleeding blisters, made them nauseous and feverish, and paralyzed them to suffocation from a single touch. The two miners were the only survivors of the first bloodstorm, and they walked willingly into the deathly blood puddles claiming they had to clean themselves off in the nearby river. Neither one made it more than a tile before *boop* Urist McMiner has suffocated. x2 your settlement has crumbled.

[Lich180]

I know I'm not the only one who this has happened to: embark on evil biome, nothing unusual. As son as you unpause, you get an alert to a ferocious must cloud... 3 tiles away from your dwarves, who havent even had time to grab a pick yet.

6 of the founders, and both pack animals turn instantly into thralls, and chase the poor dwarf who managed to escape for several minutes before being torn into bits.

Total play time: 5 seconds.

[SquatchHammer]

I had one where there was too many caves and it had a multi Z level drop instantly where the embark set up. That was a fun amounts of collisions

[Putnam]

Embarked on top of a frozen major river seconds before it thawed.

[Kumis]

Alligators.

[Broken]

Lets see:

Undead Polar Bear. Four dead, Then insanity took the rest.

Insta killing rain. 6 dead, the only survivor was trapped underground. (Although he actually survived, but i abandoned because i could't do anything).

Embark in a cave. A demon Comes out and kills 5 dwarfs before a miner kills him. The miner goes berserk and kills the last founder.

[Putnam]

Oh, yes. My first fort after 34.01's release. Undead yaks, IIRC.

[Caz]

A cloud of haunting fog has drifted nearby!

[Scootagoose]

Once had my hunter get killed by a boar. and of course. zambies.

[Uthric]

I still think I hold the record for shortest fort time ever 2 seconds till everyone died.


Embark now brought a flammable SOMETHING that as soon as i unpaused caused the grass and wagon to combust and kill all the dwarfs Instantly.

[Satarus]

I've had a turn 0 death.  I embarked and then the whole place caved in as soon as I unpaused.  Thankfully that bug got fixed a while back.

[Ancre]

A polar bear thought the beer I brought was good. Then it decided it would go well with one of those annoying dwarves trying to wrestle him away.

Not a good idea in hindsight, but it was very entertaining to watch.

[penguinofhonor]

I think I can beat the frozen river stories. I've embarked on top of a non-frozen river. Five z-levels above it, to be precise. It was one of those canyons that develop around large rivers, and they were surface level. Unfortunately they were about ten tiles too far north.

[Wastedlabor]

Had to give up on an embark after several rounds of quick death by enthralling clouds, flying zombies, and enthralling clouds filled with flying zombies.