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Lack Of Food?

13 (11.6%)

Lack Of Drink?

22 (19.6%)

Lack Of Mining Pick?

0 (0%)

Lack Of Wood?

0 (0%)

Lack Of Blood In Dwarfs?

13 (11.6%)

Too Much water?

19 (17%)

Too Much Lava?

1 (0.9%)

Too Much Necro Omnom?

1 (0.9%)

Carp-mageddon?

0 (0%)

Sponge Murder?

0 (0%)

Night Creatures?

3 (2.7%)

Curses?

0 (0%)

Clowns?

1 (0.9%)

Forgotten Beasts?

4 (3.6%)

GCS?

0 (0%)

Abandoned?

23 (20.5%)

something else?

12 (10.7%)

Total Members Voted: 110

Voting closed: October 09, 2013, 08:32:40 am

[EvilBob22]

I'm in the "been playing for years, so I don't really remember" camp too.  I started on 32g? (Two major and a few minor versions before 40d, still 3D though.)  I'm guessing it was goblins though.  I had followed the wiki advice, so I knew most of the basics, but it was several forts before I had any weapons to speak of.

[PetWolverine]

Lack of food. I figured out how to gather plants, but not how to place a farm and grow crops, nor did I realize that I had started with seeds but needed to grow them underground. I didn't make it to winter.

I wasn't reading a tutorial or anything, and it wasn't until my second fort that I even figured out how to change z-levels, so until then my dwarves would just disappear up ramps and reappear coming back down, or vice versa.

[LMeire]

I'm the type to pore over all the manuals and wikis before jumping into anything time-consuming, so I had a good enough understanding of digging and butchering to make a small dent on my first (non-boredom/frustration based abandon) try.



I noticed that my dorfs were all getting thirsty, so I dug a "well" into the underside of a river. They probably could have reached the river on their own though, if I hadn't misunderstood how stairs work.

The last three died huddled next to eachother in the back of a flooded tetrahedrite deposit after watching all their friends and family go the same way. I almost cried.

[Splint]

My first one was to a goblin attack that came from the only entrance. The first death was our armorer, who was shot in the neck, bled all over everything as she showed a great deal of intelligence and feld into the fort. Where she promptly keeled over in a puddle of red in the communal crypt.

After that is was mostly panicked dwarves and animals being shot, but then they were running low on food and drink because I hadn't quite figured out how to farm yet and all the planters kept bringing in were useless dye plants.

[Owlbread]

Starvation, somehow. Everyone began hunting small creatures. Later forts died of carp.

[Grimmash]

My first couple forts fell to starvation, dehydration and assorted failures in fortress planning.  But I had already read a chunk of boatmurdered and the wiki before starting, so most of my mistakes were in not realizing how vital the first two seasons are for building a farm and some method of closing off the fort.

Since then I've scrubbed some games for various reasons.  Like after digging out my entire plan, then realizing the map had no iron ore.  Or creating a beautiful gate house and trap corridor and leaving one up ramp that the entire goblin siege came through.  Right now I am making a massive fort in a nice location to learn the ins and outs of various mechanics before starting to try out the less hospitable biomes.

[Button]

Aquifer.

"Why does it keep stopping when it runs into a damp tile, I dug under the ponds on the surface just fine - wait... what? Oh jeez."

[A_S00]

Failed defense of goblin siege > sealing the main entrance > slaughtered migrants and caravans that I couldn't save > insufficient slab production > massive ghost infestation > tantrum spiral.

Le sigh.

[Diamond]

My first fort was a one that I tried to follow the tutorials back in 40d.
Technically, it died on the well-digging part of the tutorial because I probably missed the part about dangers of water pressure or it wasn't in the tutorial on wiki, so I flooded the entire fortress and drowned everyexone except two dwarves hanging around the wagon who died later of starvation.

[wierd]

This would have been a .40d fortress.  The endless seas of mudstone made it intensely memorable. 4z of nearly solid mudstone, interspersed with jet deposits.

I was not yet aware of the building destroyer nature of enemy trolls, or that goblins would eventually bring them.  Foolish me, I had the front doors made from floodgates, as I had not yet mastered using raising bridges. Kobolds can't force floodgates open like doors.

Long story short, the goblins got tired of being taunted monty python style while cows and pigs were hurled at them over the wall. (Slight exageration..) they showed up the next year with close to 30 trolls. 

It wasn't pretty.

[WanderingKid]

Long story short, the goblins got tired of being taunted monty python style while cows and pigs were hurled at them over the wall. (Slight exageration..) they showed up the next year with close to 30 trolls. 

I now want to breed cattle to make the world's bloodiest drop-trap.  Hundreds of pigs over hundreds of trapdoors each one 6Zs over a corresponding pressure trap dropping pigs onto the heads of inbound enemies.  Death By Bacon.

Either that or death by x+Sock+x.

[mate888]

My fort?
Well, some migrants came, in full moon, and one of them turned into a werelemur, killing a lot of people, and infecting three dwarves, that in the next month, when the elves came, me not knowing that the sickness would be contagiuos, and with the first beast dead, my dwarves locking themselves inside the fort by closing the bridge witb two hippies over it and... and... IT HAD TO BE ME!!!!! WHYYYYY!!!! *sniffles*

[kero42]

I don't remember which fort-death came first. It was either the time in the evil region where I was channeling a cliff, somehow cause a cave-in, the got killed by an evil weather cloud that spawned on the exact edge we were working on, Or the time I embarked in near the sea and died of thirst. As for the first time my fort ended, it was an undramatic abandon when my hand slipped and I embarked without any supplies. I had just started playing and honestly didn't see the potential for FUN at the time. Oh well.

[kaenneth]

I was tunneling downwards, while using the stone to build upwards.

There was a small collapse at the top of the tower.

whole fort and all dwarves pancaked.

[branmuffincat]

having blood in your dwarves is important i often lost my forts to the first goblin ambushes because of crappy military or just so crippled that i just leave the fort