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I got bored

10 (16.4%)

Starvation/Sobriety

20 (32.8%)

Invasion

17 (27.9%)

Self-propogating FUN plagues

3 (4.9%)

HFS

2 (3.3%)

A new release came without save compatability

3 (4.9%)

Titans/FBs/Megabeasts

0 (0%)

'What's an evil biome? I'll check this out'

0 (0%)

Flooding.

6 (9.8%)

Total Members Voted: 58

[Spehss _]

Many of my first forts got abandoned to boredom. The first real fort I remember losing fell to an ambush of goblin lashers casually strolling in through the front door and whipping everyone to death.

[thegamesurvivor]

Many of my first forts got abandoned to boredom. The first real fort I remember losing fell to an ambush of goblin lashers casually strolling in through the front door and whipping everyone to death.

Same here, minus the goblin lashers of course. My first 'real' fortress death was a forgotten beast I accidentally lured up from the depths, because I had no idea that leaving a tunnel to the caverns unguarded was a bad idea.

[BlackFlyme]

First was lost to the dreaded recycling bin.

Second was a combination of evil-weather induced tantrum spirals and goblin ambushes. The spiral didn't really kick off until an angry dorf swam up the waterfall to punch the mayor in the head as he was admiring the mist.

Made for a decent adventure afterwards though. I got to throw a wheelbarrow at a forgotten beast.

[Raptomex]

I didn't have enough booze.

[Spish]

My first real fortress, Netrelieve, was a dirt shanty built into the side of an evil mountain, next to an evil brook called "Donkeybent the Doomed Buckles." There just happened to be a deep, deep, DEEP chasm directly below the meeting hall, as my expedition leader discovered the hard way when he mined out a stalactite he was on and fell to his death (exploding and leaving me without a way to organize a military apparently). The mission to recover his remains (which took up basically the entire year, that's how deep this hole was) was cut quite short when miasma-spewing undead rutherers emerged from said chasm, crossed the bridge I later built, and tore the defenseless civilians limb from limb. Except for one dwarf who was smart enough to stay the hell out of there and instead died of thirst in the frozen mountains.

Probably the most memorable thing about the fortress, in retrospect, was the miasma billowing out of the pit that foreshadowed the unspeakable horrors that awaited beneath. I tried visiting Netrelieve with an adventurer afterward and let me tell you, that place was rather creepy.

[Flarp]

I don't really remember, but I want to say flooding, due to aquifers and/or misunderstanding of z-levels.

My first fort that was actually /lost/ to invaders was hit by an elven ambush - my first experience with combat. It crumbled, too- turns out wooden arrows are still pretty great if they whack your head.

[SanDiego]

My first fortress fell when I found out that water can and will flow diagonally. And up and down the stairs. Also, rather fast.

[Melting Sky]

My first fortress never actually died. When I got to about year two I had seen and learned enough to realize just how horribly flawed my design was even though I had only lost two dwarves to a goblin ambush at that point plus a mason who walled themselves in.

The ocd took over. I made a new world and a new fortress which I am still playing to this day. It has survived past the decade mark and been a load of fun. Despite a few spectacular accidents involving magma, a vampire and a pet dragon, it's turned into a thriving fortress full of happy drunken dwarves. Just stay clear of those top two abandoned floors unless you want a magma bath and for god sake don't mess with the feral dragon guarding the west entrance.

My next embark will be to an evil biome and or near a necromancer tower. 

[Manveru Taurënér]

Dehydration. Realized too late the lakes would freeze during winter and hadn't gotten booze production up and running yet (don't recall how much I even knew about it all at the point). Who needs invaders or tantrum spirals when there's good old basic game mechanics to kill you 

[miauw62]

Hooked up a well in the center of my dining hall to the river. The river that was 10 Z-levels up. I didn't into pressure control at the time.
Some dwarves took the wrong way up and ended up in the farms, without any way to escape the rapidly rising water.

[Indricotherium]

Mine was back in the 2D days. Having read up on surviving I managed to thrive for 2 years. Then I reached the magma river and busily set about setting up forges when a fire imp appeared. My military wasn't ready...

[arbarbonif]

First fort I actually got to the end with was a "surely this level of the adamantium is safe" moment.  Second was a "this time I actually have my military in place to deal with the clowns" moment.  The first one was absolutely hilarious, though I was disappointed that the clowns never killed the elves sitting at the depot or the maimed trolls hanging out in my barracks (the goblins had all been killed by my weapon traps).

I tend to restart once I decide on a "better" way to do things, or when I decide to try something totally different, or when I play something else for a couple of days and don't feel like figuring out what I was doing in the last fort.

[imlovinit]

Grr you stole this thread idea from me you monster!

Anyway my first fort was lost due to dehydration.

[Putnam]

didn't understand how doors worked, built walls instead of just digging and ended up trapping dwarf in own room, lost to a tantrum spiral. This was around 40d, I think, near the end of its lifetime. Didn't play again much until 0.31.25.

[Orange Wizard]

I remember selling wooden mugs to the elves. They reacted violently.