Recently rediscovered my love of Dwarf Fortress, started up a new fort and hooooo boy. It's been fun so far.
The start was going well! I had only 4 deaths on record: two suicidal dwarves decided it was a GREAT IDEA to solo attack giant alligators, a freak wood-cutting accident, and a poor sole who was too close to the map edge when a roc decided to say hello.
That roc is now part of my animal taming zoo collection and I feel vindicated for it.
Then I had this REALLY STRANGE BUG. I forgot to get a copy of my save when it happened but...apparently when some goblins that I caught were released for my military to train on, two of my war dogs panicked? And they ran up to the elven merchants and...one decided to lose his mind and attack it. Eventually I had to put him down because damn it, stop beating up my war dogs! Then a human poet was constantly interrupting my dwarves from doing anything which was. Odd? Because all he was doing was telling a story. I had to use DFhack to execute the fool since I didn't want to piss off the humans that are part of my fort.
THEN the madness somehow got to my new wave of migrants. I noticed it only after one guy decided my sentry keet (gotta find those werebeasts somehow) was evil and murdered it. I had to DFhack kill like, 5 of the migrants because they were trying to kill my animals and interrupting my dwarves without actually being flagged as hostile? It was strange.
I feel better about it now because I blocked off my entire first cavern layer thanks to no water entrances and lined a single route in with cage traps. I've now got a breeding pair of giant cave spiders, giant bats, about 4 cave crocodiles, and a giant cave toad, along with a troll and a small pack of troglodytes for my military to chew through.
I forgot why I stopped playing this game, this is FUN. Now if only the goblins would come back...