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[Inquisitor Saturn]

Never try to build anything on the other side of ice in late winter.

[Dwarfaholic]

Never have anybody walk past a frozen lake when it's spring and the ice is melting.

Never rely solely on imported food on a map filled with unicorns.

[Anti-Paragon]

Never make a refuse pile and set dwarves to pick up refuse outdoors right beside an ancient ruin.

[Quintin Stone]

quote:Originally posted by Impending Doom:
<STRONG>Because when your wrestlers spar, they will occasionally throw each other down the well and drown. I've had it happen many times.</STRONG>

Oh, that's just hilarious.  I love it.

[Asehujiko]

Make your barracks like this:

code:

Barracks floor:
.....
.>>>.
.>O>.
.>>>.
.....
Submerged floor:
#####
#<<<#
#<O<#
#<<<#
##+##
. floor
> stairs down
< stairs up
# wall
O well
+ grate

If they drown like that, put them in a tomb labeled "darwin award winner"

[Greiger]

Don't flood a moat around your fortress when your main workshop areas both extend beyond your surface walls and are only 1 z level down.  (Insert drowning sounds here)

[NahNahNahNah_SLUGMAN]

quote:Originally posted by Impending Doom:
<STRONG>Tried that. Had a pair of swordsmen standing IN THE DOORWAY sparring, and one of them got tossed back into the well. Now I know just how stupid dwarves can be.</STRONG>

You have the dwarven mafia. Iron boots and an "accident" with the well.

That just shows how bad dwarves are at making things look like accidents. I guess respectively, it might seem like an accident since dwarven accidents usually involve the burning/flooding/tanruming of an entire fortress.

Seriously, though, this is hilarious.

[ February 04, 2008: Message edited by: NahNahNahNah_SLUGMAN ]

[NahNahNahNah_SLUGMAN]

OOPS

[ February 04, 2008: Message edited by: NahNahNahNah_SLUGMAN ]

[Scorpios]

quote:Originally posted by Impending Doom:
<STRONG>Tried that. Had a pair of swordsmen standing IN THE DOORWAY sparring, and one of them got tossed back into the well. Now I know just how stupid dwarves can be.</STRONG>

That takes skill.

[Puzzlemaker]

Bad idea:  Deciding that, Hey, to make that nice hole in the ground, I can just dig AROUND it and let it collapse!  Just make sure the area beneath it is clear, and...

Oh wait, IT GOES THROUGH FLOORS.  About 10 levels down later, it comes to a stop...

[Anatzenko]

I wanted a skylight "window" to my glorious dwarfish dining hall and decided to use floor grates on the ground level for aesthetic reasons. I find out the hard way that floor grates do not support each others the way floor tiles do . So plenty floor grates come crashing down on my poor celebrating dwarfs. Luckily only one carpenter sustained brain damage.

on this note anyone know to make non-crashing floor that light passes?

[nahkh]

Here's my bad idea:
Building a mine in a swamp. Yeah, that's right. Right in the middle of zombie-infested marshes.
Currently I'm using about a third of my population to keep back the many and varied zombies while I'm desperately pumping through two layers of aquifer ^^

Addendum: Just breached the two-level-thick aquifer.

[ February 05, 2008: Message edited by: nahkh ]

[penguinofhonor]

Now, try a three level thick aquifer.

[Armok]

*would want to post but cant remember ever being stupid (actually I would *want* to, I want the fun of losing   )*

[Jreengus]

quote:Originally posted by Asehujiko:
If they drown like that, put them in a tomb labeled "darwin award winner"[/QB]

Most dwarves deserve the Darwin award aspecially the nobles:
"you ther make me lots of clear glass"
"I dont care if theres no sand do it or ill have you beaten"
"What? OK I'll stand in this room with the suspicous floodgates for a wall."
"Hmmm the door seems to have locked, guess I'll just pull this lever."