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[DwarfsAreGoodTestSubjects]

This happened with my current fortress; keep in mind that I'm relatively new to this game.

I commanded my miner to dig into the cliffside. I then commanded them to dig an uphill slope there. Something collapsed and they got immediately crushed.

A couple of my dwarves are still terrified to this day.

[brewer bob]

Embarked on a frozen river that happened to be in a canyon... which thawed immediately when unpausing the game. Everyone drowned before they even reached the canyon walls.

[Telgin]

A necromancer siege in the first year is probably my fastest fort loss.  I've never been that unfortunate with terrain related hazards.

[DwarfsAreGoodTestSubjects]

A necromancer siege in the first year is probably my fastest fort loss.

A necromancer siege was also the fate of my "first" fortress ("first" in quotes since there were other fortresses I had, but this is the first one I haven't abandoned). Locked my dwarves inside the fortress, but foreigners kept visiting and died. I had enough of this, so I made some spears, a quick military group, opened the hatches to the outside world and commanded them to fight the corpses. They died almost immediately. Not even a second and my entire military group was gone.

My mistake really, they were underprepared with wooden spears. (Also I have no idea if you can kill them)

[palenerd]

Savage evil biome on a river. Wagon was barely 3 tiles from the water. Giant aligators ate three people immediately. Screwed up the aquifer and fatally injured my miners. Without a pick, the last guy didn't last long after that.

[A_Curious_Cat]

Frozen river in a canyon in a serene biome.

Initial embark:  Ice melts.  Everybody drowns.

First reclaim:  Ditto.

Second reclaim:  everyone got gored to death by unicorns.

Third reclaim:  Made it safely to the cliffs.  Then proceeded to dig a series of ramps up into an aquifer (back when “heavy” aquifers were the only kind), which (due to the layout of -what little existed of- my fort) caused everyone (and everything) to be flushed into the river.

IIRC, it was 4 layers of stone sandwiched between two aquifers (one above, one below).  Also (as this was my second fort), for some reason I thought that leaving one side of the room that I used for my refuse stockpile open to the outside would prevent miasma from occurring…

[delphonso]

Small embark in an evil biome - immediately the dwarves were ripped apart by ogres.

I've had that same thing happen a few times with undead frozen tundras, but that's also a symptom of the 2x2 embark.

Embarked on a frozen river that happened to be in a canyon... which thawed immediately when unpausing the game. Everyone drowned before they even reached the canyon walls.

This always cracks me up. I just love this game sometimes.

Frozen river in a canyon in a serene biome.

Initial embark:  Ice melts.  Everybody drowns.

First reclaim:  Ditto.

Second reclaim:  everyone got gored to death by unicorns.

Third reclaim:  Made it safely to the cliffs.  Then proceeded to dig a series of ramps up into an aquifer (back when “heavy” aquifers were the only kind), which (due to the layout of -what little existed of- my fort) caused everyone (and everything) to be flushed into the river.

IIRC, it was 4 layers of stone sandwiched between two aquifers (one above, one below).  Also (as this was my second fort), for some reason I thought that leaving one side of the room that I used for my refuse stockpile open to the outside would prevent miasma from occurring…

I appreciate your tenacity. I'm re-learning things in the Steam version and keep devastating my forts, and reclaiming them until I get it /down/.

[Mungrul]

Giant, aggravated mosquitoes.

[anewaname]

There was a military force on the map, maybe 30+ dwarfs that were hostile, and the expedition was slaughtered, but the funny part was that I enjoyed bringing as many turkeys as possible at that time, so there maybe 40 or 50 turkeys and the enemy needed to work for it...

Also has a fun one with 6 undead orca.

[Justiceface]

Small embark in an evil biome - immediately the dwarves were ripped apart by ogres.

I had the same in a 47.05 embark but with giant red-winged blackbird corpses. Attempted reclaim twice but just couldn't get the dwarves out of sight fast enough. One time it was giant crow corpses or something I think but always undead giant birds.

[rtg593]

Embarked evil biome for the first time, unpause, raining. Yeah, ok, whatever, dig! 3 days later, all dwarves died simultaneously.

Some very evil rain, indeed.

[Kikkero]

My very first fort.  I didn't really understand what an evil biome was, ignored the warning pop-ups, and then was very annoyed when I had a full zombie invasion tearing through my fort within 9 months of embark.

[Stromko]

My very first proper fort (in the Steam version), a couple undead just wandered in before the first caravan had even visited us. I should note this wasn't even a scary biome it was just regular calm forest and I was unlucky I suppose. I drafted every dwarf I had to deal with it, but one of the undead was highly skilled and just tore through everyone.

Ever since then I've been sure to get a front door or better yet a drawbridge set up for every fortress as soon as I can manage it, just in case something shows up that is way too strong to handle. I don't think I've actually had a fort crumble since then, but nothing that dangerous has shown up that early either.

[Yone]

I recently reclaimed one of the game-created fort ruins. Instead of a forgotten beast deep within the fortress, which I'd encountered before with reclaims, there was a demon in the first cavern level. I couldn't wall off in time and all my dwarves were killed within the first season.

[lazygun]

Alligator in the river next to the wagon.

On the third save-scum I appointed the last dwarf standing as Chief Medical Officer and designated a spot of ground as the hospital. Not much got done that spring but I eventually had 5 mobile dwarves to construct the fortress.