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[Esgar]

Now, I'm sure that everyone has had fun learning expieriences in this game. Build supports, make defenses, don't undersestimate the terror that is elephant, etc.

I just learned that diagonal warm walls (and presumably damp ones as well) are not safe, and just turned the top floor of my fortress into a magma playground. Five of my seven dwarves died trapped in their rooms (4 from the heat, one from blood loss), with two now trapped below, the only stairwell flooded with magma.

So what're your stories?

[Spoggerific]

It turns out grates don't support things. See, I was building a meeting room over a chasm with a waterfall going through it. I mass-designated some floors next to some grates, and while I was busy watching the miners dig out the tunnels for the water to flow through, suddenly... "A section of the cavern has collapsed!".

This was with my original seven, and the resulting dust cloud pulled down my mason and idle carpenter/woodcutter, along with my only axe. I had to make due with, like, 10 logs until the caravan came.

[Core Xii]

Pumps pressurize magma. I thought magma was always clunky and didn't flow up. Lost my mason/engraver that smoothed the very channel the magma spilled out of. I locked everyone inside and managed to pull the lever to stop the pump, but the lava took like a season to evaporate, and the elven caravan went berserk just before they reached the edge of the map. My some 8 dwarfs spent forever running the dropped items from the edge of the map to my fortress.

[Dolohov]

Bridges stop catapulted stones.  I had a brilliant defense set up whereby I channeled all the goblins into one area in front of my fortress, then pulled two levers to trap them there in front of my catapults.  Except, I built raised bridges instead of retracting ones, so they very effectively protected my enemies against the best efforts of my siege operators... who then got interrupted by the trapped goblins and ran away.

[Magua]

Dragons destroy doors and buildings.

The story writes itself at that point.

[LegacyCWAL]

Damp ice is not safe to mine.  I have no idea why I thought it would be, but there was a corpse's worth of steel armor frozen in the damp tile, and next thing I knew, one of my original seven "has been encased in ice!"

[Dogman]

Digging out rooms with no roofs via ramps still causes cave-ins if a tree is present. Lost my last guy to that after the other 6 were either killed by fire imps or burned up in the forest fire they created.

[juanoleso]

When I think back, figuring out how to deal with rock ended up being pretty funny.  I remember designating huge rock stockpiles outside all over the place.

[Jake]

Though dwarves apparently cannot walk over it, the well does not in fact act as a wall. This is a particularly important consideration when your well is on the same z-level as the reservoir.

[Dadamh]

Pressure exists in water in this game.  Most games with water politely ignore pressure.

My well was active and I decided that I was fine with it, and promptly began ignoring it.  However, the well was fed from a lake on the surface.  (My brain didn't work, sue me) and a bit later I started getting "Urist cancels drink: Dangerous terrain".  What?  Half my fort was flooded!  Fun times.

[LegoLord]

A ballista will hurt your dwarves.

[Foa]

The only way to make a brook go down a level is by sacrificing a miner to make a ramp below the brook.

I killed my starting miners, and destroyed my animal farm...

[inaluct]

You can't bring titan cages to the depot.

Also, if one of your dwarves gets thrown and lands on a workshop tile that's inaccessible, it'll just rot there. Sometimes, wounded dwarves will keep yelling about things that are gone, too.

[Zorgn]

What's with the massive alert spamming going on there? You let a titan loose in the hospital?

[Jetman123]

Ye gods. 1746 interrupts?!