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[Jackrabbit]

You can make statues out of metal ore! And they are worth pretty much the same! ARGH.

What have you discovered in DF that could have come at a better, earlier, time?

[roguester]

When selecting materials for a large construction, instead of hitting the enter key 81 times you can hit shift+enter to select all the materials of one type at one.

[Glacies]

I always read "Work dogs" as "Work days" for some reason, till recently. Now I know better.

[JoshuaFH]

I didn't know about mass-forbidding/melting/dumping via the z-menu until i was already WAY into the game. gotta say, that made everything way less tedious.

[Silleh Boy]

Hmm. the earliest i remember wishing i knew that before... Not that i remember it all too clearly, but here it is:

back in the 2D version i think it was, i had a system of moats set up around a castle that i'd built, that had secondary channels set up to act as traps/means to keep my dwarves indoors, and being in a hurry to finish one as i was worried that i'd get a seige, i'd installed a door instead of a floodgate in one of the spots. i had double bridges raised on either side, to stop them being destroyed because i think this was my... magma moat.

anyway, this particular 'moat' was set so water'd keep flowing into it without solidifying it as it was in a channel (as i recall, overflowing water wouldn't set magma in a channel solid in the 2D version, due to the way channel's worked.) once i set it off, thus causing scalding clouds of steam to boil anything that tried to head down that route, as a way of doubly protecting it as well as giving me a frontal steam protected entrance.

I found out after the first run, that the door, even when closed and locked wasn't stopping the flow of fluid. This wouldn't have been a problem, if it wasn't for the fact that the first run, was caused by something destroying one of my floodgates. Toggling the bridge/door seemed to do nothing, and my last resort attempt to cave in the area ALMOST worked. apart from the fact that the water was coming on the inside of the magma channel, and thus directly into my fort.

I've been wary of undertaking fluid based projects ever since.

[jester]

damn I miss steam defences, moats that are dangerous to walk near, not just fall into, now those were the days.

[Warlord255]

Forbidding items on death.

[varkarrus]

Farms.

[Danarca]

I didn't know about mass-forbidding/melting/dumping via the z-menu until i was already WAY into the game. gotta say, that made everything way less tedious.

Just learned that today aswell, yup.
It hides my workshops though >.>

[Tsktac]

You can't drown cats in a cage .

[Grumman]

That you can use the mouse when designating things.

That you can stack wells without them interfering.

[Muz]

Jobs. And managers who manage jobs. It's better than pressing add bed to a workshop 30 times and then trying to keep track of it.

[Duke 2.0]

 Trees stop ramps from being built underneath.

 Let me tell you, many an earthwork town was stopped because the stupid miner got crushed every time. Seven times. With each of the founders.

[Eatnobles4breakfast]

You know, digging ramps beneath trees actualy dosn't kill you! My lil brother did it alot (he was puting ramps all along the side of the river for some reason) and the dwarves were knocking trees into the river, but that didn't kill them. What killed them was when the current suddenly took up the resulting logs and bludgened the dwarves downstream to death! the freakin' coolest thing that ever happened

[toast]

that you can now build walls/floors/other constructions multiple squares at a time, using u,m,k,h or w/e.

I lost a lot of time on that one. Probably took like 2 years off this keyboard's life too.