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[Warlord255]

Like when I built a fortress into the side of a chasm?

Now I eternally hate Swallowmen.

I've always wanted to do that.

Never have.

Do  not  do  it.

Unless you bring a few marksdwarves.

In my nascent days as I was just learning the ways of Dwarf Fortressery, I had a fort next to a chasm, with a bridge across. It was fairly successful.

One day, my stonecrafter was assaulted by Troglodytes and Ratmen. My main fighter and his small entourage arrived late to the battle, leaving her in a highly crippled state - with both eyes torn out, among other injuries.

She had a Grudge against him. Poignant.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Like when I built a fortress into the side of a chasm?

Now I eternally hate Swallowmen.

I've always wanted to do that.

Never have.

Do not do it.

[tigrex]

I'd like to thank everyone here for giving me the inspiration to build a chasm-side underwater tomb complex, preferably guarded by carp.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

I have decided to make a WATERFALL MACHINE *cue lightning*
I think I'll probably do a Johnson and destroy the map, but here goes.

[Peewee]

Hope ya can survive the water FPS =S

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

Hope ya can survive the water FPS =S

I'm on a 200 dwarf fort that's been around 10 years and I'm getting 25+fps.
On a mountain.
I'm fairly certain my rig can handle it.
If not, I can always turn it off.

[Peewee]

;-; Your rig makes my rig cry.

[Kruniac]

Before I realized that water pressure existed, I embarked one day on the bank of a huge freshwater lake. I dug down about four z-levels and decided to channel out a drainage area for what would later be a well.

So I mine out the wall to the lake bottom, expecting to get a leakage of water trickling in, falling on either side of several channels I had dug to fill the well's source up.

Instead, as soon as the wall went down, literally 3/4 of the z-level was covered in water in ONE "tick" of game time. In the second "tick", the water was up to 3/7.

...It was the level ABOVE where my meeting hall was. The water quickly found its way downstairs, much to the chagrin of the entire population that was hanging around down there.

Much to my surprise, before everyone drowned, the water actually filled the bottom z level of my fort, the z level it spewed into originally, and the z-level above that one.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

The water-machine works!
The problem was that it leaked. Apparently gear assemblies don't block water.
http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-4249-inkdepths

[MuonDecay]

I recently decided I wanted to have a multi-level vaulted ceiling above my dining room.

I constructed a set of stairs, and told my dwarves to dig upward to begin... then I remembered, at about the same time that the miner ran away in panic, that the level above it was an aquifer. Oops.

[Srath47]

I think this merits a thread about fortress design screwups.

it does seem that way  but hey its dwarf fortress it just happens lol. i usually get carried away using Windmills/waterwheels making water falls and flood my place out but hey its fun.

[Skynet 2.0]

I started building a new fort near the ocean. I dug down a few levels, and started to make stockpiles. I decided to build a well with a screw pump as a purifier, connected by a small tunnel to the ocean. The problem? I forgot that it connected to the bottom level of the ocean, out of three. My miners quickly drowned while the water poured past my screw pump, filled the cistern in seconds, and flooded three levels of my fort.

[Maggarg - Eater of chicke]

what shall I mis-design now?

[Peewee]

Magma shower.
Failing that, drowning chamber.

[woose1]

Magma shower.
Failing that, drowning chamber.

Magma showers cause (YOU HAVE HAD A CAVE IN ROFLROFL) message over and over again if it comes in contact with water, so be carefull.