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[Hamster Man]

Nice! I recently found out that if a diplomat has seen a trap, that trap is disabled for the rest of their civ. Of course it might have been nice if I knew that -before- the elves sieged me.

"Oh they'll never get past my trap-hall!"
-two minutes later-
"Wtf? Why are all my jobs cancelling?"
-several screen movements later-
"I'VE GOT ELVES IN MY KITCHEN!!!"

[AncientEnemy]

I ran out of booze because every barrel I had was full of camel fat.

i just wrote the tale: http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=31933.0

[Heron TSG]

Murphy, triplets aren't all born at the exact same time. that would hurt like HELL. 

[Thor2axe]

I flooded fortress after fortress, because my floodgates wouldnt hold back magma. I couldnt figure it out. And then, suddenly, I was thinking that magma floodgates should have to have obsidian mechanisms. Oh yeah, they do have to.... duh.

[Yanlin]

"I'VE GOT ELVES IN MY KITCHEN!!!"

Well cook them.

[Tradanbattlan]

[ThtblovesDF]

O god so true!

[woose1]

You nailed it. How they stand there after like dumbasses.

[Nesoo]

I thought I was being so clever making a moat around my entrance.  I'll let the pictures talk.

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/2083/justasiplanned.png
http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/5364/ornot.png

Yeah, I've done that too... but I was lucky enough to notice before it could do any extensive damage. I don't think I lost a single room, though one ended up having some mud in it.

Of course, then the moat froze over when winter came, so it was all rather pointless to begin with...

[sonerohi]

I gave my dwarves the ability to breathe fire, and forgot to give them fire immunity. When an ambush met my extremely popular speardwarf in the middle of a forest, bad things happened. Horrible things.

[Hagadorn]

I gave my dwarves the ability to breathe fire, and forgot to give them fire immunity. When an ambush met my extremely popular speardwarf in the middle of a forest, bad things happened. Horrible things.

... Unspeakable things?

[ToonyMan]

Rule #1:  Don't charge bow or crossbow wielding creatures.

Rule #2:  You can't grow plants on dry rock.

Rule #3:  Don't butcher fire imps.

Rule #4:  Carp are deadly.

Rule #5:  Dwarves are stupid.

Rule #6:  CATS ARE THE BEST DOOP DOOP DE DOOP!!

[praguepride]

I thought I was clever by putting a walkway above the underground river to give Urist McDwarf a solid platform to fish off of.

Urist McDwarf cancels construction of floor: Interrupted by olmman

What? Force job! Force job! Just build it, they're just in the water below you, they can't hurt you.

Urist McDwarf was struck down.

Oh yeah, amphibious creatures can walk on land...and the olmman, snakemen, giant toads, and the cave crocodiles infesting the river..are...all...amphibious. Ah crap!

[ZergSpartan]

I thought I was clever by putting a walkway above the underground river to give Urist McDwarf a solid platform to fish off of.

Urist McDwarf cancels construction of floor: Interrupted by olmman

What? Force job! Force job! Just build it, they're just in the water below you, they can't hurt you.

Urist McDwarf was struck down.

Oh yeah, amphibious creatures can walk on land...and the olmman, snakemen, giant toads, and the cave crocodiles infesting the river..are...all...amphibious. Ah crap!

At least he didnt leap (read: Dodge) off and try to wrestle them.

Anyhoo,
I had an aboveground fortress where several preassure plates made an automated drawbridge-a-pult defense work, after an inital test I start receiving messages that Dwarves are splattering against things. Whoops, a locked door is forcing them to path over it and...
...there goes my Legendary woodcutter!
*SPLAT*
... The cooks rushing out after his stuff!
*CRUNCH*
... now everyones making a mad dash for the scattered items!
*OH THE DWARFMANITY*

[Skorpion]

- Mining a hole in my elf drowner system, causing a flooding of my trade depot that took a full year to solve.

EDIT:
- Modding the elf drowner, but getting the logic wrong with the windmill. Cue partly flooded trade depot while I install another lever and mechanism system to correct the error by inverting the gear assembly.