It is not your fault, Dwarf Fortress Forum, but rather my own.
I just began recently my first fortress, or, well, it is my first fortress that I designed.
Before this, I played through the walkthrough tutorial someone made
hereIt began quite well, I had everything organized, the perfect location, everything.
I discovered a magma pipe very early on, while I was trying to build a production layer in my fortress. I planned everything I build that point on on that.
So, today, I turn on Dwarf Fortress load up my save, 'My Dwarf Fortress' and I work on it for a while, about an hour or so. But in this hour or so, I built my living quarters, all of my flood gates (as precautions for the magma, also I have a small pond I was going to put somewhat underground), and my dining room. When I finally have the courage to open the magma flood gate and start making my magma production area, BAM an error pops up in my face, and Dwarf Fortress just turns off (I don't remember what it was, it just happened, and I am angry >=-O)
I reload it, and it is basically all my hard work gone, and the work was done from when I loaded it before my hard work.
Can someone please say some encouraging words? or maybe a way I could get my hard work back? since this wasn't really losing, and it wasn't very fun... ='(
Oh, and if some people want to say worse situations to make mine seem insignificant, go right ahead.