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[xZippy]

Probably a common boring one, but I forgot to build a well and my dwarves started almost dying of thirst. I maxed out my embark points and got enough alcohol to completely fill 2 castles, but they still drank all that in a painfully small amount of time. I wouldn't be surprised if their saliva just permanently became ethanol after drinking that much.

[Dunamisdeos]

I generally have 3000 or so booze as a baseline.

If it gets too low i just have them process plants into booze until they run out of barrels.

[nezclaw]

oh here's a good one from early in my dorfing career.
hey wait i can undesignate areas to be dug??

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

Quite recently, my 4 troll prisoners and 1 goblin prisoner had been stockpiled. Some dwarven merchants arrived. So what did I do? I designated the cages to be brought to the trade depot (they were listed under Pets) and a dwarf promptly went to deliver a troll. But, rather than dragging the cage to the depot, he released the troll and caused mayhem as the troll ran about smacking dwarves. On another note, a stray dog of mine earned a name near the end of this, presumably for killing the troll (which was not reported as dead via announcement, but checking the unit list and Dead/Missing section showed its name).

[nezclaw]

yeah that's a known issue.

I was wondering why my dwarfs weren't equipping the goblinite outside to get some armor practice in, and realized that i still had the inside burrow active. and they were training nekkid. oops.

[Ulfarr]

moddedgamesproblems #19998:

After a lot of test embarks/world gens I found a wonderful location near a volcano. It turns out there isn't much water/vegetation around here and my civ can't farm. But there are honey bees...LOTS of honey bees.
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I forgot to give my civ the "make mead" reaction.

[Naturegirl1999]

moddedgamesproblems #19998:

After a lot of test embarks/world gens I found a wonderful location near a volcano. It turns out there isn't much water/vegetation around here and my civ can't farm. But there are honey bees...LOTS of honey bees.
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I forgot to give my civ the "make mead" reaction.

Looks like you need to invest in the materials to make honey. Good luck

[TomiTapio]

moddedgamesproblems #19998:
After a lot of test embarks/world gens I found a wonderful location near a volcano. It turns out there isn't much water/vegetation around here and my civ can't farm. But there are honey bees...LOTS of honey bees.
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I forgot to give my civ the "make mead" reaction.

Could edit a random existing reaction to become the mead reaction. Or cave plants into drinks?
Could generate the world again from the exported text file of world gen params.

[Ulfarr]

Thanks for the suggestions but it won't be needed

The embark might not have that much readily available plants to gather but it supports a few different types of fruit bearing trees. After the first couple of years and with a bit of care on which tress i cut down I managed to get enough of them to have a failry steady supply of fruits for brewing purposes.

And I have messed up more reactions other than mead. Off to find out how I can regenerate that world.

[Ianflow]

And I have messed up more reactions other than mead. Off to find out how I can regenerate that world.

It Was Inevitable
(really sorry to hear that, iirc there should be something to give the exact gen'd map, and history seed)

[Traynack]

Ok, here's mine: I had created a burrow, an alert system, a military squad, and a front gate... that wasn't connected to a lever. Next few minutes a bunch of goblins come in and I see the "Your fortress has crumbled to its end" screen. *sigh* and we were going so well... oh well. Loosing is fun, right? Right?

[Pvt. Pirate]

Ok, here's mine: I had created a burrow, an alert system, a military squad, and a front gate... that wasn't connected to a lever. Next few minutes a bunch of goblins come in and I see the "Your fortress has crumbled to its end" screen. *sigh* and we were going so well... oh well. Loosing is fun, right? Right?

that unconnected gate lever is the classic and i should know by now, but it happens again and again. most times i just can't decide where to put the lever.

[TomiTapio]

Next few minutes a bunch of goblins come in and I see the "Your fortress has crumbled to its end" screen. *sigh*

"pause on animal or citizen death" in the announcements init, is combat watcher's friend!
[ADV_CREATURE_DEATH:A_D:D_D:UCR_A]
[CITIZEN_DEATH:A_D:D_D:UCR_A:P:R]
[PET_DEATH:A_D:D_D:UCR_A:P:R] will nag on butchering, but quite handy to detect the violence
P = pause, R= recenter view, D_D is "mention in fort mode"

[Astrid]

that unconnected gate lever is the classic and i should know by now, but it happens again and again. most times i just can't decide where to put the lever.

I tend to put all my levers in a small room right beside the main dining room to have a near guarantee that someone always has time to pull. The 'N'otes command is very handy in naming them appropiately.

[NordicNooob]

I tend to put all my levers in a small room right beside the main dining room to have a near guarantee that someone always has time to pull. The 'N'otes command is very handy in naming them appropiately.

You can name the levers with q instead of just sticking a note over the top of them. Open up the lever like you're gonna pull it, then hit CTRL+n to name it something. Works with bridges and stuff too, so in a succession fort it lets other players know exactly what bridges the lever hooks to and not just "is the west north gate the one in the caverns or the one on the surface?"