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[ulf]

Todays face palm: Realizing that you forgot to link the bridge blocking the cavern access up to a lever before using said access as a dump for water from an aquifier..

[nezclaw]

I accidentally designated my GCS to be trained.

[Naturegirl1999]

I accidentally designated my GCS to be trained.

What’s wrong with training them?

[Superdorf]

They won't spit webs at most things once they've been trained. Makes it way harder to set up an unending fount of weavable spider-silk.

[nekoexmachina]

That's what you use a chained goblin for

[nekoexmachina]

So for whatever reason, I got 4 barons appointed.

All 4 are my steel-bearing war-forged swordmasters of legends.

Which is not only the backbone of my military, which is de facto the only military i got.

GOod thing is they can be commanded as military unit of barons. Bad thing, they lose their rooms every time I send them offsite.

Bad thing, 4x mandates every now and then. :S

[nezclaw]

That's what you use a chained goblin for

first i need a captured goblin.

[Mathel]

I started genning a custom medium world, only customization was removal of bogeymen. I forgot to shorten history from the 1050 years to something more manageable.

That was 3 hours ago. 15 minutes ago, in the year 780, I decided that it is taking too long and decided to stop it.
6 minutes ago, year 804, it finaly responded and let me select (u)se world as is.
During the writing of the last line, it finaly finished.

[nezclaw]

I started genning a custom medium world, only customization was removal of bogeymen. I forgot to shorten history from the 1050 years to something more manageable.

That was 3 hours ago. 15 minutes ago, in the year 780, I decided that it is taking too long and decided to stop it.
6 minutes ago, year 804, it finaly responded and let me select (u)se world as is.
During the writing of the last line, it finaly finished.

Oh wow. I usually don't let it get past 125 when genning.

[Bydth]

 Just starting out a new fort, looking around, getting the lay of the land, when I realize the fort has a metamorphic uppermost layer. “No” I say to myself. “Not another bloody no-sedimentary fort.” So I add [ore_iron] to diorite. The dorfs have finished digging, time for the first stockpile. Armor: yes, bars: yes, food: yes, weapons: yes. Refuse? Flashes back to previous fort. yes.
  Got iron smelting from diorite, making a set of iron armor. Some time later: Looks in stocks and sees X(-iron chestplate-)X. “Oh no! - somebody’s getting mauled!”
Checks unit list. Nothing out of the ordinary, orders up second iron suit just to be safe. Checks back later: more rotten armor. “Well, this armor is useless now, I can’t even melt it, smelting ore is more efficient! I  could put down a refuse stockpile outside, or I can save everyone’s time and enable Refuse on the main stockpile.”

“Enable Refuse on main stockpile...” Checks settings.

Gnaws Keyboard

[asialsky]

In another hilarious blunder, I discovered that my airships have nothing holding them together.
I wanted to make a flying metal wagon, and even made a syndrome to turn non-dwarves into it. The problem occurs exactly 1 frame after they transform.
Frame 1: Yay, airship successfully modded in! It's alive!
Frame 2: *List of "Airship metals"*

I guess I need to recheck the colossus/wagon raws and figure out what missing tag causes instant death.

[LordPorkins]

That does conjure up a very amusing mental image of an insane dwarf engineer constantly trying to perfect his design only for it to explode every time he completes it.

He is known a “Tor SingedBeard.”

[TheFlame52]

In another hilarious blunder, I discovered that my airships have nothing holding them together.
I wanted to make a flying metal wagon, and even made a syndrome to turn non-dwarves into it. The problem occurs exactly 1 frame after they transform.
Frame 1: Yay, airship successfully modded in! It's alive!
Frame 2: *List of "Airship metals"*

I guess I need to recheck the colossus/wagon raws and figure out what missing tag causes instant death.

Your gaseous tissues could be changing states. Try looking at fire men and iron men.

[Bomrek_BucketMonger]

I once embarked on a glacier biome. When I was irrigateing the room i was going to have my farm in a huge wall of water instantly flooded my fortress and drowned all my dorfs. That is how I learned about water pressure.

[IncompetentFortressMaker]

That'll ruin your fort, all right.