I built an artificial tank of water a few levels down and was building a well to it. Being my first time, I thought a dwarf could survive a one space fall to water.
I miss caculated how fast the tub filled and it was like a 4 Z fall.. My nice level 10 miner at the bottom of the well with a steel pickaxe:P
Same here yesterdaynight. I channeled 1 tile, making a nice little ramp so the miner could get in to finish punching through the ceiling of my water-reservoir. Made my furnace operator/miner dig the next tile, thinking 2 levels of water is enough to break his fall. Well, it did break him however, making him drown
Another one yesterday: had my first siege ever with goblins riding mounts. Never got beakdogs or any of the such, but now I had a vile force of darkness showing up (just as the elf merchants were coming inside my fort towards the TD), consisting of 14 goblin bowmen, and a gobbo maceman riding a
jabberer.
Now I started this fort because I got facinated by the idea of having your fort emerge from the side of a canyon, and I had found a map with a brook cutting through a hill. Not really a canyon but close enough. My entrance was 1z above the brook in the side of the hill, and the only acces-way was a stairs from my entrance upward to the top of the hill. I realised while playing I could make the stairs in the middle above the brook (1 square away from the hills on both sides of the brook), to be accessed only by a lowered drawbridge.
So I tell everyone to go inside, and raise the drawbridge. Safe, even for a building-destroying monster, right? No, I forgot to remove the original stairs connecting my entrance to the top of the hill.. *facepalm*
(and my cagetraps weren't reloaded yet due to shortage of cages)
So I rush to deconstruct, while the goblins are wading through the brook to get to the other side where they can reach the stairs. "I hope they send someone out able to take an arrow or two..". So finally, to deconstruct the 2 pieces of stairs, out rush my legendary blacksmith, and a child. *minor facepalm*
Long story short, they don't manage to deconstruct in time, the blacksmith running inside after taking an arrow in the head, and the child fleeing...away from the stairs into the landscape. *minor facepalm*
I couldn't leave the child to her fate, so I stationed my military near the entrance just in case, but the child runs back for the stairs, and
TAKES 64 ARROWS BEFORE DIEING (about 16 got lodged in her wounds). She would've been rich from all the silver arrows sticking out of her. Interesting to note: she got dabbling wrestler/dodger/fighter skills from being shot.
Oh, and one military guy couldn't stand the screams probably, so he rushed out the door while his buddies were still picking up their equipment *major facepalm*
In the end, I send everyone out to save the first guy, but 4 of my guys end up dead (training axes don't do much damage), the jabberer and the gobbo maceman luckily trapped in some not-yet-used-up cagetraps along with 3 bowmen and the rest beaten off. Luckily, the militia captain was equipped properly, and he did his re-enactment of the Monty Python black knight sketch, with the goblins as black knights.
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