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[MaximumZero]

If you're using lava/magma and getting corpses, something's not right.

[antymattar]

That is just awesome...

A friend of mine asked about what he saw on screen:
"Is that lava?"
"No", I responded "that is the blood of my enemies"
He: "Can you give me a copy of that game?"

 

Why can't my friends be like that.

"What the Carp* are you playing?"
"Dwarf Fortress"
"Dude, it looks like a bunch of dots moving around! What are you supposed to do?"
"Survive and build useless constructs of Magma."
"Well, can you shoot anyone?"
"with a Crossbow and Arrow"
"Well that is gay."
"It is good once you get into it. There are plenty of things you can do!"
"Like Dropping a Nuke after a 25 kill streak?"
"Dude, there is no kill streak, you could kill a million Goblins, Elves, Humans, animals, and other stuff." Closest thing to a nuke is the 'Catsplosion theory'"
"Uhh, whatever this game sucks, there are no graphics and crap."

  Now I can only talk about Dwarf Fortress to Complete Strangers on a Fourm! No Offense.

*= Blocking a Vulgar word, is all.

No joke, dude. I'm working at a summer camp and you just quoted verbatum all the questions these little kids asked/responded with when they watched me playing it during lunch.

Kids these days, always with the fancy graphics and shoot-em-ups >>;

Damn right. Most of my friends think i'm a retard playing this, but infact they are the retards because they cant play it. they just dont compile.  [removed potty talk - tt]

[Organum]

Anty, dude...your spelling and vulgarity make your post the worst thing I've seen today.

On topic, a "one-eyed serpent" forgotten beast that I'd totally forgotten about came out of hiding when I sent a woodcutter out to harvest some wood from a previously closed off cavern. It killed two of my dwarves before I sealed the entrance. On its way out it got in a fight with a troll that, surprisingly, managed to escape with little damage. In fact, the forgotten beast itself was more wounded than the troll.

I also had a Blind Cave Ogre rip a mason's arm off. Not a good day for her.

[SethCreiyd]

I just realized my dwarves were burning all the feather wood.  I was gonna use that wood. 

[RCIX]

Anty, dude...your spelling and vulgarity make your post the worst thing I've seen today.

QFT

[afterthought]

Well I decided to expand a diagonal flow section in my magma tubing without realizing that now my magma forges are completely covered in magma. Woops.

[Ricky]

well, being nifty with embark points, bought an anvil, 4 copper bars, 1 bar of coke, and a few rocks of bitiminious coal, and used the coke without making more coke first

fail

[Ricky]

well, being nifty with embark points, bought an anvil, 4 copper bars, 1 bar of coke, and a few rocks of bitiminious coal, and used the coke without making more coke first

fail

even bigger facepalm: i have logs to make more coke

[Fistbeard]

I struck Adamantine within mere months of starting my fortress. This next spring, my Civ's king arrived.

He didn't even make it to the fortress before he died of old age.

[elfhater]

I just killed my expedition leader. He died of thirst. I had him tagged as a miner. I was digging a 1-square-wide diagonal channel to a cistern from the river. Half my dwarves ran down there to pick up gold nuggets (this map was riddled with gold) and would constantly bump into each other and lose path to the stockpile above ground, and they'd keep doing it. Nobody could get through. By the time I realized I needed to a) widen the channel to get them all out of it, and b) dig a back exit from the cistern into the bottom of my fort, they were all on the verge of dying. Then they died, starting with the expedition leader himself. Within a year of embark.

[melomel]

Haven't gotten an embark with a brook for a while now.  Been scraping by by draining pools into carefully hollowed-out future farm plot rooms, and then channeling what little overflow is left to start a small underground tree farm for emergencies.  Lots of re-walling the pools up after irrigation; lots of misshapen rooms.

And then I JUST REMEMBERED:  I'm sitting on an aquifer.  I have a windpower 40 map.  I have an infinite pinata of free water for the pumping.  D'oh.

ETA!!  Left the game unpaused while typing this up.  Found pages of bright pink death messages.

Oh, right.  Pterosaurs fly, don't they?  *facepalms*

[sjaakwortel]

"peasant urist is trowing a tantrum"
no danger at all rigth ?? well till i realised that he was my strongest fully steel equipped axedwarf. He chops off the left arms of two of my other axedwarfs who i send out to kill him.
ended up in a tantrum spiral and a reverce to save.

[Solace]

Hey, I hear ramps work better than stairs, lemme try that! I bet I have a pretty simple, compact way to make ramps too. Hey, why are all my miners sitting at the bottom of my new base and starving, rather than leaving and going to get food? Oh, ok, I made ramps that go down just fine, but...

[katyrnyn]

I hadn't managed to get my Magma shops up and running, so I hadn't made any armour yet.  But I had a handful of masterwork steel axes thanks to a formerly Fey Legendary Weaponsmith.  (I wanted to crank out some weapons before skill rust set in.  After that the emergency forge was deconstructed.)   Forgetting my complete lack of metal armours, I assign my two recently-Legendary fighters to a squad using all-steel armour and weapons.  Pretty soon they were sparring with the axes and gaining skill like mad dwarfs.  Until the end of their second or third season:

Urist McAxeNoob is unhappy. Urist McAxeNoob killed a sparring partner recently.  Urist McAxeNoob took joy in slaughter recently.  Urist McAxeNoob witnessed death recently.  Urist McAxeNoob lost a friend to tragedy recently....

So, yeah, sparring in the nude with Masterwork Steel BattleAxes is a bit lethal....

[TomiTapio]

ETA!!  Left the game unpaused while typing this up.  Found pages of bright pink death messages.

Set the fort to pause on citizen death: edit [CITIZEN_DEATH:A_D:D_D:BOX:P:R] into announcements-init.

I like to drain pools too, and not mess with rivers, brooks and aquifers.