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[Horizonblue]

My hunter was sent out to find food.  He found a groundhog.
There proceeded to be an epic 12 page battle between him and this ground hog.  A real, nail biting, rip-roaring, slug out with my dwarf... and a groundhog.
It lasted until I had my military come and wipe the floor with the rodent, but the hunter is still recovering from his brush with fuzzy death.
I'm not sure if I should have saved him.

[mikefictiti0us]

Ugh. I'm making an above ground fortress by flooding premade shells with magma\water. I forgot to place hatches on the topmost level of my central staircase and hilarity ensued when the magma began to flood the main dining room. Cue a third of my population running around with the fat melting off their bodies.

[melomel]

Well, I thought I could get an easy well by channeling into a tile I knew was aquifer. I forgot that if the aquifer is on the same level as the channel designation, it will still flow out instead of just into the channel. First facepalm.

Then, I tried to stop it with magma from the nearby volcano to salvage my mines. I now have a central staircase that is flooded with either water, magma, or is blocked with obsidian. Second facepalm.

Aquifers explode water.  They are piņatas of fort-flooding.  :[

[goukaryuujin]

during a mini-siege, where all of my hunters got killed off. I sent all my war elephants out, leaving the fortress ungaurded from the now tantruming dwarf miner. I watched the fortress die in 3 minuts. 

[Phreak]

Oh i feel so dumb: i had a roof of my mountain designated to be  channeled out(6x6) and there were 6 dwarfs on the roof and they had dug out all the tiles connecting to ground so that the roof fell with the 6 dwarfs(including my best hunter,miner and my only clerk/expdition leader and my best warrior) and they fell onto my massive 7x7 bridge, destroying it and falling on 2 other of my bridges,destroying them too(which had my 2 brewers and another miner as well as 2 dogs, my only cat and 3 cows) then destroying 5 layers and taking out the floor i had made to keep out the 3 forgotten beasts that were waiting under it(they could fly)....needless to say that was the worst mistake i have ever made...maybe smaller bridges and thinking about what i dig out would have saved my fortress.
oh and i had 4 other soldiers who had only just begun training and they were the first to die by the forgotten beasts.

[Cheese]

Dwarves smash bridges when falling on them from a height?

[Flaede]

Dwarves smash bridges when falling on them from a height?

Cave-ins smash bridges. The dwarves just happened to be on top of one.

[Neopolis]

Signed up just to tell you about the death of my miner, one of the first seven.

This was my first fortress where I was actually doing cool projects... Including a drowning chamber. I made a chamber with hatches at the bottom and some floodgates so I could easily drain the room. I even had pumps that would pump all the water back to the surface and dump them back into the ocean, where I would get the water. The pump was at -3 z or something, so I had to make a small pump stack.

Anyway, everything seemed done, I couldn't think of a single thing that could go wrong. Cue my miner tapping the wall and in a single frame, THE ENTIRE ROOM FLOODS. A small lag spike, and suddenly everything is 7/7. Including the tile my miner was standing in. This makes sense, since if you really tapped the ocean beneath sea level there'd be a lot of pressure too, but, since when does Dwarf Fortress make sense? I was expecting it to be just like tapping a brook or river...

[MaximumZero]

Urist McMiner cancels Dig: Can Hear the Ocean

[Tywuzhere]

My weaponsmith is posessed, he's made two masterpiece weapons...
I know, this will not go over well, especially since my greed will make me want to sell those to traders.

[Ishamoridin]

You can't sell Artifacts

Just make sure they're not stolen by kobolds!

[Tommy]

Oh wait, dolomite is a flux stone isn't it.  And here I was for four years thinking I didn't have any flux.

[Shurhaian]

Oh wait, dolomite is a flux stone isn't it.  And here I was for four years thinking I didn't have any flux.

Not just a flux stone, but (if you're in 31.x) a magma safe flux stone.

[Tommy]

Oh wait, dolomite is a flux stone isn't it.  And here I was for four years thinking I didn't have any flux.

Not just a flux stone, but (if you're in 31.x) a magma safe flux stone.

I'd noticed it was magma-safe (and not only that, but so magma-safe that not even fire snakes can touch it), but had completely failed to notice it was flux.

[nucleus222]

Didnt plan my channeling right and managed to severly injure my 3 legendary miners and one of the novices.