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[Spectre]

Pumps?

[deoxys413]

I stopped counting the facepalms after six. I'm currently building a fortress in hell without a military, hell wasn't all that bad so i didn't feel like dealing with the bugs and such. I'm in the process of building (or at least trying to) my new annex in the presence of cinder demon ticks.
Now for the facepalms by type

facepalm #1: forbidding stone prevents dorfs from charging in to store the stone in a stockpile
facepalm #2: the raising bridge that was serving as my bulkhead was actually a retracting one
facepalm #3: forgetting to save after my bridge is done being fixed
facepalm #4: forgetting to save my game after the bridge is done while reading the forums

On the bright side, I did manage to kill the skinless zebra that was halting my annex

[timtek]

Distracted because of watching doctor who i stupidly assumed that pressing a after generating a map would accept it, rather than aborting which it actually does.
Yeah next time i generate a large map i'll be more careful after 3 hours spent generating.

Double facepalm when i finish generating a second world, only to find that the last map i aborted still exists anyway 

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

That is graphic awesome.

[veok]

So. Looks like you can build more than one wall at a time. >.< UMHK!!!!!!!!!!!

[MaximumZero]

Floors, farm plots, roads, stairs and bridges, too. Among all sorts of other crap.

[James.Denholm]

Technically, if your dorfs can path to it, it can have a job assigned to it, irrelevant of any other builderings going on.

[MaximumZero]

Yes, but designating hundreds of squares worth of walls and floors one at a time sucks.

[lanceleoghauni]

*sigh* I didn't realize the retaining walls around each cell of a water reactor was a required feature. I guess I better get building fast or else the entire chamber will be flooded and therefore useless.

[Rockphed]

When you are running away from flying enemies with cliffs on both sides, remember to turn off dodge.  Else you will end up with several mortal wounds right as a hoard of enemies converges on your face.

[lanceleoghauni]

whoops, Trying to recover Material I breached one of the cells that was an aquifer tile. *sigh* my glassworks is now flooded, thankfully I got a door installed and time so my loser fort won't flood.

[Sidhien]

Guess what magma does when you sleep in it?

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[Samrobot]

My biggest facepalm is when i forgot that floors cant be supported by diagnol floors so i lost 2 miners and a fisherdwarf

[MrNuke]

Plenty of facepalms for me.
1: "Urist McMiner cancels dig, to injured"...huh? Ohh... forgot to undesignate that support tile.
2: Goblin ambush late in my fortress, and I DIDNT BUILD ANY WALLS
    ps: The fortress was going for 3 hours
3: Embarking into a terrifying biome with a starting military guy to protect
4: Letting my dorfs stay outside in scorching weather.

[koruth]

Found a rather loverly embark point for the newest fort: tons of flux, river, *three* layers of sand for massive storage space.  Light tree growth, but that can be fixed by setting up a decent tower cap farm underground (a usual precursor to the inevitable megaproject stage of almost every one of my forts)

Unfortunately, the river was full of hippos.  And the wagon stopped two tiles away from the river.  And the hippos.

I've had embarks on terrifying terrain with no military last longer than that before.

Of course, reclaimed it immediately after, and found out there were a couple huge veins of coal in the rockier parts of the sand layer, so -hippo roast- all around!

[bremarv]

Urist McFisher cancels Fish: interupted by Giant Olm
Me: why are you complaining about it looking at you? its not flying so it cant get to you.
Me ignores Urist McFishers complaint.
Urist McFisher is renaimed Urist McDeceased.
Me: oh, right. he can just swim in the river...