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[Zidane]

I forgot that if volcano's aren't being drained into HFS, they will constantly refill.

I only remembered that fact, AFTER REMOVING MORE OF THE VOLCANO WALL, SPEEDING UP THE BURNING DEATH.

[Skivverus]

After killing the hill titan with the (fortunately non-poisonous) icy spit, I discovered one of my butchers trying to lug the carcass over to one of my butcher shops, with the little blue down-arrow indicating thirst. Nice - didn't know this guy was edible. And at 10k+ Uristweights, that had to be a lot of meat. Unfortunately, all that weight meant the butcher was making fairly slow progress to the shops; I'd set up shops both on the surface and in the first-level caverns to deal with all the wolves and deer that wandered by on the one hand, and all the troglodytes, elk birds, and crundles on the other.
Guess which one the butcher decides to try lugging the titan to.

Now, guess again.

Congratulations, you're right both times.

After dealing with a few things elsewhere in the fort, I came back to check on the butcher's progress, and found the titan corpse abandoned just outside the bottom of the cavern stairwell. Soon, it was picked up again - and this time the butcher (not my only one, incidentally) started dragging the thing back up the stairs.

End result: miasma, facepalm, and a dumped hill titan corpse.

[James.Denholm]

It's such a drag when they do that.

[lastrix]

after 4 years of playing i finnaly found that my cavers doesn't contain ANY wood or shrub... and this happened when i don't have any underground seeds ( at embark seeds and drinks wasn't allowed somewhy... any world i make - no drinks and seeds ).
So crap... at least i'm good since humans still bring some distillable shrubs.

[Zidane]

after 4 years of playing i finnaly found that my cavers doesn't contain ANY wood or shrub... and this happened when i don't have any underground seeds ( at embark seeds and drinks wasn't allowed somewhy... any world i make - no drinks and seeds ).
So crap... at least i'm good since humans still bring some distillable shrubs.

I believe caverns need water for plants to appear.

[lastrix]

No, there were mud and on last level bloody saplings/trees appeared, but no shrubs, at all!
When i lowered amount of semimegabeast caverns, everything become ok on new map.

[Lord Shonus]

A ratman thief cut off my militia commander's head with a copper dagger just now.

[Uzu Bash]

Did you know that if you channel all cardinal directions around a well, it goes away?

...damn, I liked that bucket.

[Gr33kjester]

Biggest Face Palm I've had was when I gave a -Steel War Hammer- to my recruit, and let him spar against my legendary swordsdwarf, the recruit smashed his head in, then, my fort died to 6 ambushes at once... 

[Shootandrun]

Dwarf 1: Hey, look, an ambush.
Overseer: Every one back to the fort! Legendary axedwarves, get to the defense line! We will stand against these... What?
Dwarf 2 as been struck down.
Dwarf 3 as been struck down.
Dwarf 4 as been struck down.
[...]
Dwarf 143 as been struck down.
No more settlement.

Little, little problem with the "floodingmagmatrapofthedeaththatkills". You know. I use a lever system to lock some doors and get the goblins to the good ones, to burn them. Sad thing is, i selected the wrong burrow, so my legendary axedwarves have all melted in the burrow "Lure them here, nobles" while my whole fortress was going to the defense line.

*Facepalm*

[NewSheoth]

Forgetting to set up proper defenses after making an expensive artifact. Cue settlement slaughter by a small swordsgoblin ambush.

[Zidane]

My first goblin ambush consisted of only Lashers, they killed several dwarfs before I realized what the hell was happening. While this was happening a Cave Crocodile started butchering the dwarfs in my dining room.

Turns out I forgot to lock the door to the caverns, and I also build cages, instead of cage traps....

[Reese]

So, the elves that visit my fort bring me lots of wood (good thing, since my fort is on a beach that, despite what the embark info said, has no trees whatsoever!)

So they visit for the second time, and I trade with them and wait for them to leave, and I get the message that they do so.  Some months later "Elf merchant has become Melancholy." "Elf merchant has gone berserk!"

****! I raised my drawbridge for some reason, and I forgot to lower it again to let the merchants out!

I now have a berserk elf merchant (goes down quick to my untrained military) and a berserk mule (takes out a glass maker's spine before finally succumbing to about 5 dogs and a couple of raw recruits- the glass maker dies by suffocation.)

one dead glass maker, a couple minor injuries otherwise... and my food stock pile and main dining hall are covered in blood and **** bins of cloth and other worthless junk the elves were carrying.

So I save scum to not have to deal with cleaning up the merchants' junk. (the glass maker was a recent migrant, who cares, and the rest is just training for my medical dorfs; yay training!)

[drseptapus]

I just almost had a heart attack because on my new embark I found a little group of "g"s. I dug as fast as I could equipped my lone axe dwarf, and assigned my hunting dogs. Then I looked at the invaders. They were groundhogs not goblins.

[CaveIn]

I was just finished laying out this bedroom design: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/File:Hactar1_Mandelbrot_Tree.png
My miner happily ran to work, and a few seconds later...
You have discovered an expansive cavern deep underground
FUUUUUUUUUUUU-

(I know there's probably some script to lay out this sort of thing, but when I'm going fractal I want to do the work myself <.<)