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[Lupusater]

On the artifact side, my recently-possessed leatherworker just made a leather piccolo. As in, a literal skin flute. *facepalm*

Edit: checking the name, it is called "Calmbit"

[TheJackal]

A bucket.

Worst of all, most of them were possessed so they got no XP as well.

Use the bucket to make a well in your dining room. It'll keep the dorfs happy at least.

[bremarv]

Forgott about a magam pipe I was building that was crossing the river. A goblin ambush was discovered on my roof just outside the staircase into the busiest part of the fort. *facepalm*

I wonder how fast my military runs...

[Spaghetti7]

My first fortress was going good (well, good by Dwarf Fortress standards) then the first goblin ambush came.
After around half my dwarfs were slaughtered or crippled, I decided to pull the "Fuck this" lever, which should release a torrent of water to gush into my main hallways.
However, firstly it took a while for a dwarf missing a leg to crawl to the lever and pull it, but when the water was released it was not at high enough pressure. This meant it only made it about halfway down the hall, and even then it could not get past the doors, meaning the goblins were free to slaughter the remaining population  in a very indignified manner.

[frozen]

Making a fortress for the first time in a while, so I'm re-learning how much FUN can be had.

First bit of FUN involved waterfalls and pressure:  I naively channeled moat around my fortress including a waterfall but not accounting for the water shooting out from the edge of the cliff at all.  Commence world flood.  Also, an unlucky dwarf was downhill and he didn't survive his fall.

Second bit of FUN.  I try to fix this in the winter when the moat froze over.  First I successfully dammed the moat upstream of the waterfall.  But some of the moat later on is underground b/c I haven't bothered to carve the entire facade of my fortress yet (cliffside mega project upcoming).  I could have safely waited for spring thaw, but instead I send my miners to dig away the moat and give the water somewhere to drain.  Miners are outside in the cold, digging away the wall that holds the moat water in....  Two points if you know what happened next.

So when the ice thaws do I get my miners' bodies & picks back or are they ice-atom-smashed into oblivion?

[celem]

In my current community fort  my woodcutter suddenly 'canceled woodcutting: lost axe'. 

Weird, he heads off to grab another and a moment later 'canceled woodcutting: lost axe'.

Damnit!, ive only got 2 left and hardly any wood. 'canceled woodcutting: lost axe'.

Really! WTF! 'canceled woodcutting: lost axe'.

Oh.....hes on fire and just cremated all my training axes running back and forth between weapon pile and a tree

[MaximumZero]

Making a fortress for the first time in a while, so I'm re-learning how much FUN can be had.

First bit of FUN involved waterfalls and pressure:  I naively channeled moat around my fortress including a waterfall but not accounting for the water shooting out from the edge of the cliff at all.  Commence world flood.  Also, an unlucky dwarf was downhill and he didn't survive his fall.

Second bit of FUN.  I try to fix this in the winter when the moat froze over.  First I successfully dammed the moat upstream of the waterfall.  But some of the moat later on is underground b/c I haven't bothered to carve the entire facade of my fortress yet (cliffside mega project upcoming).  I could have safely waited for spring thaw, but instead I send my miners to dig away the moat and give the water somewhere to drain.  Miners are outside in the cold, digging away the wall that holds the moat water in....  Two points if you know what happened next.

So when the ice thaws do I get my miners' bodies & picks back or are they ice-atom-smashed into oblivion?

Pretty sure you get whatever they were carrying that was metal, and their skeletons.

[Artifakt]

My last fort was destroyed by a horrible incident involving improper irrigation and exits that were locked from the outside, due to several genius strokes of planning.

[NewSheoth]

On the artifact side, my recently-possessed leatherworker just made a leather piccolo. As in, a literal skin flute. *facepalm*

Edit: checking the name, it is called "Calmbit"

Yeeeah. Suggestive as hell. Freudian Dwarves anyone?

In my current community fort  my woodcutter suddenly 'canceled woodcutting: lost axe'. 

Weird, he heads off to grab another and a moment later 'canceled woodcutting: lost axe'.

Damnit!, ive only got 2 left and hardly any wood. 'canceled woodcutting: lost axe'.

Really! WTF! 'canceled woodcutting: lost axe'.

Oh.....hes on fire and just cremated all my training axes running back and forth between weapon pile and a tree

Did your fortress get !!FUN!!inated as well?

Making a fortress for the first time in a while, so I'm re-learning how much FUN can be had.

First bit of FUN involved waterfalls and pressure:  I naively channeled moat around my fortress including a waterfall but not accounting for the water shooting out from the edge of the cliff at all.  Commence world flood.  Also, an unlucky dwarf was downhill and he didn't survive his fall.

Second bit of FUN.  I try to fix this in the winter when the moat froze over.  First I successfully dammed the moat upstream of the waterfall.  But some of the moat later on is underground b/c I haven't bothered to carve the entire facade of my fortress yet (cliffside mega project upcoming).  I could have safely waited for spring thaw, but instead I send my miners to dig away the moat and give the water somewhere to drain.  Miners are outside in the cold, digging away the wall that holds the moat water in....  Two points if you know what happened next.

So when the ice thaws do I get my miners' bodies & picks back or are they ice-atom-smashed into oblivion?

I think you get their posessions as well as skeletons, or maybe just metals... I dunno, check it when you dig them out.

[Wiro]

I dug all the way across the map to get rid of the goblins there that just didn't want to go away (and I have no functioning military). When I had everything set up and got ready to open the trap, they were gone. 

[UnrealJake]

I had set up a nice new fort, and started on Embark with a marksdwarf so I could get some hunting done. A season or two later and this guy has a huge number of kills, and is very nearly a master. I caught a Kobold theif at my entrance so I drafted him, he was indeed an archer and I checked he still had bolts on him [He had plenty] and gave him the kill order.

I watched as he charged the Kobold, and ran right into his dagger. He impaled himself on it and chopped up his own lung.

[proxn_punkd]

On the artifact side, my recently-possessed leatherworker just made a leather piccolo. As in, a literal skin flute. *facepalm*

Edit: checking the name, it is called "Calmbit"

I got one of those, too. It's called "Glistenmetal". Couldn't be more ironic if it tried.

[Kraz123]

I just realized that for the last three or so years I've been hitting "o" instead of "t" when trading.  So many rough and cut gems... gone...

[Deviled]

I just recently found out lime stone is a flux stone.

[frozen]

I just recently found out lime stone is a flux stone.

I hear you on this one.
I have to keep referencing the wiki to remember which ones flux are and aren't.  But i try to do that on embark now so I pick a location that definitely has some.