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[TolyK]

nope.

in other news I channeled a moat and filled it with water (well murky pools, so I got 2/7 about everywhere).
It rains and gets it all to 4/7. Then winter. Gobbo ambush, no longrangers, NANANANANA YOU CAN'T GET ME!
...
the moat freezes.

'nuff said.
KIDS, DONT FILL YOUR MOATS!

[Qinetix]

nope.

in other news I channeled a moat and filled it with water (well murky pools, so I got 2/7 about everywhere).
It rains and gets it all to 4/7. Then winter. Gobbo ambush, no longrangers, NANANANANA YOU CAN'T GET ME!
...
the moat freezes.

'nuff said.
KIDS, DONT FILL YOUR MOATS!

Temperature off? or get into a warm region next tiem for yer moat to be thaw all year

Crap Im full of fail's
I flooded the room that was supposed to be a underground farm , but well THAT DAMNED MINER DIDNT WANT TO PULL THE LEVER (yes i enabled his labor for that)
Good thing i had a save , i was able to channel it instead with the floodgate leading to the exit closed , and then i made some extra place (ye ye , the flood source was ofc for me a river , if it was a murky pool i wouldnt even bother building flood gates

There's a labor for lever pulling?
I don't think so...

Pfff , I think it has to do something with the Mechanics labor

[scout890]

KIDS, DONT FILL YOUR MOATS WITH WATER!

Fix'd

[CapnUrist]

Crap Im full of fail's
I flooded the room that was supposed to be a underground farm , but well THAT DAMNED MINER DIDNT WANT TO PULL THE LEVER (yes i enabled his labor for that)
Good thing i had a save , i was able to channel it instead with the floodgate leading to the exit closed , and then i made some extra place (ye ye , the flood source was ofc for me a river , if it was a murky pool i wouldnt even bother building flood gates

There's a labor for lever pulling?
I don't think so...

Pfff , I think it has to do something with the Mechanics labor
[/quote]

Mechanics is for creating and linking levers. Pulling them requires no labors; thus why it's the preferred method for putting/keeping nobles in a specific spot.

[TolyK]

nope.

in other news I channeled a moat and filled it with water (well murky pools, so I got 2/7 about everywhere).
It rains and gets it all to 4/7. Then winter. Gobbo ambush, no longrangers, NANANANANA YOU CAN'T GET ME!
...
the moat freezes.

'nuff said.
KIDS, DONT FILL YOUR MOATS WITH WATER!

Temperature off? or get into a warm region next tiem for yer moat to be thaw all year

I know, I was trying  to do a "no cheating" fort with human-middle ages-style defence. I actually chose a warm biome, but it froze anyway (well right next to me was temperate, so I guess even warm can freeze) for about 1 week.

Pfff , I think it has to do something with the Mechanics labor

no, any old dwarf can pull a lever.

[FrisianDude]

Surely you also built a wall behind the moat? :/

[TolyK]

it was half done 
my fort value skyrocketed and I got ambushed within a year 

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what's funny is that a kobold found them for me... along with a piece of clothing that folks left outside. I actually had 89 dwarves and an mayor, wonder why they didn't siege me (could be value)

oh, and after about a month a hydra came in and mopped them all up. joy!
and I got sieged after tearing down walls. and my 2 survivors got killed my a kobold and goblin snatcher.

that was the most !!FUN!! I've had in a while...

[FrisianDude]

Ah. Whoops.

Damn, a pack of Rhesus Macaques stole pretty much the entire gear my hunter started with but dropped because I told him not to hunt for now. Goddammit, I prefer wolves over those little thieving assholes.


Heh, damn. Some trees made a mockery of my plan to dig a moat by standing in the way. I had them chopped and thought I could just dig away the tiles they were on. Went okay once, but the second (or maybe first. Was practically at the same time) it knocked the miner out cold. Luckily she was NOT wounded at all. Just unconscious for a minute.

Dammit, I'll teach you yet, Nature! Dwarfs rule this area now!

[ext0l]

Built a trade depot out of ice.
It melted. 

[Lord Shonus]

That happened to me once. That site melted only one week in spring.

[Starmantle]

My brilliant defense that relied on choke-points at bridges... and then winter came and the rivers froze just as some nasties were coming.

Ug. 

[Jachim]

Decided to give my entire fortress a mass bathing to berid of the pages and pages of blood.


Apparently some forgotten beast had got a bit of blood on one of my dwarves armor.

20 rotten limbs and 5 dead children and 3-4 dead cats and dogs and it's all good. *facepalm* The miasma alone almost sent my fort into a spiral, the deaths thankfully didn't.

[Musashi]

The king just arrived, and he died of old age the instant he stumbled upon the map.
*burrows face in hands in shaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaame*

EDIT: at least, his consort has arrived. She's 164, so she's gonna kick the bucket soon. At least, she's a competent fighter, has already killed 5 goblins, and has 10 children(!!!). But she has no... err.. preference. She doesn't seem to like any metal, stone, animal, material, product, food, etc.. whatsoever. Perfect mayor?

OH AND THE MIGRANTS ARE LEGENDARY WARRIORS.
But no king. Dammit!

[EmeraldWind]

Got siege.  I set my alerts and figured I'd be safe, but then:

Urist McStupid has died. Urist McDummy has died. ETC. about 5 or six more and a couple animals.

What?  I look and a bunch of dwarves are just hanging out at the outdoor statue garden. The alert should have stopped that, but here I stand holding my face to my hand.

[Cassicotca]

Discovering the reason to build fortifications at floodgates. Having a troll kick in your floodgate and making your fortress a massive indoor lake is a good way to learn it.