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[JTH]

As i was progressing wonderfully through my cave challenge fort, a very mean little forgotten beast showed up. I did not know that they exist on the first cavern level.

*snip*

Boy was i wrong.

Were you using the new Mars world generation?

Nope, dont even know what your talking about  . i am using the Dig Deeper GOLD mod though

It was a joke. Since the floor is all red (from dwarf blood I presume) and Mars has a similarly red surface, he made the connection. I laughed.

[dr_random]

>.>
Stone pots need stonecrafters, not masons.

Dehydrated dwarves will drink booze, but it takes them a long time to drink from a barrel and if everybody's thirsty you need enough for the whole fortress. Next time, make waterskins and put everyone in a squad. Refilling a waterskin takes a few ticks and not a few days like drinking from a barrel, and they'll fill up on water if there isn't enough booze.

Doh, I wondered what took the thirsty dwarfs of mine to drink that time. This is a nice advice to go for those tight booze situations.

[Sutremaine]

There is one caveat with waterskins though -- a dwarf will take three units when refilling the waterskin. If you're starting with a bunch of thirsty dwarves with waterskins and no water to tide them over, two units per dwarf are going to be taken out of circulation. This doesn't really matter initially. If you don't have enough booze to satisfy a bunch of dwarves with waterskins, then you won't have enough barrels to satisfy a bunch of dwarves without waterskins (unless all your barrels have five units of booze in them when they come out of the still, maybe). Once everybody is carrying booze, however, the status screen ceases to be an accurate measure of how much drink is available.

Running out of barrelled booze won't kill anyone if there's water available, but three drinks of water is enough to make a dwarf start suffering from sobriety. Still, it's worth it to have a 90-dwarf fortress go from roughly a dozen drinkers at a time to one or two.

[Mister Dirks]

It was a joke. Since the floor is all red (from dwarf blood I presume) and Mars has a similarly red surface, he made the connection. I laughed.

Oh i see, now i feel stupid :/

[Crazy Cow]

Hey, guys. You know those military-based forts that never got attacked and therefore got abandoned year two-ish? Well, I decided to make a megaproject, and I went to turn off invasions in my init folder so I could make it in peace.
Yeah, you can guess what happened next.
*facedesk*

[Aatch]

When I first started: not realising that one needs to build both down and up stairs, then trapping a miner in hole with no idea how to get him back <.<

[RTiger]

Every fort that I build I build with Defenses in mind, namely traps. So the game goes on, anyone that comes even close to my fort needing to go through roughly 1000 attacks from my traps, and not dodge off the very narrow platform only to fall to your doom. Dozens of goblins, an ettin or two, all fell to the large number of traps. I also sealed off the caverns so I wouldn't have to worry about FB and other nasties from below. Needless to say, I was more then a bit lax about my military.

Then the megabeast came. *Facepalm*

[adasdad]

dimple cups dont give food, booze, or clothing.

[Lezard]

Finding out that dimple cups don't provide booze or food from a Face Palm thread...

[Mobotium]

Having planted dimple cups every possible time for some 15 fortresses withouth realizing they dont give booze or food. And then finding out from a facepallm thread...

[Samrobot]

^ Absolutely hilarious.

[zwei]

Yeah, I usually go for "make 3x3 plot for everything, plant everything" ... then find out that my plant stockpiles were taken over by Dimple Cups, Blade Weeds and Hide Roots after few years.

Then it is time to start milling/dyeing operation.

[lanceleoghauni]

Building a Convoluted and perfect water system to channel and cleanse the water of toxins should it become contaminated, only to discover my "Aquifer" was the tile under a pond.

[ctone]

Finding out that bridges can be raised and not just retracted. This killed 2 of my forts before I found out.

[jc6036]

Finding out that drawbridges break when trying to crush a squad of mounted sieger.