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[Niccolo]

At any rate, pastures beat pits in that cats don't feel compelled to escape them en masse at the first opportunity.

However, pits quite nicely hold magma without it filling your entire fortress with fire.

[dei]

My most recent facepalm moment was not realizing after two years of playing Dwarf Fortress and reading the trap design article a couple dozen times that stone-fall, weapon, and cage traps do not need to be hooked up to levers or pressure plates. While writing this post I made sure to double-check the same line of text five times.

I think it's because I'm blonde.

Also.

At any rate, pastures beat pits in that cats don't feel compelled to escape them en masse at the first opportunity.

However, pits quite nicely hold magma without it filling your entire fortress with fire.

1.Dig pit.
2.Designate pasture in pit.
3. ?­?­?­?
4. PROFIT!

[TomTheDwarf]

when i found out that without water and/or beer, dwarves die. en mass. (this happened on my first fortress)

[JasonMel]

Took me a while to realize that my first mayor was not demanding that the fortress produce a billion items.

"WTF? How in the hell...? This game is insane. (Time passes...) Wait, is that a typo?" *Googles it* ... *FACEPALM*

[FrisianDude]

God DAMN Giant Capybaras are bitches. They lob off limbs as if it's no trouble. Hunters have no problem with them but a squad of marksdwarfs loses hands, feet and even entire arms. Even the very first military engagement in this fortress cost my Militia Commander her foot. (And she is now legendary crutchwalker.) Absolutely ridiculous. Oddly enough however, I've yet to lose a single Dwarf. Even to bleeding. But I imagine losing an entire arm causes more bleeding then losing the hand.

[BornInATrailer]

The years that my unconscious mechanic languished in bed (in his bedroom) being fed and watered but never with a diagnosis and never taken to the nicely appointed hospital.. before I looked up how to fix that and simply deconstructed the bed.  Duh.

And then how, "armed" with this new knowledge, I did the same thing to an injured hammerdorf twice in a row.  Only after he succumbed to his wounds did I realize that one of the draw bridges linking the trap hall/barracks/emergency food & drink with the rest of the fortress was up.  That was probably a confusing and awful way to go.  Time to put away my pig tail cloth jump to conclusions mat.

[PwndJa]

Built a cave-in trap near the entrance to my fort consisting of 10-15 single tiles that could fall independantly of eachother. When the time came I sent Urist McRecentlyImmigratedWithNoSkills to one of the many pressure plates. The single tile then fell 8 z-levels through my fort and landed on my "Dungeon Master" who was sleeping in his bed. I laughed so hard I had to order the kill everything lever pulled and the fortress was promptly encased in obsidian.

[acetech09]

As a dwarven caravan arrives, a Giantess also arrives. First I thought it the notify was for a titan... but sighed a relief when I saw it was only a giantess, but it did happen to spawn right next to the caravan. I thought it would make quick work of the caravan and then proceed into my fort, which at this point does not have any armored military (manager's queue has sets of iron weapons down the line a bit), so I started to gear up the best army I could.

I went up to the surface again to see how badly the caravan was doing... but the giant was DEAD! It got killed in a 1on1 against a elite wrestler with the caravan...

[FrisianDude]

Spring, so my river thawed. The Dwarfs walking on it fell in. Two adults. One of them was a mother and she was so thirsty from her wild-water adventure that she went for some booze instead of, you know, grabbing her baby. The baby drowned, the two adults got out because I had dug an extra staircase (and opened up some floodgates but they didn't swim there.

[Vehudur]

I just accidentally mined the wrong tile in a vein of a certain awesome metal we all know...  tapping through the side into the magma sea.

Oops.

It didn't go well with three legendary miners in there.

[Jakob]

I hit damp stone while starting a fortress and had my miners dig a channel to dig the ponds into a chasm.
After a hour they finally did it and I notice all of my dwarfs are suddenly dying.
After some investigation I realized they are all trying to drink water and are falling in the channel some how and landing five hundred feet in my carp filled river.

[MaximumZero]

So, I'm merrily starting a fort, and I get to the point where my first caravan shows up. Early autumn, all of the water on the map froze. All of the sudden, 12 dwarves die of thirst.

I forgot to set up a still. *facepalm*

The spiral didn't even get a chance to start before everyone died. Caravan brought barrels of blood, but no booze. *facepalm again*

[FuzzyZergling]

Tiny facepalm.
Brought a woodcutter dwarf to an embark with no trees.

[WhiteSpear]

First time poster, here!
Just spent a long time setting up a new embark, carefully deciding every minute detail, and lovingly naming my dwarves. I had the perfect place lined up. Once I was satisfied, I hit "embark!"

Within 12 seconds, 2 of my dwarves were dead, and a 3rd was running for his little bearded life. A friendly alligator had popped out of the river to say hello.
I facepalmed, then told the rest of my dwarves to haul the bloody limbs away from the wagon.

[MaximumZero]

First time poster, here!
Just spent a long time setting up a new embark, carefully deciding every minute detail, and lovingly naming my dwarves. I had the perfect place lined up. Once I was satisfied, I hit "embark!"

Within 12 seconds, 2 of my dwarves were dead, and a 3rd was running for his little bearded life. A friendly alligator had popped out of the river to say hello.
I facepalmed, then told the rest of my dwarves to haul the bloody limbs away from the wagon.

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