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[Theifofdreams]

The dwarf promptly walls himself in on the side that's about to be flooded by the aquifer because I neglected using the "suspended building designation" trick, thinking he couldn't build on the wrong side due to the water flow. GUESS NOT.

What is this "suspended building designation" trick?
I forsee this saving me quite alot of trouble.

[ZeroSumHappiness]

Designate a wall to be built where you don't want your dwarves standing around.  Suspend the wall before anyone tries to go build it.  Remove the build order when you don't need it.  Dwarves prefer to stand in clear space over space designated to be walled.

[Kelroth]

One of my Axedwarves had the brilliant idea to dodge a blow while sparring into a murky pool and died. At first I was annoyed, but after seeing his smiley face while dead into the water after the stupid thing he had done made me laugh isterically. When I designed the barracks near that murky pool I thought "I don't think dwarves are too stupid to fall into there while sparring". I love how the events always prove me wrong.

[Tiruin]

One of my Axedwarves had the brilliant idea to dodge a blow while sparring into a murky pool and died. At first I was annoyed, but after seeing his smiley face while dead into the water after the stupid thing he had done made me laugh isterically. When I designed the barracks near that murky pool I thought "I don't think dwarves are too stupid to fall into there while sparring". I love how the events always prove me wrong.

I wonder if fallen dwarves can continue down in the pits...On that note, channel a ramp!
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First fortress, dug a small hole in the mount from above but figured to make a farm first after putting everyone in. Right next to a large murky pool, it flooded my people and I panicked on seeing the water. I did not know about the max H20 level for drowning and  as the deadly ~~~ covered my screen.

Then the rains came...

[Rgamer]

Realizing that the way I had it designated, a cave-in was guaranteed, severely injuring one of my miners. Now to see if he recovers.

[Devling]

Deciding to kill one of my heros, I went to a one or two height ledge and jumped. I didn't even get hurt. Twelve times later I just jumped into a pool and drowned.

[Orky_Boss]

I have decided to make my new fort convieniently in the middle of a glacier, with no natural wood, and presumably without a way to get food. (Except probably by underground farming)

So I embark with the lazynewb embark settings, and I say to myself in narrator form 'So here we are in the middle of a glacier. As you can see there's no natural wood, but I think we can deal with that...'

Then I realize I probably didn't bring and wood along, and of course, beds can only be made out of wood...

[Garath]

i found a mgma sea at z-lvl 9, but no metals. some explorative mining, more magma, no metal. ARGH

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not counting cobalt and other non-weapon metals

[imperium3]

i found a mgma sea at z-lvl 9, but no metals. some explorative mining, more magma, no metal. ARGH

edit
not counting cobalt and other non-weapon metals

With magma that easily available, it's probably all you need to defend your fort anyway. And the rest you can buy from the dwarven caravan.

[Garath]

I've had no chance, ever, of setting up a steel production! I dropped my enemies in a magma sea, crushed them with ceilings dropping on them, torn them to shreds with spinning discs, but somehow i cant equip a decent militairy

[Orky_Boss]

In addition to being unable to make a bed, I also found that I can't farm on ice...

[ArKFallen]

    Getting back to Dorf Fortress I thought, "Hey, you know what'd be an awesome place for a fort? Under a lake!" So I embark on a cold lake because it was near the only people who'd trade with my modded race, goblins. Taking into account that a fortress under a lake would have no access to trees a good portion of the year, I embarked with 32 willow logs, and an extra digging tool and hatchet (they're too small for battle axes). Wanting as big a store of wood as possible I send 3 midgets out to deforest an area near the lake and begin digging down to the fort's planned entrance.
     Everything goes well, I drop the extra hatchet in a locked ice shed for migrants, put a hatch on the entrance, and store all of our supplies
except a few logs. The place seems to be thawing so I order everyone into the mini fort and lock the hatch. My first facepalm came when I realized that my 6 rabbits are grazers and I'm not going to find grass down here. The second facepalm came soon after, 4z's down:
You have discovered an expansive cavern deep underground.
You have discovered a downward passage.
You have discovered an expansive cavern deep underground.

My first thought is: "Woops! Didn't mean to do that. But at least there's metal down here."
And then I remember that caverns have something else... trees.

[Clutzy]

Just realized I should seperate all various weapon users in squads  . Let's see if this will improve things.

[Talvieno]

The very first time I ever played, when I had no real idea what Dwarf Fortress was, I was bewildered by the ASCII and then discovered I could use "k" to look at things. "Hey look, those are dwarves around a wagon, sitting on a grassy plain surrounded by upwards slopes! It all makes sense!" So then I look around some more and figure out how to dig. "Wow, cool, I hit chrysoprase! And brown jasper! Woot! Already finding gems - I must be good at this!" So I keep digging and a little ways into the mountain I see a ton of blue 7's. I look at it with K - "wow", I think, "I'm figuring out this game so fast! I'd always heard it was too difficult to play!" - it's water. What ho, dear chaps! A lovely underground lake! Why, I think I might take a dip!
...so I dig to it. Or into it, rather... First fortress gone, just like that. Very, very rapid flash flood that drowns my dwarves.

Second fortress. I get a really good place going, get some walls up, get an underground forge with hematite. Oh, I'm brilliant and incredibly good, yes? I'm always wondering what that empty space is, though... "Is it... perhaps... the edge of the world? Have my dwarves embarked on a location truly unique and incredibly awesome?! Mayhap, dear fellows, I could use such a truly amazing feature to kill any enemies that dare attack my fortress in the clouds!!!" So I build walls to it.
Year 2, goblin ambush, 1 raiding party. They go UP the mountain (eh, WHAT?! WHERE'D THEY GO?!), over my walls (AH!!! ARE THEY FLYING?!!?), and most importantly, right up through the front gate when they're finally leaving. I pat myself on the back for my traps causing the fool goblins to fall off the edge of the world.

It wasn't til the next game that I discovered z-levels.

edit: typos.

[Orky_Boss]

The very first time I ever played, when I had no real idea what Dwarf Fortress was, I was bewildered by the ASCII and then discovered I could use "k" to look at things. "Hey look, those are dwarves around a wagon, sitting on a grassy plain surrounded by upwards slopes! It all makes sense!" So then I look around some more and figure out how to dig. "Wow, cool, I hit chrysoprase! And brown jasper! Woot! Already finding gems - I must be good at this!" So I keep digging and a little ways into the mountain I see a ton of blue 7's. I look at it with K - "wow", I think, "I'm figuring out this game so fast! I'd always heard it was too difficult to play!" - it's water. What ho, dear chaps! A lovely underground lake! Why, I think I might take a dip!
...so I dig to it. Or into it, rather... First fortress gone, just like that. Very, very rapid flash flood that drowns my dwarves.

Second fortress. I get a really good place going, get some walls up, get an underground forge with hematite. Oh, I'm brilliant and incredibly good, yes? I'm always wondering what that empty space is, though... "Is it... perhaps... the edge of the world? Have my dwarves embarked on a location truly unique and incredibly awesome?! Mayhap, dear fellows, I could use such a truly amazing feature to kill any enemies that dare attack my fortress in the clouds!!!" So I build walls to it.
Year 2, goblin ambush, 1 raiding party. They go UP the mountain (eh, WHAT?! WHERE'D THEY GO?!), over my walls (AH!!! ARE THEY FLYING?!!?), and most importantly, right up through the front gate when they're finally leaving. I pat myself on the back for my traps causing the fool goblins to fall off the edge of the world.

It wasn't til the next game that I discovered z-levels.

edit: typos.

I'm glad I didn't go through that mess. I also was struck by the ASCII, and I ended up abandoning multiple fortresses, partially because I never knew what to do, and also because I didn't know save game also brought you to the main menu, so I thought abandoning the fort was the only way to get out of the game.

Then I found a 'hands on' learning thing, and I quickly learned the basics of the game, such as making a farm plot, making a place for workshops, having a dining room, having a bedroom area, and much more (The pump thing at the end skewed my mind, and I ended up skipping it. I first wished I didn't when I needed to use the magma sea I found to evaporate a cavern filled with water. Unfortunatly I learned the hard way what 'the circus' and 'clowns' area before I learned (and make use of) a thing I found on the wiki called a 'pump stack'.

Now I play with the mayday graphic tileset, although I'm considering doing some forts in ASCII to see what everything looks like in the 'defult' form.