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[Sofaspud]

When migrants arrive right when you need more bodies around, it's a good thing.

When they don't show up at your fort by the time a season has passed, when you finally realize, hey, where'd all my new dwarfs go, that's a bad thing.

When you realize it's because you forgot to bridge the river, and there's a group of starving, alcohol-less, bearded tantrums just waiting on the other side, that's facepalm-worthy.

[reality.auditor]

Fill minecart with wood. Urist McWoodsman pushes it. Kea catches minecart midway through the track and flies off with it.

Absurdity of this game amuses me.

[a_mist_wolf]

One right now:

I was digging out an area just above the magma sea for some forges and smelters. One z level above that and off to the side, I had them excavate an area for stockpiles. Once the lower level was dug,  I created a one square garbage dump in the stockpile area and mass designated all the loose stone below for dumping. Then I went back to the surface to supervise something else.

Erush Avuzedim, Thresher, has been killed by a flying object!
Sigun Itebdurad, Architect, cancels Dump Item: Unconscious

I had placed the garbage dump at the top of the ramp up, and the dwarves were carrying boulders to the top of the ramp, then turning around and hurling them into the teeth of the next fellow coming up.

*facepalm*

Final tally for about ten seconds of this activity: 2 broken arms, a bruised liver, a broken leg, and a crushed skull.

[floundericiousWA]

Final tally for about ten seconds of this activity: 2 broken arms, a bruised liver, a broken leg, and a crushed skull.

so..only one truly dangerous injury, then?  hope that liver heals!

[misko27]

Final tally for about ten seconds of this activity: 2 broken arms, a bruised liver, a broken leg, and a crushed skull.

so..only one truly dangerous injury, then?  hope that liver heals!

Its a dwarven liver. Of COURSE it will heal.

[win32anon]

"Let's rush my magma-pump no matter the costs!"

"Pff...I don't mind my dwarfs being unhappy, once I get magma I'll make them silver-gold rooms"

"Oh they are tantruming..."

"Oh they are tantrum-berserking"

"Oh they are destroying the door to the floodroom"

Flooding my fortress and killing everyone drowded or starved/thirst.

[necromancerbob]

Ohh a lepoard, go catch wild animals dwarfs....

20 seconds later

Leopard gone but i now have a captured toad. What the urst can I do with that? Bait animal??

[leafbarrett]

Telling a dwarf to go mine out a small peak of a mountain to make things look more even. (This is before I learned that doing that left a floor above, and channeling was the way to get rid of a thing like that.)

A section of the cavern has collapsed!

It was my first ever death, too.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Heh, I did that once. Bet your miner didn't end up in the magma sea, though.

[floundericiousWA]

....last night...looking forward to resuming my fort, clicking "continue playing" and selecting "nalmafol in Tethathadar, 138"...and DF crashes and burns with a "one of the compressed files is corrupted, please restore from a backup, if possible"

 

So I had to pull the same fort from the old 34.10 folder and fire it up...sigh...FIVE IN GAME YEARS gone.

[WillowLuman]

Recently lost my 18-year 31.25 fort that produced 9 artifact thongs to harddrive failure. Should have backed it up.

[Gamerboy4life]

Just got done playing for a couple hours.

Goes to menu.

Abandon Fortress.

Me: "Oh, yes, that's the save option!"

Confirm.


Fuck.

[Edmus]

Just got done playing for a couple hours.

Goes to menu.

Abandon Fortress.

Me: "Oh, yes, that's the save option!"

Confirm.


Fuck.

Should you ever do this just push the off button (not the "hold down because its broken" but the "tap so it turns off normally."), it will stop abandonment and the old save will still be there. At least last time I accidentally abandoned it worked.

[misko27]

....last night...looking forward to resuming my fort, clicking "continue playing" and selecting "nalmafol in Tethathadar, 138"...and DF crashes and burns with a "one of the compressed files is corrupted, please restore from a backup, if possible"

 

So I had to pull the same fort from the old 34.10 folder and fire it up...sigh...FIVE IN GAME YEARS gone.

Similar thing, different cause. I was doing some science on loyalty cascade (very interesting results, actually. It may, with some work, and not too many migrants, be able to create a seperatist fort, one that you control but that doesnt support the mainland and attacks traders), my fort was brought down by lack of intervention, but i forgot to save-scum. 4 GOD-DAMNED YEARS GONE. DAMN IT.

[themagicdwarf]

Bestra the Dragon invades. Bestra is captured in the cage trap. Cage is stored in the stockpile. ALL animals are selected to be taken to the Pasture.

Bestra is let from his cage and INCINERATES 40 of 65 dorfs INSTANTLY in the great hall.

Not even enough dorfs left for a proper tantrum spiral! The militia commander head shots Bestra with a crossbow then goes into melancholy when his revenge is complete and Bestra falls. Abandon Fortress... HOORAY! F'PALM

epilogue; some migrants have just arrived, despite the danger! DERP