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[person012345]

Break into caverns
Set up mining operation for slate
Flying forgotten beast appears
Keep civilians out
Forget about beast
Send civilians in
Civilians get slaughtered horribly
Tantrum spiral

The worst thing was, as soon as my military arrived they dispatched it no problem. It tried to bite them, got deflected by their armour, they stabbed it in the lung and chopped off it's head. That was a pretty badass military. 2 spearmen and 2 axemen, took out about 3 forgotten beasts/titans without even breaking a sweat. To be fair, one of those was made of snow, so all that required was a single punch and it disintegrated into a puddle of water, but the other two were fairly menacing. But still, fortress ended in a nasty tantrum spiral. Ironically it was finished off by the berserking captain of the guard (those 4 dwarfs in the guard were my entire military at the time).

[HavingPhun]

I had just started a embark and it was wierd because when I first opened the embark map I was right on the kind of place I wanted to start in. But anyways I had a quantum garbage dump to clean up the stone to make room for stockpiles and rooms and i put stairs on it so if someone fell in they could walk out. Somehow my ranger ended up in there and people dropped stones on him. He died of dehydration, even though I had the fresh water marked for the morons.

[Frontestro]

I had just started a embark and it was wierd because when I first opened the embark map I was right on the kind of place I wanted to start in. But anyways I had a quantum garbage dump to clean up the stone to make room for stockpiles and rooms and i put stairs on it so if someone fell in they could walk out. Somehow my ranger ended up in there and people dropped stones on him. He died of dehydration, even though I had the fresh water marked for the morons.

Fresh water!? No wonder he died of thirst.

[misko27]

Fresh water!? No wonder he died of thirst.

the dwarves will always choose water over death. Despite popular belief, Dwarves dont wish to die, their just incredibly bad at not doing so. I've seen a determined dwarf desperately try to outrun a squad of gobbos. He didn't make it, but I sure enjoyed the show. There are legends of dwarves hiding from horrifying things, the end of headshoots proves that.

[Snaake]

Break into caverns
Set up mining operation for slate
...

Just out of curiousity: why were you mining for slate?

[Shininglight]

Every time for the last 27 worlds i've generated. not once NOT ONCE have i gotten flux without an aquifer.... argh. Of course my attempts to work through the aquifers result in this as well. I've read all the wiki articles.... still can't get through an aquifer.

[Frontestro]

Every time for the last 27 worlds i've generated. not once NOT ONCE have i gotten flux without an aquifer.... argh. Of course my attempts to work through the aquifers result in this as well. I've read all the wiki articles.... still can't get through an aquifer.

Use the specific search to narrow it down. Clay never holds aquifers so if I don't want to contend with that I just put Clay:Yes Flux:Yes Shallow Metals. Etc. Unless You mean that even with the search you don't have any then that is just horrible luck....

[BinaryBeast1010011010]

Since I discovered quantum menace two slits method I never embarked without an aquifer. It took me a few shots and I am not wiser than anyone here but ever since I have enjoyed
 an infinite supply of water  easy waterfalls everywhere, underground crops wherever I wanted them, and many more wondrous things!
And not to derail the thread, among those things : dead cats preventing the closure of the well floodgate and flooding the dining room. Curse them! Things went even worst when the dwarf adopted by said cat started tantruming.

[Joben]

A goblin siege catches me with my pants down. Long story short, ~200 casualties later I'm down to 42 dwarves huddled in a basement. Blood EVERYWHERE. And apprently only two enemies left on the map

One soldier left.

I order him to kill a goblin that's decided to hide in a corner. ...nothing happens.

Turns out he is inside one of my cage traps at the main entrance. what the i don't even...I check his thoughts.

Unib Sazirsakrith has been quite content lately. He has complained of thirst lately. He has been tired lately. He has lost a spouse to tragedy recently. He admired a fine Trap lately. He dined in a legendary dinging room recently. He recieved water recently. He slept in a very good bedroom recently. He gave someone water lately. He is depressed about being confined. He sustained major injuries recently.

Go figure and facepalm!

[crazysheep]

... He admired a fine Trap lately. ... He is depressed about being confined. [/size]

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Unib: Ow why is my head spinning and why is there so much blood all over me? *twinges in pain* Wow this is a really lovely *Cage* I'm in.. why am I caged again?

[Snateraar]

I put a mason on repeat making stone chairs. I went on playing and forgot about it. Suddenly I notice all my furniture stockpiles littered with chairs, even some made out of the precious marble(don't have any flux except that) and I found out he made about 172 stone chairs 

[Hanslanda]

Hehehe, you've encountered the Mug Tipping point. A job on repeat is useful and productive until your (crafter) hits legendary, and then the production speed is ridiculous. With such a high production speed, even a short amount of time not paying attention results in hideous amounts of whatever selected object is being created. Weaponizable amounts.

[Splint]

Dear god, the Spearbreakers manufacturing curse is spreading....

[krenshala]

Decided to try the "bring ore and fuel instead of finished products" embark strategy to see how well I'd do with it.

Embarked in a decent spot, looked around, assigned a few missing labors, then unpaused so they could get to work.

Only to have an alligator leap out, maul a llama's head (still wounded a year later), try to rip of the left foot of one of the two Farmers, and killed one of my two female dogs before I was able to punch it to death with six dwarves (and two dogs chewing on it).  All on the 1st of Granite.

A normal embark, I would have had four weapons to use on it.  Instead, I have to resort to an unarmed mob to try and bring it down.  I've no idea how I managed to get away with so few injuries.

[Snaake]

Decided to try the "bring ore and fuel instead of finished products" embark strategy to see how well I'd do with it.

Embarked in a decent spot, looked around, assigned a few missing labors, then unpaused so they could get to work.

Only to have an alligator leap out, maul a llama's head (still wounded a year later), try to rip of the left foot of one of the two Farmers, and killed one of my two female dogs before I was able to punch it to death with six dwarves (and two dogs chewing on it).  All on the 1st of Granite.

A normal embark, I would have had four weapons to use on it.  Instead, I have to resort to an unarmed mob to try and bring it down.  I've no idea how I managed to get away with so few injuries.

Sure, blame it on the lack of weapons. I remember a guy complaining that he had an alligator kill multiple embarks/reclaims worth of dwarves (and he bought 2-4 armed ones each time, I think).