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[Scruffy]

Once again I had an obsidian casting project with unforeseen consequinces. I tried to slowly fill a candy tube with obsidian but forgot that the clowns evaporate the water a bit too fast for it to work. Instead of a tube full of obsidian I ended up with a tube full of magma, clowns and steam. Atleast the darn thing found another place to make obsidian. Straight on the top of my floorgrate that sealed the tube. Naturally this led to both the magma and water flooding and I had build my floodgates too far away. It turned out that I had also forgotten to link one of my magma floodgates. Some leakake followed. Naturally the water also found another direction to go. Up. I had forgotten an old temporary passage above the water pipe. My candy is now 7 levels under water.

I ended up with my candy mines being flooded by BOTH magma and water (and a few idiotic decisions later, infested by clowns.)
Edit: Did I mention that the part flooded with magma included barracks with my best soldiers? (wanted them close incase something went wrong)

[BinaryBeast1010011010]

it nearly happened to me... But just before doing it Idecided to rework it all to make a checkerboard instead...

[arzzult]

Once again I had an obsidian casting project with unforeseen consequinces. I tried to slowly fill a candy tube with obsidian but forgot that the clowns evaporate the water a bit too fast for it to work. Instead of a tube full of obsidian I ended up with a tube full of magma, clowns and steam. Atleast the darn thing found another place to make obsidian. Straight on the top of my floorgrate that sealed the tube. Naturally this led to both the magma and water flooding and I had build my floodgates too far away. It turned out that I had also forgotten to link one of my magma floodgates. Some leakake followed. Naturally the water also found another direction to go. Up. I had forgotten an old temporary passage above the water pipe. My candy is now 7 levels under water.

I ended up with my candy mines being flooded by BOTH magma and water (and a few idiotic decisions later, infested by clowns.)
Edit: Did I mention that the part flooded with magma included barracks with my best soldiers? (wanted them close incase something went wrong)

I have avoided many flooding and other face palms with one of the easiest things to make en masse. Doors. I put them every where.

[katwithk]

I overflowed the intake pipe to my magma cistern network from the volcano and caused a terrible wildfire. Beds are now a privilege, not a right.

[Ruhn]

So my fortress is this big 250+ dwarf beast that I'm running purely through the manager screen now.
I have made some soap in the past, and wanted more for my expanded hospital.
These messages about "not enough lye" keep comming up, so of course I submit 100's of "render fat" jobs.
Well, my friend tells me today that lye actually comes from ash/trees....?

oops....

[Berossus]

Did I mention that the part flooded with magma included barracks with my best soldiers? (wanted them close incase something went wrong)

Well, they WERE close when it went wrong, so thats a partial success...

[Hanslanda]

Did I mention that the part flooded with magma included barracks with my best soldiers? (wanted them close incase something went wrong)

Well, they WERE close when it went wrong, so thats a partial success...

Lol, I don't think the soldiers thought so.

"Sir, how do we fight ****ing MAGMA?!?"
"Uh, get a bucket, and then we'll- AAAAAIEEEEEEEE! IT BURNS!"

[pletter]

they grow up so fast!

[TheKaspa]

Set up a Track to move the rock blocks up to the surface in order to speed up the building of the Tower of Blizzard (fort name: TowerBlizzard).
Built a starting stop with autodump. Built a second starting Stop next to it without autodump. Set the hauling route to start from the second Stop and to go over the first.
Removed the first after a whole year of pushing empty minecarts.

[Findulidas]

This... ugh, just after I dug it out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemarchand%27s_box

[Snorunt30]

This... ugh, just after I dug it out

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lemarchand%27s_box

That actually fits quite well with what my world is like (take a look at the topic linked by quote in my sig  , and by that I mean perhaps as a doorway to the normal world)

[sudgy]

Well, to start, mine:
I have been building a out of the mountain wall to encircle the entrance and work for the outside needs of my dwarves. Ok, after I had built the entire wall, the second store floors, a barracks over the main gate, etc. I finally discover that, well, you can built constructions more than one tile at a time. Yes, after building a few hundred tiles with painstakingly micromanagement, I discover that I could have done that with a tenth of the work...

Well, mine I guess is that this is how I discover that you can build like this.  I've also been building tile by tile...

[TheKaspa]

Well, to start, mine:
I have been building a out of the mountain wall to encircle the entrance and work for the outside needs of my dwarves. Ok, after I had built the entire wall, the second store floors, a barracks over the main gate, etc. I finally discover that, well, you can built constructions more than one tile at a time. Yes, after building a few hundred tiles with painstakingly micromanagement, I discover that I could have done that with a tenth of the work...

Well, mine I guess is that this is how I discover that you can build like this.  I've also been building tile by tile...

Don't abuse of it. Or at least wait to build the external walls of the tower after finishing the floor, otherwise UristMcIamacompletemoron would wall himself out of reach.

[Uggh]

I just realized that you don't have to type "construct" or "make" in the job manager screen to find the proper job.

[Sutremaine]

You don't have to type whole words either.