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[Slayerhero90]

Well, now i know

The loss of my first fort ever was also self-inflicted: I was still trying to get the military working, so I relied on a bridge to seal my fortress against intruders. Only a bridge covering the 3 tiles wide entrance, no moat underneath it.
When the first ambush came , I restricted movement of all my dwarfs to the inside of my fortress, waited until the last one crossed the bridge and ordered the Lever pulled...
Which then retracted,leaving my entrance wide open. I only read about raising bridges in the wiki so far, so I didn't know they can do that. I must have somehow hit "x" while figuring out how to build the bridge. So I and my Dwarves learned the hard way...also about the advantages of internal doors, which my fortress totally lacked at this point.

They automatically start retracting. You have to tell the bridge which way to rise while making it.

[Insanity X]

I order my dwarves to start channeling a hill that's only 1 z-level high, with everything supported. One of them, the expedition leader/broker, somehow skids his head along the ground and kills himself.


Tie your shoelaces, people.

[thburns]

I hurt my palm pretty good today!
After about 8 months of playing this game... And managing stocks the long hard way. I finnaly noticed the [tab] mode button in the stocks screen.
Oh the time saver this will be!

[Scorch]

I didn't know this, but it turns out that necromancers can raise the dead who are buried in coffins.
Orbtalon fell to an undead swarm raised from its very own dead. More than four hundred undead present when my fortress finally crumbled.

[WillowLuman]

My fort just fell to retired, legendary badass adventurers who immigrated in and, incidentally, are werebeasts.

[Poncheis]

My fort just fell to retired, legendary badass adventurers who immigrated in and, incidentally, are werebeasts.

Now I learned an important lesson: NEVER retire night creatures adventurers.

[WillowLuman]

My fort just fell to retired, legendary badass adventurers who immigrated in and, incidentally, are werebeasts.

Now I learned an important lesson: NEVER retire night creatures adventurers.

Well, never retire them on sites of the civ you're going to play as at least.

[terko]

Whenever I read about 'flooded my fortress' here I snicker and think: 'What were doors invented for again?' ... and then, well, I lost my last fort to a water leak.

[Rose]

You'd be surprised how often I savescum from a flooded fort through an airlock.

[MattStriker]

Experiments with magma, part 47: Trying to build a magma forge closer to the surface I built a pump stack, following the wiki's instructions. I made sure to build the components only of magma-safe materials.

But I didn't make sure to only use magma-safe components in construction. In fact, it turns out I accidentally used a decidedly unsafe mudstone piece left over from an earlier water-pumping effort in a key location.

Which ended up killing the pump stack project...and incidentally flooding my existing deep-down magma forge when I tried to salvage the whole mess. Miraculously I lost no dorfs to the entire incident...just an extremely stupid chicken (seriously. What was that thing even doing down at the magma forge level?).

[gunpowdertea]

As a Dwarven comedian would put it:

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road go down to the magma forge?
A: To die a horrible !!Death!!

But, hey, that was close... I just got my (expected) SIEGE without preparing for it. *sigh* I guess I'll never learn. Let's see how they'll deal with it.
I could lock the fort, but what's the point... oh, actually: I dug a fast access tunnel. Forget about the "locking down". The blood! The Horror! Gotta fetch some popcorn to enjoy the show!

[Aviator CJ]

But I didn't make sure to only use magma-safe components in construction. In fact, it turns out I accidentally used a decidedly unsafe mudstone piece left over from an earlier water-pumping effort in a key location.

I've always been careful not to make this mistake - my last pump stack used only pitchblende blocks. The idea of radioactivated magma brought me much joy...

My own most recent facepalm came from marksdwarf training. I use captured necromancers to raise zombies as live targets (unlive targets?) But I forgot that my dwarfs considered the necromancer an enemy, and put about 8 iron bolts into him.

[Kpn.Kardif]

I had been quite please lately at how my goblinite separating system has been working.  Two stockpiles set up near the entrance of my fort, one for crappy metal items, the other for crappy cloth items, each set up with a minecart that dumps down a chute when full.  The chute from the crappy cloth stockpile leads to the magma sea, the chute from the metal stockpile drops into a quantum stockpile in my magma smelter complex some 120 z-levels below, where it gets melted down.  This system has been working quite splendidly for several years now, and has become quite important seeing as how the only metal ore available at Glowhalls is tetrahedrite. 

So I polished off the latest siege and was in the process of cleaning up the remains when I get a get an alert in big purple letters: Urist McFurnaceOperator has bled to death.  What?!  I zoom to the location to see my legendary furnace operator lying dead in the middle of my smelter complex.  I thought maybe an imp or something had managed to get in from the magma sea, so I checked combat logs.  The top of the list was "The furnace operator is fighting!" Hmm, probably an imp.

The flying small cobalt boot hits the furnace operator in the upper body, shattering the left true rib
The flying iron warhammer hits the furnace operator in the leg, bruising the muscle
The flying silver arrow (24) hits the furnace operator in the throat, tearing the muscle
    a major artery has been opened!

And about 20 other similar entries.  Definitely not an imp, unless it figured out how to throw random metal objects.  It took me a minute to figure out what must have happened...  He must have been at the quantum stockpile picking up an item to melt at exactly same moment that the minecart above dumped a load of fresh goblinite.  Right onto his head.  From 120+ z levels up. 

Note to self: suspend melt metal object jobs while collecting goblinite.

[MattStriker]

There's safe. Then there's unsafe. And then there's the average dwarf fort, which remains unrated because the OSHA inspector flatly refused to go anywhere within a dozen miles of the place.

[Aviator CJ]

There's safe. Then there's unsafe. And then there's the average dwarf fort, which remains unrated because the OSHA inspector flatly refused to go anywhere within a dozen miles of the place.

Sigging that.