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[Gizogin]

I decided it was time to streamline my smelters.  Because they're more than 100 z-levels below the rest of my fortress, I dug a shaft straight down and set up a minecart system to move stones and ores to the smelters more quickly.  Then, because I'm an idiot, I activated the hauling route without putting in any sort of retarding mechanism for the falling stone.  Two miners and a jeweler had their skulls smashed in before I got it fixed.

[Dr_Nocturne]

I've made a world where dwarves are extinct, humans are scattered, and elves just fine... May have added too many Beast, and Titans to that world...

But if the dwarves existed at one point, then it's still possible to embark... ACCEPT CHALLENGE?

Nope, it just leads to adventure mode, where I can choose an elf from one of two civilizations or a human outsider... With the amount of monsters roaming about I don't think I would live long... I'll just look at the legends to see what happened...

[WillowLuman]

I've made a world where dwarves are extinct, humans are scattered, and elves just fine... May have added too many Beast, and Titans to that world...

But if the dwarves existed at one point, then it's still possible to embark... ACCEPT CHALLENGE?

Nope, it just leads to adventure mode, where I can choose an elf from one of two civilizations or a human outsider... With the amount of monsters roaming about I don't think I would live long... I'll just look at the legends to see what happened...

Again, if they existed at one point, it should be possible to play as them. Maybe they just didn't spawn at all.

[MrSparky]

Pulled lever to open the doors to the aquifer powering the waterwheels.
See flooding in the mines
Trace flooding to the lack of a door on the access point to the spillway basin
Pull lever to close doors to aquifer
See that flooding is not ceasing
Find rock that got flushed out from one of the aquifer channels and is holding open one of the doors to the aquifer.

Sigh and prepare to install door to spillway basin against current

[Xaioxaiofan]

I've made a world where dwarves are extinct, humans are scattered, and elves just fine... May have added too many Beast, and Titans to that world...

But if the dwarves existed at one point, then it's still possible to embark... ACCEPT CHALLENGE?

Weird, I can play as humans if there isn't dwarves in the world. 
Nope, it just leads to adventure mode, where I can choose an elf from one of two civilizations or a human outsider... With the amount of monsters roaming about I don't think I would live long... I'll just look at the legends to see what happened...

Again, if they existed at one point, it should be possible to play as them. Maybe they just didn't spawn at all.

Odd, I can play as humans when there's no dwarves.

[rellik242]

Just did the durpiest thing ever, and I thought you would all like to know. It's worth mentioning before I begin that I didn't actually facepalm, I just burst into laughter and my own stupidity.

So, I'm setting up a new embark profile, and I did my usual 2miners, 1 wood cutter, 1 carpenter, 1 mason, and 2 food people. Now, whenever I set up items, I always delete everything, and then pick what I want from scratch (To be the most efficient with my points) And this, is where I had my durp. I went to put in 1 axe, and 2 pick axes for my Miners and Woodcutter. However, for some reason, I did the exact opposite. And I did not notice this until I embarked, and noticed my second miner wasn't doing anything. At which point I came to realize I goofed, and started laughing at myself.

Hope someone gets a good laugh outta that. C'ya next time I mess up!

[Sutremaine]

I've had brain farts like that. Embark dwarf likes steel or bronze? Great, they can make good weapons and armour early. Unfortunately, Weaponsmith and Armoursmith are not next to each other on the list, but Weaponsmith and Metalsmith are...

[Morgorin]

Well this is a new one for me...

I built a moat out of a river, built a bridge across it and everything.  I had a kobold ambush that was quelched rather quickly, except for one problem: two kobolds went into the moat which actually flows into my fortress via a multiple z-level waterfall.  Apparently, kobolds can swim and they jumped out of the moat and began attacking everything; somehow they didn't die after that fall.  They were put down, but I decided this should not happen again.  I designated a wall to be built on the outside of the moat.  Suddenly, a farmer was discovered drowned!  I zoomed to where he was, and there, at the bottom of the falls, lay no fewer than 4 drowned dwarves (along with 6 dead kobolds, I have no idea where they came from).  Apparently, instead of crossing the bridge like a civilized people, the dorfs were attempting to swim across the quickest, deepest part of the river, right before the falls.  Like savage, stupid beasts.  -_-  Memorial slabs are on their way.

[GuesssWho]

Found a demon fort for the first time ever. Try to dig around it. 251 undead have now swarmed my fortress.

ETA: New fort. I strike the earth, start digging out farms--and underground trees start growing there before they can be built. WTF?

[weenog]

New fort. I strike the earth, start digging out farms--and underground trees start growing there before they can be built. WTF?

If you've ever breached a cavern and let the subterranean plant spores out, all sites that connect to the same cavern will be spored, whether or not you breach the cavern in the new site(s).

[GuesssWho]

Weird. And slightly annoying.

[MrSparky]

I can't remember doing this last night but I can clearly see that I did.

I ordered a pumpstack dug out. my designating was well done, it's accessible via ramps all the way down. There is supposed to be magma. I specified that I wanted magma in worldgen. I dug down to the bottom. There is no fricking magma. How can I do obsidian casting with no magma?
Missed the edge of the magma sea by 1 tile.

In the process the cavern was breached. There is a blind cave ogre hassling my dwarves. I have no military. I have assigned my hunters and prospective hunters as a marksdwarf squad This is going to be FUN.

[Shash The Stampede]

Last fort my front gate wouldn't close properly so a siege got in. Entire military got mangled. Panicked and figured I was doomed so I attempted to flood my fort with the ocean. Was expecting a deluge but it just kind of trickled in. Invaders ran down a level, straight into the animal pens and were spiritedly gnawed by various creatures. The siege now broken I figured I could drain the water into the caverns as a short term solution until I got things walled off. Reopened the caverns, forgetting why I'd closed them in the first place.

Cue FBs. A skinless moose with boiling spittle. And a gaunt coke fiend with poisonous vapors named Gradus. Horror/hilarity ensued.  Animals got killed by Gradus but they managed to take him out in the end. Skinless Bullwinkle rampaged for a bit then I abandoned since this was just the latest in a string of horrors that befell Charmedwires and immigration wasn't replacing the losses fast enough.

[Explode_Toad]

Only have recently (as in the last 2 weeks) realized that you can build up/down stairs instead of trying to tunnel down using upward ramps...

-)-
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[Catsup]

i had very bad timing giving my dwarves jobs, and i accidentally gave some dwarves the job to clean out one of my pits by unforbidding the items in them. I was butchering a few corpses at the time too, one of which was a forgotten beast corpse. I ended up wasting around 250 units of meat with one 209 stack due to it all going rotten cuz everyone was too busy to haul it >.<

edit: wait nvm...turns out i forgot to link the butcher shops to my main stockpile (i had to rebuild them to reposition them for a new staircase.