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[Deathworks]

Hello!

There was a big face palm for me today when I noticed that trousers and loincloths were listed in the trading list much, much later than all the other clothes. All the time, I thought the traders didn't bring any, while I simply did not look in the right place (the goods surrounding them are of no interest for me at the moment) (T_T).

Yours,
Deathworks

[Graf Zeppelin]

One of my hunters was naked except for a tiger leather quiver.......he was not even unhappy. >>

[Shoruke]

I felt like starting a fortress in one of them fancy-shmancy evil biomes where it's also cold as Northern Canada. Which is to say, damn cold, and perpetually covered in snow.

The birds, I could deal with.
The skeletons too, natch.
Even the stuff from underground... olms, trolls, rutherers, etc. Forgotten Beasts with paralyzing extract? Set up a cordon, no further problems.

BUT THE RAIN. It wasn't even the actual effects of the rain. Oh noez, everyone outside gets briefly dizzy, whatever shall I do. Answer: ignore it like a boss.
No, I ended up abandoning that fort because I got sick and tired off the fact that the whole map looked like it was perpetually covered in urine. If the dizzy rain had been literally any other colour... 

[Larix]

I had tried an embark in an evilish savanna once. As soon as we arrived, it started to rain acrid muck and all pools dried out. The muck, like above, only caused a bit of dizziness, but being unfamiliar with evil biomes at the time, i quickly got sick of it and scrapped the fort. Then i embarked in a tundra/frozen ocean, with lots of minerals (apart from iron, of course) ...
and got some migrants. From the mucky savanna fort. That had carefully avoided washing on their travels and promptly brought some of the muck to the new fort. And since it's permanently frozen, dwarfs won't clean outside and contaminants are buggy and eternally spread, the stuff slowly spread, until after a few years, several hundred tiles of surface were piss-yellow. Building kennels and demolishing them helped keep the stuff out of the main area, but there was no getting rid of it, ever.

[r4NGe]

30 z dodge pit is a smashing success. Who knew if you add a butcher shop at the bottom, they mop up the corpse, chop it up and whip up some delicious pretzels, chips, and bruschetta from it. [Masterwork].

[AutomatedGoldfish]

Hm, this isn't a major facepalm moment. When I started playing DF I had setup a nice enough looking area, about 2 hours in. So, after a while, I tried mining, I went to the mining designation and it wouldn't work. I though it was something wrong with the save, so I deleted my world entirely. It turns out that I was hitting space other than enter. . . . 

[3iff]

I was going to make a comment that in the 4 years of this new fortress I haven't had ANY dwarf attempts at making an artifact...but checking the wiki, I've probably turned artifacts OFF.

Actually, Artifacts were ON, so I went 4 years with no attempts at artifact building. I did only have 14 very busy dwarfs though. Once the numbers got bounced to 25 then strange moods started, two so far.

[Tinyheavyistiny]

I didn't know about dumping objects so I thought that you had to dig out an area to store the stone in, so I was creating these massive underground stockpiles for stone. I felt so stupid when I learned how to dump things, now stone management is a breeze.

[Rockphed]

I was going to make a comment that in the 4 years of this new fortress I haven't had ANY dwarf attempts at making an artifact...but checking the wiki, I've probably turned artifacts OFF.

Actually, Artifacts were ON, so I went 4 years with no attempts at artifact building. I did only have 14 very busy dwarfs though. Once the numbers got bounced to 25 then strange moods started, two so far.

Dwarves do not produce artifacts until there are at least 20 dwarves.

[Solon64]

"Farmworker has been missing for a week!"

Mind you, I had two farmworkers, my fort is rather smallish at the moment (though I have big plans for it!), and no combat logs.  I searched the entire fort twice over, even looked in the river, no dice.  I then had a strange foul suspicion, so I went up a z-level and yup, there he is.  On top of a wall with no access to it, and he doesn't have wings either.  I imagine he dehydrated, which must have been doubly depressing since said wall was immediately adjacent to a stream full of nice, clear, refreshing water.

Serves the idiot right. *facepalm*

[Ieb]

I'm mining a huge underground hollow where the only things in the end will be the tower structures my dorfs live and work in. I'm going to fill up the entire hollow in magma at the end, which my dorfs can admire behind the gem windows I plan to have everywhere.

So far, I've had 2 miners die during the ramp-digging. One legendary, another decent miner. Both died from walking on a tile that was then dug from below them, and they bumped their head, bruising the brain.

Damn it.

EDIT: Now up to 3 fucking idiots who fell over their beards and bashed their skulls open, splattering their brains all over the rock floor. Voidstone has also claimed 2 miners, and a vampire ate up another, so my previously 20-strong minerforce is slowly but surely being used up. At least there will be kids growing up in a few years so there's a workforce, should the project take that long to finish mining.

[kilozombie]

Somebody said earlier that blocks were more efficient for building, because they gave more.

Then somebody else called them out because it wasn't true. Double facepalm, right?

I just tested it and each rock gives 4 blocks in a Mason's Workshop.

[MrSparky]

Somebody said earlier that blocks were more efficient for building, because they gave more.

Then somebody else called them out because it wasn't true. Double facepalm, right?

I just tested it and each rock gives 4 blocks in a Mason's Workshop.

It's only true for rock blocks. Wood, metal, glass, and ceramics only give 1.

[Urist MacNoob]

Trying to build a watchtower when a wild groundhog scares your mason off of the wall.

Got to watch out for those groundhogs.

[kilozombie]

Somebody said earlier that blocks were more efficient for building, because they gave more.

Then somebody else called them out because it wasn't true. Double facepalm, right?

I just tested it and each rock gives 4 blocks in a Mason's Workshop.

It's only true for rock blocks. Wood, metal, glass, and ceramics only give 1.

Oh, even.

...Damn. Well, then what's the point of making wood blocks? Lighter weight? I suppose you can store them in bins.