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[Drazinononda]

I gave goblins special reactions so that they'd have access to adamantine by default, to increase difficulty. The first siege that comes? 100% Goblin Macemen.

This is perhaps one of the best ones in the thread: it's not a noob mistake, it's not even a mistake, it's just an unforeseen ironic consequence.

[PDF urist master]

imagine the looks on a goblin's face when they realized that their incredibly expensive wiffle bats is doing no damage whatsoever

[MaximumZero]

Started up a tiny embark with a little hill. Two seasons in, I've hit gold and platinum. We'll see where it goes from there.

[WanderingKid]

Decided to take on someone's comment about the 'single pick challenge'.  So, I buy and tinker with Fraps to get it working, figure out how to use Windows Movie Maker, and generally screw around a bit finally making myself a YouTube channel to boot.

So, after a few false starts and generally learning the priority order of starting with zilch, I get a decent run going and FINALLY have an embark which is undead terrifying, instead of just random rainstorms of plague across the landscape.  It's even got an undead yeti I've nicknamed the abominable snowman who's haranguing all migrants.

So, what do I do?  I activate FRAPS in the wrong damned window and proceed to record my voice and game for an hour while I record a screen holding the FRAPS movie folder...... and a clock.  That's it.

*headdesk*headdesk*headdesk*

We'll try this again over the weekend... right after I get this headshaped dent out of my keyboard.

[PDF urist master]

apparently forgotten beast thrips are immune to webs, since one got blasted with a ton of webs on cage trap yet with no effect.

it then used fire blast on my spider.

[dresdor]

Reading the legends today I found out why my solo dwarf died, despite being sealed away in the fortress with no access to the outside world and having plenty of food, beer, and being escatically happy.

She was killed by a human zombie.  How it got in I have no idea, must have teleported.  No human undead were inside the walls, and no human corpses either.  In fact, the only undead inside the fort were the occasional ghost.  I wasn't paying attention at the time, or I could have seen what was going on.  My next four attempts to retake the fort have failed for various reasons, and while I like the fort, I think that its time to give up.

[Sutremaine]

I have bought some unusual pets from caravan of "Poor Elf's second hand clothes", and first one didn't last for ONE YEAR and died of OLD AGE.

Was it a giant bug? Those have incredibly short lifespans.

[dresdor]

Another fun facepalm due to fortress reclaiming...

One reclaimed fort has an honor guard of freindly goblins....the same goblins who sieged the place and killed every last dwarf in the stronghold.

Another reclaimed fort has three very friendly necromancers....but their hordes of undead are still hostile and sneaking around.

I'd hate this game if I didn't love it so much

[PDF urist master]

apparently fire does not destroy trees.

[Rose]

I have bought some unusual pets from caravan of "Poor Elf's second hand clothes", and first one didn't last for ONE YEAR and died of OLD AGE. Beware, elves are not honest traders!

Well, tigers lions bears oh my don't last well on elven tofu.  The shock to coming back to real food at the hands of dwarves "saving" them can sometimes be too much for their weakened bodies.

Elves are cannibals. I seriously doubt they'd feed their animals plants.

[Vomitmaster]

Only face palm moments I've had so far is being unable to keep my dwarfs from dieing of thirst, every time. :T I can't figure out how to keep them from doing that.

[Ozarck]

The Answer, of course, is MOAR BEER.

Go to stocks menu (z), go to kitchen screen, disable the cook option on Plump helmets and cave wheat (and whatever else makes alcohol, I forget). Build a still, have it (b)rew drink on repeat. Buy all the alcohol the caravans offer Sewer brew, Swamp Whiskey, Longland wine, all of it.

[Vomitmaster]

The Answer, of course, is MOAR BEER.

Go to stocks menu (z), go to kitchen screen, disable the cook option on Plump helmets and cave wheat (and whatever else makes alcohol, I forget). Build a still, have it (b)rew drink on repeat. Buy all the alcohol the caravans offer Sewer brew, Swamp Whiskey, Longland wine, all of it.

I did! I had three stills running around the clock, PEOPLE STILL DIED OF THIRST

[Sutremaine]

Secure some water at floor level. More than one dwarf at a time can use an open water tile, and dwarves don't deplete the water when they drink it.

In theory you could sustain a fortress forever on half a dozen buckets of water taken from a murky pool, though the dwarves will hold out long enough to get thirsty and be unhappy with the water quality. Pumping the stagnant water from the collection pit to a 2-deep 1x1 pit will clean the water and keep the mud out of the dwarves' reach.

[Vomitmaster]

Secure some water at floor level. More than one dwarf at a time can use an open water tile, and dwarves don't deplete the water when they drink it.

In theory you could sustain a fortress forever on half a dozen buckets of water taken from a murky pool, though the dwarves will hold out long enough to get thirsty and be unhappy with the water quality. Pumping the stagnant water from the collection pit to a 2-deep 1x1 pit will clean the water and keep the mud out of the dwarves' reach.

Hm, time to start trying to embark with underground rivers!