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[Mr Space Cat]

I was starting an embark on a terrifying tundra with the goal of building an aboveground fortress regardless of the zombies or horrible clouds.

I spent 30 minutes painstakingly preparing to embark, after starting with a completely blank template. After embarking I realized I forgot the picks.

Ctrl+Alt+Delete restart mode engaged.

[thoushaltcallmelars]

What do you do when you have an entire (50x50) stone stockpile full of dolomite, hematite, magnetite, and limonite, and enough charcoal to make Elves bawl their eyes out?

You spam-craft steel, right? Right?
Yeah, someone invent a time machine and tell me that when I was making this fortress.

You see, I didn't realize that "Dolomite = Flux Stone" and the implications thereof - I could've had full suits of steel armor within the first year. Of course, I realized it real quick-like when my military got squashed by Lashers three months before a siege. I'm supposed to outfit and train a new military that fast... how, again?

Needless to say:
thoushaltcallmelars cancels Fortress Mode; Raging at his own stupidity and lack of planning ahead.

[smjjames]

I actually had a minor facepalm moment with stockpiles. I had been planting some pigtail to get a cloth industry started up, but I didn't realize that I had not set up a stockpile to accept the pigtail, so I had lost some of it, but I didn't lose all of it, so it's not too bad.

[Repseki]

A goblin ambush popped up just outside the gates, where I had about 15 War Dog's stationed. About a minute later those dogs are all dead, but they happened to startle the goblins enough to scare them off.

I open things up and a few dwarves start collecting everything only to have a Were-Scorpion pop up right next to a few of them. Thinking my three Spear Dwarves in full steel and decently trained would be enough I quickly had them rush out to try and save those outside.

Farmer stabbed in the head with it's stinger first hit.

Hauler punched for a broken arm, then kicked in the chest and propelled 20 tiles away.

My military reach it, I cross my fingers. It grabs and rips out the back teeth of my Commander before stabbing him in the face, breaks the leg of another, and stabs the last in the gut only to have him transform immediately and finish off his friend. He then kills the original Were, and rips the Hauler apart before turning back into a Dwarf and looking around confused.

I think I'll just let my cage traps deal with were-beasts from now on...

[smjjames]

Aren't werebeasts trap immune?

[WillowLuman]

Yes

[smjjames]

I was testing the production using a drop chute from the sand collection point when suddenly...



DAMMIT! XD *immediately stops all sand and glass production and drop chute usage* Killed one of my dwarves (13 z level drop from collection point) and broke the leg of my broker/manager who somehow managed to dodge two tiles away.

So much for the drop chute........

Also, I am in no way supersitious, it would have been deadly at 12 or 14 z levels.

[Rockphed]

I was testing the production using a drop chute from the sand collection point when suddenly...
DAMMIT! XD *immediately stops all sand and glass production and drop chute usage* Killed one of my dwarves (13 z level drop from collection point) and broke the leg of my broker/manager who somehow managed to dodge two tiles away.

So much for the drop chute........

Also, I am in no way supersitious, it would have been deadly at 12 or 14 z levels.

In the future, use a hatch cover 1 level above the bottom.  Then just cycle it every time you run out of sand.

[Tovical]

I went to dig a moat and realized I could not because I had (for a third time, no less) carved out rooms on the level where my moat needed to be.

[fricy]

Not in the game, but I think it still counts:
Uploaded a new Macnewbie pack to dffd.wimbli.com from a super slow connection, finished editing the descriptions, copied about 10 links, etc. Then clicked delete listing by mistake.

-SLAM-
-SLAM-
-SLAM-

-facedesk-

edit: of course I did it again. Third time the charm...

[Yesirn]

Sent out 8 military dwarves ( all of them mostly untrained ) to kill a goblin theif.

The goblin theif parried my dwarfs attack and counter attacked and instantly killed him took the leg off of another and broke anothers leg.

Goblin theif too strong.

[Yesirn]

And then an ambush comes.

*whole military dead*

[Valikdu]

No, you can't stockpile inorganic materials that are just tagged as [BONE].

*facedesk*

[Grimmash]

On my current map I started a massive defensive project consisting of walled farms and pastures, a trap filled courtyard, and an execution shaft.  Problems that have occurred:

After completely finishing the project, siege comes and I realize I left 3 up ramps to one section of wall, 40 goblins rush in.

After surviving said siege, I open the gates, and let out my dwarves to collect dead and fix the stupid ramp.  An ambush comes while they collect the dead and no less than 10 civvies and 10 militia are slaughtered by three goblin crossbowmen. Three crossbowmen do more damage than a 40 goblin siege.

When dumping the caged goblins into the execution pit I forget to close the bridge at the bottom, and find out that a 20 z level fall does not kill most of them.  I can't dig deeper yet, because the caverns one z level below have two forgotten beasts running around.

I think the end goal will be to drop the shaft into the FB pits and let the gobbos and FBs sort out their issues while I get to work finding the magma.

[Pinstar]

Embark with a hunter who has a copper crossbow and 20 copper crossbow bolts. He proceeds to attack some wildlife (I don't remember the kind, but it was nothing dangerous)

He proceeds to unload all 20 crossbow bolts into the beast wounding it to hell but failing to kill it. Cancels job due to running out of bolts. Beastie bleeds to death and dies, but rots before anyone comes to get it.