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[Magistrum]

i accidentally made my gemcutter build a jeweler without making sure he had an exit.
something i only noticed when the message "gem cutter has been missing for a week" appeared... such a newbie mistake.   

Don't worry, this is a quite common mistake... Happens when you just got to set up a new floor to the fortress and is making twenty or more rooms at once, some things slip by...
Oh, and welcome to the forums!

[KiBoy]

I have a pet kitten that I have no idea what do with it. I can't cage it, chain it, military won't touch it either. And I don't want catsplosion any time soon, so... Any ideas?

Oh wait, nevermind. I just remembered magma solves EVERYTHING.

i accidentally made my gemcutter build a jeweler without making sure he had an exit.
something i only noticed when the message "gem cutter has been missing for a week" appeared... such a newbie mistake.   

Don't worry, this is a quite common mistake... Happens when you just got to set up a new floor to the fortress and is making twenty or more rooms at once, some things slip by...
Oh, and welcome to the forums!

I think we all starved/dehydrated our gemcutters to death at one point. It's like a rite of passage to become a fully-fledged dwarf.

[Agent_Irons]

Trying to get rid of some cast obsidian I accidentally created. Dug instead of taking the time to channel properly. The resulting cave in knocked my mayor/accountant/legendary +3 miner neatly down one z-level, breaking his neck. Not a scratch on him otherwise. Or on anyone else.

Reverse facepalm: deadly dust forgotten beast knocked a piece of granite into its own head, killing it.

[KiBoy]

Trying to get rid of some cast obsidian I accidentally created. Dug instead of taking the time to channel properly. The resulting cave in knocked my mayor/accountant/legendary +3 miner neatly down one z-level, breaking his neck. Not a scratch on him otherwise. Or on anyone else.

Reverse facepalm: deadly dust forgotten beast knocked a piece of granite into its own head, killing it.

For some reason expedition leaders/mayors survive pretty often with head injuries. My expedition leader for example broke her skull from 1 z-level drop after a cave-in. She passed out a few times, but otherwise she immediately returned to work. Damn, dwarven women are freaking tough...

Oh well, FB are stupid, not much we can do about that...

[Agent_Irons]

Oh no, my mayor was instantly killed.

[MrsStick]

Finally got both atom-smashers up and running and pulled one of the levers. Instantly realize that a retracting bridge =/= atom smasher. It just fluffs the stuff around. I ran the other one (finally got over losing a few non-trash pieces, including a bit of iron) just to satisfy my need to destroy stuff, then designated the retracting bridge for removal. I'll re-build it...I like being able to sort stuff from one zone to the other to keep good stuff from being smashed. Hooray.

[Imminent]

Modding a caste of dwarves to be [FIREIMMUNE_SUPER] dragon-handlers does NOT make them resistant to being boiled alive by the blood of exploding goblins that the dragons breathed on.

[TheFlame52]

I think what the FIREIMMUNEs do is they keep a unit from being on fire, not from melting in the heat.

[sal880612m]

A falcon got into my fort and in a rush to catch it I threw up a row of cage traps only to have it get away and realize the cage traps were locking some merchants in.

[samanato]

Trying to dig an opening next to the river at the base of a waterfall to build a bridge there, and instead designating the digging in the level under that, where the river water was. Yeah...

[bigjaredmonkey]

realizing how burrows work.

i r newb.

[Grax]

realizing how burrows work.

i r newb.

Somewhen you'll realize the way they don't work.

[Steelmagic]

I dug into a river for a flow of water. I was going to control the flow with a floodgate, I only realized after mining out the tile that the floodgate wasn't finished yet. Also I had no failsafe and the fort was promptly flooded.

In another fort I intended to flood the elves so I could take their stuff, so when they arrived at the trade depot the room filled with water, all went well until I realized I did not build a way to drain the water after drowning the elves. I just generally don't agree with water, it seems.

[Sutremaine]

Brought the laptop into the kitchen to refer to a recipe, and didn't stop playing (I was trading with the Mountainhomes! New weapons for my traps!). Laptop battery died one minute before I was done to bring it back to the charger.

Why not use mains power?

[MrsStick]

Brought the laptop into the kitchen to refer to a recipe, and didn't stop playing (I was trading with the Mountainhomes! New weapons for my traps!). Laptop battery died one minute before I was done to bring it back to the charger.

Why not use mains power?

Didn't want to disentangle the cord. Laziness at its finest!