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[Matthew117]

Learning that I can designate digs that span z levels.

I still haven't figured that out yet. How do you do that?

[Time Kitten]

To double my facepalm, an entire immigration wave froze to death as I discovered water freezes for a few weeks on my map... I can't find a pick to mine my way through the ice.

[kurokikaze]

Third time in a row I ran out of fuel and had to go outside for wood. I have plenty of bitumnous coal/lignite, but smelter that uses them to melt ore is working faster than one doing fuel.

[Jack_Bread]

Forgot to make my craftsdwarf's workshop make crafts after it was taken over by my miner.
The caravan came with all the stuff that I wanted and I only have several backpacks, a quiver, and some rope to give. D:
EDIT:

[Dr. Melon]

I had two miners working on a giant pit shaft. One dwarf got attacked by a large rat and fell 40 z-levels. ;_;

[PhoenicIan]

Got a good laugh out of this thread so far, and it makes me feel not-as-bad about my own multitude of errors upon trying DF for the first time between yesterday today.

Here's how my Fortresses have panned out so far:

#1: I have absolutely no clue how to dig down when I start atop a hill with no walls nearby
#2: Hey let's embark with one pick and seven dwarves
#3: Hey, this time let's get through setting up half our foodstuffs, kind of, and then mash "e" on the wrong screen trying to type "meat".
#4: Hmm, I'll have the game seek out a nice area for me. Wow, even my beast of a computer is dragging. Hi there, Program Manager. DF is using...WHAT?! Almost TWO GIGS of memory. Trying to find an area. And then it promptly crashes.

Who's batting an oh-fer? Me! Just wait until I find Fun. D:

[Halmie]

Got a good laugh out of this thread so far, and it makes me feel not-as-bad about my own multitude of errors upon trying DF for the first time between yesterday today.

Here's how my Fortresses have panned out so far:

#1: I have absolutely no clue how to dig down when I start atop a hill with no walls nearby
#2: Hey let's embark with one pick and seven dwarves
#3: Hey, this time let's get through setting up half our foodstuffs, kind of, and then mash "e" on the wrong screen trying to type "meat".
#4: Hmm, I'll have the game seek out a nice area for me. Wow, even my beast of a computer is dragging. Hi there, Program Manager. DF is using...WHAT?! Almost TWO GIGS of memory. Trying to find an area. And then it promptly crashes.

Who's batting an oh-fer? Me! Just wait until I find Fun. D:

I haven't really played the new version due to bugs and a shitty computer.
#1: You can (d)esignate (I think it's j)down staircases(or atleast you could in previous versions) but make sure you (d)esignate (u)p OR (i)up/down staircases the level below or your dwarves will just poke a hole through.
#2: I do that often on purpose, I might not with the new underground as reclaiming the pick might be a tad hard.
#3: ?
#4: This is the communities fault for nagging Toady to release the new version.

[Chronas]

Learning that I can designate digs that span z levels.

I still haven't figured that out yet. How do you do that?

i would like to know too, the most efficient way of building staircases i found so far is holding down the mouse button in the square i want as well as [shift] + [>]

[PhoenicIan]

#3: Hey, this time let's get through setting up half our foodstuffs, kind of, and then mash "e" on the wrong screen trying to type "meat".

#3: ?

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I was typing in name so fthings on the 'new item' screen, doing the searches...and accidentally typed "MEAT" on the main screen, which contains the letter 'e', which embarks.

[Chronas]

in my fancy new fort i was  working hard to make awesome, i was going to raise the land value with some engravings done by my legendary engraver (legendary before he went fey) what i got:
a masterful engraving of an elf, the symbol of the fences of justice
 -my civ.

facepalm headdesk

[Sulphuratum]

Damned melting dwarves...
one half of the map was warm, one half hot.
i thought hot is not so evil, but everyone who wanted to go outside melted to death
*facepalm*

[Greiger]

Forgot to make a modded green dragon immune to it's own poison breath. 

I spent 30 minutes in the arena mode trying to figure out why they passed out and died shortly after killing my guinea pigs in arena mode before I finally figured it out.

[mrbobbyg]

Learning that I can designate digs that span z levels.

I still haven't figured that out yet. How do you do that?

i would like to know too, the most efficient way of building staircases i found so far is holding down the mouse button in the square i want as well as [shift] + [>]

That's how I do it now.  I know it's not perfect, but it's a hell of a lot better than doing it without the mouse.  Sorry, I wish I had a better tech.

[Ultimuh]

A racoon stole one of my battle axes from the embark wagon as all my dwarves were either mining or hauling rocks.. a racoon for armok's sake! What would it ned it for? and how would it be carrying it?


I fear I will be besieged by woodland animals in the next few seasons..

[Kipi]

A racoon stole one of my battle axes from the embark wagon as all my dwarves were either mining or hauling rocks.. a racoon for armok's sake! What would it ned it for? and how would it be carrying it?


I fear I will be besieged by woodland animals in the next few seasons..

Damn those hippies elves. Not did they shun you if you cut enough trees or tried sold wooden items to them, now they have trained wild animals to steal weapons used to cut those trees!!