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[eclipsetail]

Blocking off a dragon using a wall.

Realising too late it was made of wood.

[Spectre]

Are there now differences in what material a construction is made from? 

[Funtimes]

Not once construction is finished, but they're vulnerable while being put up.

[Grendus]

I decided to remove the fps cap on my fort just to see what it could do. Bad move, my fps rocketed up to 300,000+ when I was irrigating the farms. The water filled the fort before I could get to the lever.

Guess I better put the cap back on.

Holy crap, what kind of computer are you playing on?

An older one from 40d. At one point while playing dig deeper I decided to make a megatrap. I took an entire floor of my 31x31 tower and filled it with glass spikes. Of course, the first time I turned it on one of my soldiers decides to walk through it in order to reach the orcs charging through. I turn it off and he crawls out, not really a huge facepalm. He has red wounds on his legs, but he recovered three seasons later so it wasn't too bad. Meanwhile, the orcs are about halfway through the path before I can turn the spikes back on. It works like a charm, aside from a few lulls where the puller got tired and it randomly chose the dwarf on the other side of the fortress to pull the lever, it killed them all.

The facepalm? Mixed among the orc soldier corpses and orcanite steel ore, I found the corpses of three goblin snatchers and two kobold thieves. Very fun.

Another time I had some imps that liked to torch the left half of my map. Luckily, it was bisected by a brook, so the fire couldn't come across... or so I thought. Turns out, in order to power the drainage pumps for my drowning trap I had put this nice path across the brook of wooden axles and waterwheels. Oops.

Edit: current facepalm, was waiting for my dwarves to dig into some coal in a white layer. I didn't realize the mountain I'm on is made of both chalk and marble. Looks like I gotta dig up to make steel, but on the bright side there's a lot of sphalerite in the lower slate layers. Brass makes great trade goods and furniture for lesser nobles.

[eclipsetail]

I decided to remove the fps cap on my fort just to see what it could do. Bad move, my fps rocketed up to 300,000+ when I was irrigating the farms. The water filled the fort before I could get to the lever.

Guess I better put the cap back on.

Holy crap, what kind of computer are you playing on?

Chuck Norris's

[Diablous]

I decided to remove the fps cap on my fort just to see what it could do. Bad move, my fps rocketed up to 300,000+ when I was irrigating the farms. The water filled the fort before I could get to the lever.

Guess I better put the cap back on.

Holy crap, what kind of computer are you playing on?

His processor is made out of the brain of a god.

[eclipsetail]

I decided to remove the fps cap on my fort just to see what it could do. Bad move, my fps rocketed up to 300,000+ when I was irrigating the farms. The water filled the fort before I could get to the lever.

Guess I better put the cap back on.

Holy crap, what kind of computer are you playing on?

His processor is made out of the brain of a god.

That's what I said.

[Spectre]

I decided to remove the fps cap on my fort just to see what it could do. Bad move, my fps rocketed up to 300,000+ when I was irrigating the farms. The water filled the fort before I could get to the lever.

Guess I better put the cap back on.

Holy crap, what kind of computer are you playing on?

He's playing on a server with 16 CPU slots and 2 TB RAM

[happydog23]

I decided to remove the fps cap on my fort just to see what it could do. Bad move, my fps rocketed up to 300,000+ when I was irrigating the farms. The water filled the fort before I could get to the lever.

Guess I better put the cap back on.

Holy crap, what kind of computer are you playing on?

He's playing on a server with 16 CPU slots and 2 TB RAM

I want a 16 CPU slot 2TB RAM machine that has amazing single threaded performance for DF.  It may make the other 31 - 95 cores jealous though.

[Grendus]

I decided to remove the fps cap on my fort just to see what it could do. Bad move, my fps rocketed up to 300,000+ when I was irrigating the farms. The water filled the fort before I could get to the lever.

Guess I better put the cap back on.

Holy crap, what kind of computer are you playing on?

He's playing on a server with 16 CPU slots and 2 TB RAM

Very useful for a single threaded game.

More likely, he's using something like an Intel i5/i7 with 4-8gb ram, possibly overclocked with an early fort on a small map.

Which is still impressive, considering on a dual 2.2 ghz I barely get 150 fps on embark.

[NightmareBros]

Oh god quick check and make sure your computer isn't a cosmc horror in disguise or something

[Daetrin]

Nyarlohotep has been content recently. He has played a game of dwarf fortress recently.

[darkwolf]

Cthulhu cancels Play Dwarf Fortress: Gone insane.

It had to be said. 

[Svampapa]

Having dug the most impressive entrance I've had so far, half a mountain of sand and silt removed, I decide I want the stockpiles in the silty clay above. Less stone to haul and all that. So I construct my self a stair and designate a downstair... and puncture the aquifier. The most awesomest entrance I ever did is now the most awesomest pool I ever did.

Facepalm, re-embark, do it all over again.

[Terv]

I was playing yesterday, putting a few finishing touches on some projects when I got the announcement that my legendary hunter of 3-4 years had bled to death. This woman had killed a massive amount of wolves, some cougars and various underground fauna. Finally, the badass hunter, Lilly, had her arm torn from her body by a jabberer and bled to death seconds later. My Fort Guard quickly dispatched the beast. I facepalmed when she died because she came in the second migrant wave and had since then provided our fortress with massive amounts of food. I didn't think to get another hunter. I quickly got an unskilled trapper to take her position. She was buried in a tomb adorned in engravings and silver statues. Since then, however, our meat supply has fallen due to the new hunter's lack of skill.