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[Khift]

I just realized that one of my marksdwarf squads had their training schedule set at "Train (1 minimum)" from back when there was only two of them. No wonder they weren't training for shit.

/facepalm

[Johuotar]

Woah you can do that!? 

No wonder my dorfs aren't training...

Failpalm 

[Greiger]

... 7 year old fortress... a military of 36 (2 died recently)... and I still have them on the same training schedule from year one when the total military numbers could be counted on one hand. 

I think we may have a rare and elusive forumwide facepalm.

[BurningLed]

What's that, you say?  It only takes 1 z-level of wall to completely dam a river?  Those goblins can now wander right ahead into your fortress through those failed irrigation attempts you never bothered to wall off?  That's too bad. On the bright side, those failed irrigation attempts had finally drained out, just before they were used as a break-in point.

R.I.P Datanlibash  .

[LizardKing]

My worst Facepalm moment was when I discovered

1- The existence of Bins
2- The use of Bins

I've never been more dumbstruct. I stared at my 6-levels warehouses, with all stockpiles cluttered with 1 item/square. All gems. All metal bars. All weapon. EVERY FUCKING INDIVIDUAL BOLTS.

All crafts..

Oh hell, you can do that?

LizardKing cancelled lunchbreak: Facepalming

[Euld]

I've savescummed probably a dozen times now, and regardless of how many times I try, it looks like the losses in my awesome castle in flux hills with metaphormic bedrock next to a brook in a canyon will be steep.  I thought the bridge and wall of floodgates would be ready in time for a goblin ambush, but I guessed wrong.  Once I managed to get all my dwarves back inside, but then one rushed out for no apparent reason, got cut to pieces by goblins, and the rest of the fortress ran out to grab their forbidden socks or something.

edit: ok! managed to save all but two dwarves.  I gave up on my mechanic/woodcutter (one of the original 7) because natural selection demanded it so.  She wouldn't stop running into the goblin ambush with the dwarf diplomat in tow.  Second one went stark raving mad and eventually committed suicide because of rampant pet slaughter and death of the mechanic/woodcutter.  I'd say I got off easy.  But then I facepalmed again when a cave-in nearly killed two miners, and I can't seem to get the doctors to perform properly to save their lives before they die of infection...

[Saposhiente]

... 7 year old fortress... a military of 36 (2 died recently)... and I still have them on the same training schedule from year one when the total military numbers could be counted on one hand. 

I think we may have a rare and elusive forumwide facepalm.

That's not much more... I can count to 31 on one hand! (In binary )

[bremarv]

fail 1: neglecting defense of my east brigde and courtyard because everything so far, meaning goblins, merchants and immigrants, have arrived so they where forced to use the west entrance by the rivers.

fail 2: no advanced warning system on eiter entrance. the area around the east one is usually swarmed with dwarves so they serve as warning, at the cost of an usless dwarf or three. not so much on the east one. got an ambush warning when the first one walked into the traps, which of course is on the fortress side. by the time I got the bridge closed, the goblins where busy slaugthering civilians left and right.

[Evergod41]

That's not much more... I can count to 31 on one hand! (In binary )

It took my until 16 before I realized that was exact, and possible.....

*facepalm*

[Phreak]

Facepalm.....realizing that after action reporter download for DF is 3 months old...then realizing that there is a forum and a development website for DF and eventually finding out there is a wiki, wow that is one horrible facepalm.(this was some time ago(June 2009))

[Tommy]

Sent a miner to dig out a frozen river, next to a pocket of unfrozen water - which immediately spread from said pocket to the miner's feet, before freezing solid and turning him into a tasty ice-based dorf snack.

[JAFANZ]

That's not much more... I can count to 31 on one hand! (In binary )

It took my until 16 before I realized that was exact, and possible.....

*facepalm*

There's 10 types of people in the world... 

[INSANEcyborg]

I decided to mix things up a bit and built an incinerator instead of an atom smasher.  Just a hollow shaft up to dump things in.  It had a graphite block road on the bottom, connected by a granite door, and a ramp leading up to dump things in.  I added a little bit of magma with DFhack to start the fire.  The idea was to dump everything in there, when the fire burned out I could go in and salvage anything that didn't burn, mostly metal that could be melted down.

The problem?  Fire safe does not mean fire proof.  I didn't realize that fire, unlike magma, will heat up adjacent tiles.  Or that fire burns hot enough to melt some types of stone, like the granite door I used.  Also, I didn't realize that when going though the stocks screen, I had unforbidden some of the items dumped.  Sure enough, some dwarf came by to pick something up, walking right into the fire.  He got about 10 tiles away before he started bleeding from his melted-off fat, and bleed out after another 10 tiles.

P.S.   Granite melts at 11440 degrees, and according to DFhack, fire is 11612 degrees.  It also melted (and came close to boiling) some zinc cages I had thrown in.   As for the creatures inside those cages...  well, they were no worse off then the creatures from the wooden cages.

[Urist McTaverish]

I decided to mix things up a bit and built an incinerator instead of an atom smasher.  Just a hollow shaft up to dump things in.  It had a graphite block road on the bottom, connected by a granite door, and a ramp leading up to dump things in.  I added a little bit of magma with DFhack to start the fire.  The idea was to dump everything in there, when the fire burned out I could go in and salvage anything that didn't burn, mostly metal that could be melted down.

The problem?  Fire safe does not mean fire proof.  I didn't realize that fire, unlike magma, will heat up adjacent tiles.  Or that fire burns hot enough to melt some types of stone, like the granite door I used.  Also, I didn't realize that when going though the stocks screen, I had unforbidden some of the items dumped.  Sure enough, some dwarf came by to pick something up, walking right into the fire.  He got about 10 tiles away before he started bleeding from his melted-off fat, and bleed out after another 10 tiles.

P.S.   Granite melts at 11440 degrees, and according to DFhack, fire is 11612 degrees.  It also melted (and came close to boiling) some zinc cages I had thrown in.   As for the creatures inside those cages...  well, they were no worse off then the creatures from the wooden cages.

At least he didn't get thirsty.

[TherosPherae]

Well, I thought I could get an easy well by channeling into a tile I knew was aquifer. I forgot that if the aquifer is on the same level as the channel designation, it will still flow out instead of just into the channel. First facepalm.

Then, I tried to stop it with magma from the nearby volcano to salvage my mines. I now have a central staircase that is flooded with either water, magma, or is blocked with obsidian. Second facepalm.