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[lolghurt]

Discovered that insane dorfs will throw themselves down your artificial waterfall, making their corpse impossible to retrieve, and filling your meting hall with miasma.
Also, cats have a tendency to survive ten level drops, and manage to give birth just before bleeding out.

[zagibu]

Discovered that insane dorfs will throw themselves down your artificial waterfall, making their corpse impossible to retrieve, and filling your meting hall with miasma.
Also, cats have a tendency to survive ten level drops, and manage to give birth just before bleeding out.

Hehe, there you thought having an open waterfall drainage in your fortress was a good idea, and promptly Murphy came along and taught you a valuable lesson.

[Flaede]

Discovered that insane dorfs will throw themselves down your artificial waterfall, making their corpse impossible to retrieve, and filling your meting hall with miasma.
Also, cats have a tendency to survive ten level drops, and manage to give birth just before bleeding out.

GRATES.

[Bronimin]

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[lolghurt]

Discovered that insane dorfs will throw themselves down your artificial waterfall, making their corpse impossible to retrieve, and filling your meting hall with miasma.
Also, cats have a tendency to survive ten level drops, and manage to give birth just before bleeding out.

GRATES.

Discovered That insane dorfs can get to the normally impossible to get to top of the waterfall, which is impossible to grate because you have to swim through a couple of hundred 7/7 tiles and build on a 4/7 one. Then they will throw themselves onto the grate you build in your dining hall.

[random guardian]

Urist McDumassMason has died of thirst
A section of the cavern has collapsed
Urist McChannler has bled to death
Urist McChannler#2 has bled to death
A human caravan has arived
Urist McOhLetsSitUnderThisBridgeNextToTheOtherBridgeBlockingTheEscapeAndTheCaravan has been crushed

 It was in that relative order. I guess my trap door bridge was never ment to be.

[Horizon9]

I was in the Object Testing Arena.
I was playing around with a legendary Hammerdwarf with legendary armor and shield, who was equipped with a steel warhammer and slade armor with a slade shield.
I facepalmed when I forgot to remove all of that before spawning a Bronze Cololussus.
He proceeded to beat the sh*t out of everything around him, and nothing I used hurt him.
Not even lava took him down.

[nekoexmachina]

My legendary adventurer (leg. axeman + shield + armor + dodger) was just killed. By the horse! I was wiping out the dwarven mountainhome, killed almost everyone including king and some leg. axedorfs, and one of the last hostiles was that horse. It was together with 2 peasants, just kicking me.
Before that I got only couple of light wounds with all the other dorfs (about 50), killing most of them with single axehack, but the horse.. i could not kill it. It was dodging all of my attacks, while it was successfully beating me. ;(

[immibis]

Constructed a cistern and buckets, started the bucket brigade to fill it up. While they were filling it, I got a well set up, so the nurses could get water from the cistern without wandering all the way outside while the patients died of thirst. As soon as the well was finished, all the bucket brigade dwarfs began filling their buckets from the well. I had 20 dwarves in a small room, taking water from a well and pouring it into a hole to fill the well.
I didn't realize it until a season later when I realized that the cistern wasn't getting any fuller.

Yeah, that happened with my hospital's cistern too. Dorfs were running around filling it with it's own water.

I know this is an old quote, but I've exploited that to make a dwarf-powered waterwheel.

[Skelodwarf]

Channeled out a rather basic irrigation system, only to realize the layer above it is channeled too, straight to the glorious sun. So much for those Potatoes...

(Eh, I'll just have a cross-hatched farm plot, it'll work)

Edit: Finished FailFarm:

[Urist McTaverish]

Somehow my chief medical dorf (he no longer deserves the title Dwarf) fell and hurt himself while I was channeling for a waterfall in my dining room.  Two seasons later he succumbs to infection.  And I didn't get the waterfall to work properly.

[Lord Shonus]

My weaponsmith is posessed, he's made two masterpiece weapons...
I know, this will not go over well, especially since my greed will make me want to sell those to traders.

Selling masterpieces is not defacement.

[AngleWyrm]

Just started pitting a squad of goblin archers that sieged me a minute ago, and here comes an Ettin. The ettin gets cage-trapped, and I'm going 'Cool, I'll throw him in the pit with the goblins and see what happens!'

Then I go back to pitting the rest of the caged goblins, and accidentally select the ettin for pitting while he's still being brought to the store room. The dwarf obediently lets him out of the cage, and he goes on a rampage, busting up a bunch of cage traps, and killing three dwarves before I figure out what's going on and call the military to dispatch him.

[ungulateman]

Channeled out a rather basic irrigation system, only to realize the layer above it is channeled too, straight to the glorious sun. So much for those Potatoes...

Potatoes? Are you using my mod?

If you are,

[stormyseasons]

..So I pick a new, more challenging embark site, glacier next to artic ocean.... Dig down to the caverns, set up my farms, food stocks etc etc.... And then start losing dwarves to cave critter attacks. cue facepalm when I realise I hadn't walled off an area of the caves to keep the critters out. Designate appropriate numbers of walls at appropriate spots... Critter related deaths continue. Cue facepalm to realise I'd overlooked 2 small 1 tile ramps that led to the other caverns. And hadn't set up any squad patrols either... Gave up on walling off the caverns after that. At least beating off the occasional crundle swarm or blind cave ogre pair will give my dwarves some military experience.