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[shadowzfire]

I've dug around a entire demon fortress once and surrounded it, i never went in it though for the fear of the one-humped zombie camel and other demons.

Dwarves: I have you surrounded, come out peacefully.
Demon on the other side of 1 square wall: RAWRRR!
Random Miner: Digs out 1 square wall: *is repeatedly raped by demons*
Dwarves: CHARGE!!!!

Of course, I don't really want to remember the rest of what happened that day... (On my friends fort) It wasn't my fault I swear 

[magmaholic]

discovering the d->b menu.

oh god, the finger-destroying ages spent with the k tool manually dumping individual stones

!!!!!!!!!
RAWR!!!
just discovered it!

[Zidane]

I hit warm stone and I thought " cool magma, I'll just dig to the top of the magma sea.

What I didn't know was that my first exploritory shaft would pierce a vein of adamantite... with predictable results... Atleast I now have REALLY REALLY nice picks for the new miners. I gave my last pick to the sole survivor, whom I named Kilroy the Brave.

[TomiTapio]

It was winter and some dwarves had gotten the bad habit of using the iced over river as a shortcut while carrying cut wood.  Then the ice poofed and I'm short two more dwarves. 

Might be worth looking into: convert stones laying around into rough floors. Much masonry skills gained.
Safer pools because you never know which way they'll dodge in the heat of the battle.

apparently Ettins are vulnerable to cage traps. I now have a caged Ettin.

Vanilla DF problem that wooden cages (smaller than wagons) stop dragons and colossi. One of the reasons I prefer modding and fine-tuning the DF.

[GHudston]

I recently decided that I'd try playing DF in the classic ascii for the first time (not quite, I'm still using a square tileset ) so that I could get a lot more onto my screen at once.

So I embark at my new fortress of Cryptzeal and begin chipping away at the mountains when, suddenly, I spy a pair of lower case g's on the horizon. Now, I've read enough "Let's Play"'s to know that a lower case g is a goblin. I have no dwarves with any combat ability and I haven't even begun to move into the safety of the mountain so, naturally, I nearly have a heart attack and start making emergency battle plans.

They were goats.

[castun]

Well just had a facepalm moment myself.  Was trying to collapse a large part of the overhanging floor sticking out above my fortress entrance by channeling it off.  Even though I went to the trouble of setting a restricted area where NOT to stand (I'm guessing they ignore this when performing certain tasks?), he still decided to move to the wrong side just as he dug the last piece.  And died.



Perhaps I should've just walled off that area instead.  Then again, I have the feeling he would still be in the same predicament.

[petersohn]

I decided to get rid of some unwanted items with magma. The problem: some kind of non-magma safe material got into my door holding back the magma, which got destroyed, so I couldn't shut off the flow. No problem, said I, just channel out the floor above, and pour water on the magma. Another problem: I designated 2 rows at once for channeling. The result was predictable: a cave in killed my miner, and some other dwarves (due to magma mist I think). OK, be more cautious next time.

A bit of time later, other dwarves start bleeding to death. WTF? Looking at it, the magma was flowing out from the room I was channeling above. At the place of the prior cave in.

[drkpaladin]

I facepalmed when I realized I could go into the stocks screen and designate all the kittens for slaughter there.  I was tracking them down through the unit menu and zooming in on announcements and it took for freakin ever.

[veok]

Note to self: You can't use magma to melt things if you turn temperature off.

[Johuotar]

playing version which has invasions off and then patching to version which fixes invasions is good idea.

However its not good idea if you dont have any military dwarfs trained and equipped before applying the version.

[Samuel]

I played for around three hours straight, and then- I swear this is true- the second I went to save the game, my computer crashed.

[digitCruncher]

This crash is why I now have seasonal autosaves. With seasonal backups too. But I feel your pain >.<

[Julius Clonkus]

While we're talking about save failures...

I recently played a fortress and for the first time managed to dispatch the first ambush without suffering horrible losses. I decided to save so I could be sure that I do not have to replay the situation.

The game crashed when it tried to save.

[Duriel]

Another one...

A goblin ambush spawned. I thought the entrance traps could handle 'em. Most of them got splattered, but some decided to stay at the entrance.

And I forgot to set the civilian alert level...

A dwarf rushed to the entrance, saw a goblin and ran away. The goblin Axeman marched over the jammed weapon traps chasing the poor dwarf, mauled the guard dogs and got inside the fortress.

Many dwarves and animals suffered... Until the Axeman met a War Tiger.

I thought he would meet the same fate as the others. To my amazement, it turned out neither could hurt each other.

The battle continued, until they were outside. The Tiger chased the goblin to the map edge and the goblin was never seen again.

That War Tiger deserves a reward in my opinion.



Oh, and I also found out that cave spider/leather clothing is surprisingly effective against bronze weapons.

[veok]

I'm... just going to leave this picture here...