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[FuzzyDoom]

....no clue how I am going to survive this if only 1 game month in all my supplies are pretty much gone with no way to get them back easily and having only one pick left and they dwarf with it not wanting to mine they are all going to starve less than 2 months into the embark at this rate

Simple solution. (if you started over the pool)  Dig out a large room in the dirt on the same z-level and next to the pool.  Then, when the room is ready, channel out as many tiles between the room and poll as you can from above.  The water will drain from the pool, into the room and create access to the goods and supplies.  Added Bonus: You get a Farm room out of the deal.

That's what I had to do once. If it was in the river...Magma?...somehow.

[jackrabbitslim]

i have a dwarf who should be in porn... named fikod abirfikod... which means fikod romanceglaze...

[Beardless]

I almost embarked in The Unthinkable Swamp just to prove a point, but I'm tired of flat terrain. In the end I settled on two mountain ranges, one Terrifying, the other Joyful Wilds, with a narrow savage jungle valley between them.

Oh, wait. I'm looking at the world map. There's an entire region tile between them. (That's 1!)

Alright, I'll settle on the Terrifying mountain. There's an awesome set of high cliffs right at the edge of the valley. I can actually make a great story out of that: The journey to a holy mountain terminated by a vast escarpment, the way back blocked by the undead... Embark!

Huh. This is more like a really long hill. Dang it, there's a worldgen option for this isn't there? (That's 2!)

Ugh, I just spent three hours tweaking that embark profile. I should at least play for a little while. Let's start with the military... No! That short sword is reserved for the militia! Full-time soldiers get axes, dammit!

After struggling for half an hour to get the soldier to swap weapons, I realized I'd been assigning weapons to the uniform template, and not to the squad. (Aaaand that's 3!)

My personal rule ("The Rule of Three Really Dumb Mistakes") states that three facepalms means it's time to quit for the night before I do something really stupid... but I could let my computer generate a new world with the proper settings while I'm getting ready for bed! (Yeah I don't see where that could go wrong... )

[Vehudur]

I had a dwarf go berzerk and kill half my fortress in less than 15 seconds..

Including 6 legendary hammerdwarves, a legendary marksdwarf and a few less-well-trained troops.

I facepalmed.

Also:

Oh god I can see the tantrum spiral coming already.

And so much miasma.

[Raufgar]

The image below says it all:



<Face Palm>

EDIT: Ugh, that's an ugly pic, will change it when I can get a better one...

[Kipi]

The image below says it all:



<Face Palm>

EDIT: Ugh, that's an ugly pic, will change it when I can get a better one...

Well, I have seen magma crabs in the magma sea...

My latest:
I have set the announcements in the way that the game pauses immediately when one of my animals gives a birth so that I can immediately set the newborn to be butchered.
Well, I got a message stating that "*xxx* has given birth to *yyy*. The game paused, and I didn't check the message properly, so I immediately went to 'z' -> 'a' to set the newborn to be butchered. I wondered why I didn't see any animals in the list available for butcher before I realized the message was *Litast Oshurakrul, Butcher has given birth to a girl"...
*facepalm* 

[Vehudur]

Ooops.

Nice, beautiful waterfall in the middle of the dining area.  Drains right into the canyon, how convenient!

And then the exit froze over in winter.

It went badly.

[Rockphed]

I have set the announcements in the way that the game pauses immediately when one of my animals gives a birth so that I can immediately set the newborn to be butchered.
Well, I got a message stating that "*xxx* has given birth to *yyy*. The game paused, and I didn't check the message properly, so I immediately went to 'z' -> 'a' to set the newborn to be butchered. I wondered why I didn't see any animals in the list available for butcher before I realized the message was *Litast Oshurakrul, Butcher has given birth to a girl"...
*facepalm* 

Obviously her long association with puppies and kittens made her want a little creature of her own...

[elizar]

no, once a cage is attached to the lever (or any building for that matter), it is removed from the possible links, so it just moves onto the next one.  It is impossible to link a lever to a building multiple times.

I...

I did not know this.

...

So many wasted hours.

All my time setting up fights in the arena...

This was about setting "Link to Cage" on repeat.

[celem]

Talking of kittens....

I very nearly lost my fort today when a goblin seige caught me with many traps jammed/full from a series of ambushes.  Time for secret mega backup weapon 1.....the doberbomb.  I send a lowly hauler running for the lever to unleash 60 wardogs onto my bridge......instead i unleashed 60 cats into the area around my butchers...in the confusion ensuing from the seige itself i didnt notice till about half had latched onto various important dwarfs.

Right lever, just linked to the wrong shared cage

[Megaman3321]

I accidentaly offered 6 masterwork mechanisms worth 360 each instead of trading them. *facepalm*

[deoxys413]

The image below says it all:



<Face Palm>

EDIT: Ugh, that's an ugly pic, will change it when I can get a better one...

At least you're not getting spammed over the fact there is nothing to catch in the

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

eerie glowing pit

[Bookdust]

I embarked on this mountain way up in the north where everything is freezing! But I got this volcano right up close. But I have no easily available water source. So I dig down and find an underground lake and start planning my first pump stack (I'm still pretty new at this game) but as I'm getting everything ready I realize that I haven't any trees to help me build the pumps and the water wheel I had planned. And I used all of the wood I brought with me on embark to construct beds.




 

[MaximumZero]

Just wait until tower caps grow.

It's all good, man.

Edit: MaximumZero cancels post: Being retarded.

[Samuel]

I recently learned that of all the ways to kill elf merchants in an effort to steal their stuff, walling them in and then dropping the ceiling on them was probably among the more ill-advised methods.

I also should have made sure my miners didn't somehow find themselves in the room just as the last bit of channeling was completed.