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[Pukako]

Windtunnel., sixth year in, 128 happy dwarves.

Adamantine industry going well, with militia picking up adamantine weapons and armour as they came off the anvil... FB's happily killing themselves, and the annual trog/crundle slaughter well established.

Then, to get more shiny adamantine, I decide to follow it under the lake by puncturing the magma pipe.... It sort of worked, with obsidian meaning the dwarves could get to the shiny stuff, but the draining of my surface lake, and associated defences, combined with goblin sieges and various dwarves being trapped on the wrong side with another, nastier FB....

Not good, especially with the game slowing to three FPS....

[Vehudur]

I accidently caved in half my fortress by channeling one wrong tile.

A piece fell, through the two floors below it, then down onto a large section overhanging a magma pit.  The overhanging section fell, through the floor of the magma pit, this took out the key support holding up an underground keep I had built and the whole keep crumbled into nothingness, falling into the magma sea and taking 121 dwarves with it.

[Saposhiente]

So. Is it possible to flood it with magma?


Also. Can you still mine out walls that are smoothed/fortified/engraved?

1. Yes, but it won't stop the clowns. Instead, put hatches or bridges above them, as BDs can't destroy things on different z-levels
2. Yes.

[UnrealJake]

I accidently caved in half my fortress by channeling one wrong tile.

A piece fell, through the two floors below it, then down onto a large section overhanging a magma pit.  The overhanging section fell, through the floor of the magma pit, this took out the key support holding up an underground keep I had built and the whole keep crumbled into nothingness, falling into the magma sea and taking 121 dwarves with it.

Oh wow, that's kind of sad, it reminds me of some futuristic lab built under sea, suspended over a giant chasm, and then the support goes and then entire team is sent plumeting into the deep...

MEGAPROJECT!

[NewSheoth]

I accidently caved in half my fortress by channeling one wrong tile.

A piece fell, through the two floors below it, then down onto a large section overhanging a magma pit.  The overhanging section fell, through the floor of the magma pit, this took out the key support holding up an underground keep I had built and the whole keep crumbled into nothingness, falling into the magma sea and taking 121 dwarves with it.

Now THAT is DF. Blood for the Blood God.
This is exactly why I try to support my buildings using walls, natural or constructed. Just as good as supports, but I don't have to build a floor on top of them, and single-tile walls are still a 'pillar'.

I probably shouldn't have sent my ENTIRE militia down to kill a FB with deadly dust. I now have 30 blind soldiers.

Oblivion flashbacks. Build a chapel and two small houses over your fort and make your entrance go through the chapel's basement.

[Flaede]

...one in each head. Then it killed me.

[UnrealJake]

This is Doctor UristMcScientist,  year three, day fifty-six, of the Atlantis Project. I can hear the support out there, creaking away. I don't know exactly what happened by McMechanic was out there two days ago and he's not come back. McLyemaker said she saw his body float by shorty after the crash. She was probably right. The shakes are getting faster and there is one every Urist or so now, we sounded the job cancel spam but I think they disabled it, we're going to die down here.

*The sound of a large, dull grinding comes from outside*

...that was the largest one yet *Sounds of pipes bursting and water leaking* it's going to happen soon... Armok bless us.

[Vehudur]

I accidently caved in half my fortress by channeling one wrong tile.

A piece fell, through the two floors below it, then down onto a large section overhanging a magma pit.  The overhanging section fell, through the floor of the magma pit, this took out the key support holding up an underground keep I had built and the whole keep crumbled into nothingness, falling into the magma sea and taking 121 dwarves with it.

Oh wow, that's kind of sad, it reminds me of some futuristic lab built under sea, suspended over a giant chasm, and then the support goes and then entire team is sent plumeting into the deep...

MEGAPROJECT!

Now THAT is DF. Blood for the Blood God.
This is exactly why I try to support my buildings using walls, natural or constructed. Just as good as supports, but I don't have to build a floor on top of them, and single-tile walls are still a 'pillar'.

The best part?  I didn't even realize how bad it was at first.

I had a cave in.  One tile.  No biggie.  Unpaused.  Another collapse.  Aw damn, it took out my nice altar to Armok. 

Unpaused again.

Wut?  it froze up for 5 minutes.

Another cave-in.  Oh shit, that's my whole fortress.

Urist McSomeone has died after colliding with an obstacle / bleed to death x121.

Urist McPoorGuyWhoLostEveryoneHeKnew is stricken with melancholy!

(a while later)

Your fortress has crumbled to its end.

[Maninblack144]

Aw damn, it took out my nice altar to Armok. 

There's your problem right there, Armok couldn't have been very happy.

As for my own facepalm, I designated remove up stairs/ramps on the side of a small hill beneath my fortress entrance. A very short while later I was desperately trying to figure out what was preventing my dwarfs from reaching the surface. Turns out I accidentally designated my central stairway as well.

[Captain Insano]

All of my migrants run smack into the waves upon waves of ambushes.

[Winged00m]

I came to some creepy lair to kill a spouse of shadow, who was haunting people of villages around.
She punched me in the face and my head blown into pieces.
This happened to ~4 more my heroes (even with some squad I was always headshott'd).

Then I came to her again, waiting for crushing punch. Bitten her in the throat, shaken around few times. She bled to death.

[ikkonoishi]

Preparing for the journey I had the idea to bring lots of cow's milk along instead of food. I figured I could cheese it up and make some valuable meals while I dug everything out. Got to the site, and ordered everything from the wagon dumped underground before frostbite set in. When that was done I noticed a lot of the dwarves cleaning around the dumpsite. They had removed the frozen milk chunks from the barrels, and set them on the floor to melt.

[gasman]

discovering the d->b menu.

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

Oh man same here for me.

I remember digging out a large room, and then sighing as I would press 'k' then I'd press right, D, right, D, right, D etc etc until i marked like 200 stones for dumping.

Then someone showed me mass dumping...  I love that man.

Wait, what?! Oh ye gods, I am so glad I walked into this discussion.
And I guess that tells my facepalm moment...

[Vertigon]

Yes, I was fortunate enough to read this thread before encountering that situation, so I came prepared with knowledge. I owe a lot to the people who facepalmed for me.

[werty892]

Useing to much

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Beer

In my explosion mining system.

My fort is now a giant hole