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[Sutremaine]

Just a minor one.

I've been making the caverns safe by caving in walls to block all the edges off. Pulling the lever for the last of the sections, part of it disappears and a few tiles of shallow water remain in the place where I should have a nice wall. So I forcequit and reload to try and figure out what's going on. Don't spot anything, so I go on with Plan B, which is the raising drawbridges. Turns out that the floor I was collapsing the wall onto was neatly lined up with the ceiling of the next cavern layer. Thing is, I already knew that cave-ins don't necessarily reveal the below terrain even if you're right on top of it, I just was not at all expecting the second layer to be right there and didn't think about it.

[Ultimuh]

My mayor was a siege operator. I just had a liaison explode. WHY do they insist on standing directly in front of the ballista?

Because it's the best way of getting someones attention..
..Well, one of them..

[TolyK]

"Sir, please pay attention to me. Quit your f'n work and talk to me. If you continue then you will have acc*** ak! OOH! OW! yee... *dies*"

[proxn_punkd]

So I noticed the river had frozen. Great! Now I can remove that floodgate and build in a wall so I can reclaim the mechanisms I used in building the floodgate to control my farm's irrigation!

I sent somebody to go remove the floodgate. Immediately the river thawed and flooded my fort.

*facepalm*

[Musashi]

Forgot in my current fortress that you had to manually assign ammunition to your military in the m-menu before they could use their crossbows the proper way.
12 years the marksdwarfs are trying to melee their targets to death. Several deaths. One lived long enough to become a hammerdwarf.

Worst part: I was not only aware of it while managing my previous fort, but I had also found that feature spontaneously. *facepaaaaaalms*

[iyaerP]

Mining out a tube of cotton candy, managed to trap BOTH of my legendary miners at the bottom without a way up, and one of them is a starting 7. And so friends with half the fort. Can't WAIT for him to starve to death and start the tamtrum spiral.

[ungulateman]

Mining out a tube of cotton candy, managed to trap BOTH of my legendary miners at the bottom without a way up, and one of them is a starting 7. And so friends with half the fort. Can't WAIT for him to starve to death and start the tamtrum spiral.

Build staircases from above?

[FuzzyZergling]

Mining out a tube of cotton candy, managed to trap BOTH of my legendary miners at the bottom without a way up, and one of them is a starting 7. And so friends with half the fort. Can't WAIT for him to starve to death and start the tamtrum spiral.

Dump food and booze down?

Build staircases from above?

This as well.

[The_Final_Stand]

Children will often walk into a danger room for no good reason.

One such child was impaled and slain in a single stab.

I was at least hoping he could provide some experience for my medics.

Babies are similarly brought in to a danger room. Not only does the spike hitting the baby deprive the mother of experience, but the mother will also never take her child to the hospital.

:facepalm:

[TolyK]

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hehehe I just befriended a captured demon (human in a human civ) and he accidentally attacked an ally (fire breath) ... and HEY! wait a minute! he's an enemy of my civ, my group is an enemy of my civ, OG FUCK I'M MEELLLLLTTTTTTTTIIIIIIIIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!

and I just realized that I was playing .14 to boot :facepalm:

[Supersquee]

I just got taken out by Kobolds.

Yes, freaking Kobolds.

[Frosty_Dorf]

My mayor was a siege operator. I just had a liaison explode. WHY do they insist on standing directly in front of the ballista?

not when I'm eating XD
good thing i didn't have food in my mouth

[Kc_spot]

The trick with controling hauling stuff, is to turn off the hauling labors on dwarves you don't want getting distracted, and specialize your idle haulers once you get a set number. The reason for this, is that dwarves will claim items for hauling even if they are in the middle of a hauling job (if you have 20 idle haulers, and you need 20 stone and 20 wood hauled, you may see 10 haulers moving wood and 10 moving stone, but each wood hauler has claimed a stone for hauling and vice versa. If you set it so 10 of them are wood haulers and 10 of them stone haulers, then the woods will stick to their wood and the stones to stone).

/facplam

[Samuel]

So, I've found 2 new things out about fluid physics in Dwarf Fortress:

1. Fluid behaves more realistically then I expected, meaning that if you channel a tunnel downwards, the horizontally, then back up one z-level, water that flows down the shaft will fill the horizontal area then travel up that one z-level.

2. A well will not stop water from overflowing and flooding your entire fortress, covering everything in mud.

Gotta build and remove floors everywhere.

[Samuel]

Kept on giving dwarves the stonecrafting skill, wondering why nobody was Engraving the Memorial slab.  It's stone, right? It's at the craftsdwarf shop, right?