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Author Topic: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2208623 times)

Mickey Blue

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3705 on: January 24, 2011, 12:04:33 pm »



I had thought that buildings on top of ice did not collapse when it melted?

Cannot speak for buildings, nor do I know if things have changed since this happened (back in 40d), and honestly I don't even recall if my wagon was definitely 'destroyed', though I think it was, when it fell.. But I can assure you that at some point in this games development (two points actually) if your wagon was parked on a frozen lake when it unfroze it and everything on it would sink to the bottom, including any unlucky dwarves.

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« Reply #3706 on: January 24, 2011, 12:36:36 pm »

Fire imp killed workers of my magma industry. Including my armor/weapon smith.
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« Reply #3707 on: January 24, 2011, 10:27:50 pm »

Cave-in based sky defense system + fort rooms directly below the surface = FUN.

Whoops. There goes half the fort. At least we killed those buzzards!

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« Reply #3708 on: January 25, 2011, 11:45:13 am »

Cave-in based sky defense system + fort rooms directly below the surface = FUN.

Whoops. There goes half the fort. At least we killed those buzzards!

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« Reply #3709 on: January 25, 2011, 01:16:30 pm »

discovering the d->b menu.

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

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« Reply #3710 on: January 25, 2011, 04:03:13 pm »

My fort's very first snatcher. Is a dumbass. Was spotted by my militia commander who was about to go training. :D
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« Reply #3711 on: January 25, 2011, 04:27:25 pm »

Just spent the better part of a week ramping up steel production and carefully digging out cotton candy for my first HFS assault.  Spent hours building a nice long maze of levered masterwork steel spike traps. 

Promote an expendable miner to breach the pretty tube, two squads of legendaries at the ready behind the traps.

Nothing. 

I seem to have generated a map without the extra Fun.  I spent two years getting working booze production on a tundra map with exactly one underground murky pool and no trees above the third cavern for that?  Doh.
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« Reply #3712 on: January 25, 2011, 04:44:15 pm »

My best axelord, with skilled armour use and shield use, has just grown attached to...

A cedarwood training axe.

This is not a good day.
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« Reply #3713 on: January 25, 2011, 04:49:06 pm »

Spoiler (click to show/hide)
look for another tube. you breached the wrong one  ;)
ans spoiler that please.
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« Reply #3714 on: January 25, 2011, 05:11:34 pm »

look for another tube. you breached the wrong one  ;)
You still get the screaming and the spawning. Exposing the hollow also exposes the area beneath it.

UristMcMoron, have you tried running dfprospector on the site?
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« Reply #3715 on: January 26, 2011, 08:42:36 am »

look for another tube. you breached the wrong one  ;)
You still get the screaming and the spawning. Exposing the hollow also exposes the area beneath it.

UristMcMoron, have you tried running dfprospector on the site?
no that's not true. yes it exposes the area beneath it, but not all tubes are spawned under. try dumping cats in there, or better yet make a staircase down. let them explore...
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« Reply #3716 on: January 26, 2011, 01:51:35 pm »

Trading with elves, and I somehow amassed an enormous supply of obsidian which, after covering my nobles' rooms with, I made into swords and tried to sell about a million of them to the elves. "Little did he know" obsidian swords are the ONLY non-wood weapon made using wood. At least they haven't declared war on me... yet. They did leave rather huffily, though.

Also, my current fortress area thinks good things are better in twos. Whenever I get a goblin ambush, I get another goblin ambush literally seconds later, to the point I was convinced this was a feature until I learned it wasn't. Okay, no big deal, just set lots of cage traps and put them in the stripper cages.

But when the same principle applies to forgotten beasts who exhale noxious fumes? Fun ensues. And the facepalm factor comes into play after I had walled off so I could be invincible temporarily hold them at bay until I was ready and then immediately dug a tunnel out for diverting the cavern lake into my underground shroom farm, allowing them to just waltz in through the water main. They both struck probably within five minutes of each other. Fortunately, my mighty dwarf militia killed them off with only about 8 deaths total.

Oh, and checking the justice screen and seeing the people being beaten and caged were being punished for vandalism or fist fights, and my Captain of the Guard had a massive jail time racked up for 5 or 6 murders (I'm sure it had nothing to do with beating people with an obsidian sword). Nobility at it's best.
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« Reply #3717 on: January 26, 2011, 04:06:48 pm »

Oh look, fifteen immigrants at once!

-checks stats-

STRAND EXTRACTOR!?!?!?!?!
CLOTHIER?!?!?!?!?!
******* HIGH MASTER ******* TRAPPER?!?!?!?!?!

Oh, novice small animal dissector.

Wait.

NOVICE SMALL ANIMAL DISSECTOR?!?!?!?!?!?!?
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« Reply #3718 on: January 26, 2011, 04:37:54 pm »

I had one high master milk, proficient dyer and talented cheese maker. As one dwarf.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3719 on: January 26, 2011, 08:05:11 pm »

You still get the screaming and the spawning. Exposing the hollow also exposes the area beneath it.
no that's not true. yes it exposes the area beneath it, but not all tubes are spawned under.
I've breached one tube and had them spawn in sight somewhere else. They're probably there, even if you can't see them.
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