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[noob]

i had 3 sieging races siege me at the same time (mod). i put the lever that would drop the enemies down onto my upright spikes on repeat. right as they stepped on the bridge urist mcfatty decides it would be the perfect time to get food and stop pulling the lever. i lost the entire fort:'(

[GamerKnight]

Whenever I have an important defense lever I set two or three dwarves to it, all in burrows that only overlap at the lever so they won't socialise.

[Iados]

discovering you can remove stockpiles with p->x

FACEWALL

[GamerKnight]

Tee hee.

[JujuBubu]

I earned a good slap to my forehead today,

I was piercing an aquifer and the pumping equipment was based in a round room I channeled, because I want to build a central staircaise right there,
and a tower on top of it.
I pump the water back into the aquifer through a walled of ring between the pumps and the tower walls.

Then I found out there is a second layer.
So I expanded the area to pump. To save wood I only used a row of pumps next to a 1 tile wide channel and pumped the water into a hole back into the aqiver.
It worked well for the first two rows. After I set up the third row of pumps and started pumping nothing happened.
The water dropped to six and sloshed around a bit.
So I searched. Am I pumping in the wrong direction ?
No.
Does it flow back somewhere ?
No.
Maybe there are not enough pumps ..
Order 5 more .. no
Order 10 more .. still no
what the heck ..

Water flows through diagonal edges .. right ?
Now what if I remove those three diagonal edges ..
Check ..
Thats it .. the first row worked fine, it was directly connected to the hole
The second row worked fine, because I used the pumps to irrigate my farming area, which had a outlet of its own ..
The third row did now work .. because the water did not flow fast enough through the diagonal gap to allow the pumps
to pump away the water from the aqiver. *facepalm*
I channeled away the three tiles that "blocked" the flow and 10 minutes later I discovered magnetite

[Vorthon]

Taken to building forts into cliffs that dive straight into cliffslakes. I was going to build the workshops below the waterline, but I accidentally dug into the lake when digging a hallway. If I had been sitting at a desk at the time, I probably would have *HEADDESKED*.

edit: Cliff diving straight into cliffs? *facepalm*^3

[Zrk2]

When dwarves remove constructions, they just let the blocks fall. 40 wasted obsidian blocks later my temple to Armok is going rather slowly.

[somebody]

smirking when the first invaders come to my fortress in the after a massive trade and then finding out that i never built the west side of the wall.

[Pukako]

Setting two squads of marksdwarves on the Mountain Titan, to find out I had no bolts anywhere in the fort...

[JacenHanLovesLegos]

My dwarves are following the traders in a hode for their medical supplies. *Facepalm*

[Spork The Slightly Insane]

I built an execution tower. I forgot to put a roof on it. The first Megabeast to attack could fly.

[DStecks]

Okay, I just had one.

I was using my drowning chamber like usual to kill some troglodytes.  I throw the lever to release them from the cages, throw the lever to open the floodgates, watch them drown for a moment, and then go and do other things. 

Until I get an announcement "Urist McBroker cancels drink: interrupted by troglodyte."

Apparently after the room filled up, they swam out the ceiling, along the channel, and out through a lake I had accidentally connected, but hadn't thought it would cause problems. 

Granted, it looks like the only injuries will be broken toes on the broker, but still.  Going to have to find a way to fix that particular problem...

You attempted to drown amphibious creatures and the possibility of this not working never occurred to you?

[Leonard DeVir]

Sigh. One slight mistake, so small yet so hot.

I accidentially built a screw pump in a way that it faced in the wrong direction, assigned an operator, left for coffee. When I came back, Ive seen the whole z-level..flooded with magma, my operator still happily pumping away *double facepalm*

I assigned him off, he wanted to run away and was caught in magma *brutallity facepalm*

[Silent_Thunder]

Well I had rigged an intricate system to provide a lava moat to every room. Unfortunatly there are certain rooms that should not have lava moats. Namely danger room, and daycare rooms.

[Serrational]

Just started building up a military. Just remembered no goblins live near here, this is a serene area and as long as I stay away from the carp-infested rivers, I'm fine.