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[Rushmik]

My first dwarf death was pretty facepalm-worthy.

I'd just appointed him to the military and, whilst sparring with the commander, a kobold thief struck! Fath the recruit took off after him enthusiastically- stepping into a 1x1 ditch filled with water. He drowned very quickly.

I facepalmed again when he possessed a farmer, who later started murdering everyone nearby.

EDIT: Forgot about my first ever fortress. Managed to flood the entire thing (the entire thing) because I hadn't grasped the z-levels / water physics idea.

[Ibid Straydrink]

My first dwarf death was pretty facepalm-worthy.

I'd just appointed him to the military and, whilst sparring with the commander, a kobold thief struck! Fath the recruit took off after him enthusiastically- stepping into a 1x1 ditch filled with water. He drowned very quickly.

I facepalmed again when he possessed a farmer, who later started murdering everyone nearby.

EDIT: Forgot about my first ever fortress. Managed to flood the entire thing (the entire thing) because I hadn't grasped the z-levels / water physics idea.

  Ditto.

[The_Fool76]

In one of my earlier forts I built a big deep pit in front of the entrance with a bridge over it.   Later on, I decided to put my main hallway through the bottom of this pit to help ward off cave adaptation.

Then a bunch of goblins showed up, with crossbows. 

Me: Why did they just run up to the edge of the pit and what are they doing? 
Goblins: TARGET PRACTICE!  Wooo Hoo!
Dwarves: Ach! There's a goblin bolt in my nose!
Me: *facepalm*

[MaximumZero]

Got to the circus for the first time ever.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

The tube of cotton candy was only big enough around to be hollow in a 1x1 square. I dug diagonally to it, flooding the circus with magma.  I genned a hugely deep world, and went over 200 z levels down to get there, and was in the middle of building a huge (roughly 50 z-level at the time) castle, with individual aboveground apartments for each dorf, a separate building hall for the depots, a big guild hall, etc etc. I gave up when my fps = 0 and refused to budge.

*facepalm*

[Caprealis]

I was digging out a bedroom area.
Then I clicked dig on a spot which was just under my farm(Two levels down) Soo I thought it was just left over water from  the floor above.. Turns out it was an Aquifer. And it flooded my bedroom area, killing many.


And another time I built a screw system bringing lava up from the near bottom.
Build the lava hold out of the wrong material. Fortress was flooded with lava :/

[Lamphare]

designated mine rather than upramps
cave-ins

reloaded to previous autosave
sigh

[Shootandrun]

Kol, captain of Deadgate's military, just killed another goblin. The adamantine clad legendary +5 dwarf walk toward the goblin bowman...

... And he dodges an arrow and fall into a 5 z-level high pit.
/Facepalm.

(He survived, but yea... After two seasons he is still in coma.)

[Ibid Straydrink]

Kol, captain of Deadgate's military, just killed another goblin. The adamantine clad legendary +5 dwarf walk toward the goblin bowman...

... And he dodges an arrow and fall into a 5 z-level high pit.
/Facepalm.

(He survived, but yea... After two seasons he is still in coma.)

That just makes him all the more epic. Ten years from this day he will awaken to the smell of blood and smoke, lift his cobweb-covered axe from the corner, and rush forth the hack down the invaders and go down in a blaze of glory.

[arzzult]

Human diplomat walks onto map and instantly drops dead (possibly from old age but not 100% sure. There were no combat messages though.) Next summer, the humans siege me.

Face meet palm.

[plisskin]

Mass designating the channeling of a mountaintop to cleave the top off of it = many dead miners. Later I found out that you can mine out each layer and collapse the whole thing using supports.

Channeling out the square of a volcano wall, hoping it'll flood the room I've created to go beneath my forges. The main staircase of the fortress was unblocked. My fortress becomes a new extension of the volcano.

[Ibid Straydrink]

Went to found yet another fortress. All was going well and andy, until I realized that the aquifer noted in the embark screen actually didn't extend to this area, meaning some difficulty with earlier irrigation. Though it would be a stretch, and probably require a couple of years to fill a cistern, the nearby murky pools were enough to get some farms going, and things were looking good. Then a Sasquatch decided to make himself cozy in the cistern. It was a war of attrition, and he won.

[Pukako]

Built high walls.  Built an extension for a wall that I later dismantled, leaving a random floor tile blocked by a wall, about 4 z-levels up.  Removed the wall, set about removing the floor;  accidently built another wall blocking in the mason, but realised in enough time to set him to deconstruct it.

Then; goblin siege - mostly crossbows.  Although everyone else got into the burrow, Urist McHangingMason didn't, and instead became a crossbow piñata.  So my best mason died hanging 4 levels over the outside of the fort.  That sucked.

However, it did lure the gobbos into the line of my magma tap, and Urist was commemorated with the BBQ of 8 goblins directly below him in a blaze of lava.  That melted 4 weapon traps, 3 cage traps, and the guard goat...

Note to self - when planning next magma weapon, pay attention to collateral damages...

[thegoatgod_pan]

Mayor demands: "bonobo bone armor stand in dining room".  He is also a legendary speardwarf. I'm renaming him Mr. Kurtz

[Bohandas]

Mayor demands: "bonobo bone armor stand in dining room".  He is also a legendary speardwarf. I'm renaming him Mr. Kurtz

After the 'Heart of Darkness'/'Apocalypse Now' character?

[strongrudder]

I forgot to change the baby limit to a reasonable level.

My population cap is 120. My actual population currently sits at 164.

There are a total of 51 babies and children... *facepalm*