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[Cotes]

A hundred per dwarf. I eventually managed to fix it at least momentarily by assigning them in separate stacks of hundred instead of just changing the amount of the original (in the military/ammunation menu).

For some reason they didn't recognize more than a small fraction of the bolts as theirs. I suspect it might have to do with the fact I had forbidden some of the metal ones (which they presumably had claimed for the squad) and the squad didn't know how to deal with that.

[Adramelech]

One of my worst was definitely realizing the quick movement you could get from holding shift when moving around the map.
Boy, did that ever save time with tree designating.

[Flying Dice]

Having a legendary axedwarf die to a human lasher with a silver whip...  >.<

[veok]

Abandoning two badlands embarks needlessly.

Reason?

There's no trees on the map -- clearly, the map is bugged, so let's abandon and start again.

...in a badlands.

With "Trees: NONE" in big red letters at the top of the embark screen. >.<

[bobhayes]

With "Trees: NONE" in big red letters at the top of the embark screen. >.<

"What idiot chose this location?"
(whisper whisper whisper)
"Oh. Well. Right then. Let's find the caverns."

[Sutremaine]

Made some hand-sized elbow spurs for a creature and forgot to make them out of anything. By the time I realised this blatant error I'd boosted the spurs considerably to get more kills from the arena mode combatants.

The resulting fountain of limbs was quite amusing to watch, even if it was over as quickly as a fireworks display.

[Kit temple]

I once released a cage animal, A whole mess of them during an invasion..Good news was The miner caste surrived!,Bad news being i had to cave in the only entrance and now there trapped around groud with...something from the pits of the world..*cue dramatic music where dwarven miners are fighting to the death!"

[PCpaste]

The first few weeks of playing DF when I didn't know about how to make drinks, and everyone was going on tantrums because they didn't get their wine.

Also when I got two years int oa fortress and forgot that I started to make a farm. Yeah, that was... That was.

[Samuel]

I just spent... I don't know... six months to a year with over half my dwarves burrowed inside my fortress after an ambush. I didn't realize until the next ambush that the burrow was still there. The migrants who arrived afterwards were the only ones allowed outside. That kind of explains how freaking unproductive this year was.

[Genoraven]

I recently found out that the upright cotton candy stick hidden in certain maps shows up on the screen for linking upright spears to levers...

Stop that. No more clown references.

Bit late for that, old chap. clownite has entered the DF lexicon, and it has stuck

What if i said please?

[iyaerP]

I just embarked to a terrifying desert with only one military dorf.

He and the miner are the only survivors of the starting seven, both having a tantrum contest in the depths while the dozen skeleton camels chase my geese around the map.

[Dutchling]

I just embarked to a terrifying desert with only one military dorf.

He and the miner are the only survivors of the starting seven, both having a tantrum contest in the depths while the dozen skeleton camels chase my geese around the map.

Why is that a facepalm moment? seemspretty natural to me

[EmeraldWind]

Well, this one had me facepalming a good bit. My Duke decided to throw a tantrum. I decided to figure out why. Apparently, he was traumatized by a lesser's burial arrangements. ... This was odd because I had been very careful to prevent this from happening... Well, I guess not careful enough... It turns out that one of my mass graves has an artifact coffin in it valuable enough to be a stand alone Royal Tomb. 

[Naryar]

Well, this one had me facepalming a good bit. My Duke decided to throw a tantrum. I decided to figure out why. Apparently, he was traumatized by a lesser's burial arrangements. ... This was odd because I had been very careful to prevent this from happening... Well, I guess not careful enough... It turns out that one of my mass graves has an artifact coffin in it valuable enough to be a stand alone Royal Tomb.

Nobles are useless, period.

Well not actually useless since my baron still mines, engraves and even fights in the military... but he was less annoying as expedition leader, you know.

[Samuel]

A facepalm of relief. The Goblin Civil War going on lead to 3 ambushes at once lasting about ten seconds. The only Goblin who eventually tried to attack got snapped up in a cage trap.