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[Vehudur]

Earlier I had a dwarf go get a drink of ale as lava was rushing down the hallway behind him, cutting off his only escape a few seconds later.

It was fast.

Also, booze explosion of epic magnitude.

[Flying Dice]

I'm just going to give a collective facepalm for everyone who has tried to raid my fortress now that I've got 6 legendary marksdwarves with masterwork crossbows watching the main entrance. They apparently shoot so fast that they literally blot out the sun; in a recent ambush there was an area of ~25 tiles that was nothing but flying bolts.

[Samuel]

Guys, I'm not sure how, but I just hit semi-molten rock before hitting any caverns. I... think my staircase missed all three cavern levels.

[dude_ftw@live.com]

Guys, I'm not sure how, but I just hit semi-molten rock before hitting any caverns. I... think my staircase missed all three cavern levels.

Give. Me. Your. Save.

A.K.A. - NO cave plant life growing in your fortress

[Scaraban]

I'm just going to give a collective facepalm for everyone who has tried to raid my fortress now that I've got 6 legendary marksdwarves with masterwork crossbows watching the main entrance. They apparently shoot so fast that they literally blot out the sun; in a recent ambush there was an area of ~25 tiles that was nothing but flying bolts.

WIN

[Samuel]

Guys, I'm not sure how, but I just hit semi-molten rock before hitting any caverns. I... think my staircase missed all three cavern levels.

Give. Me. Your. Save.

A.K.A. - NO cave plant life growing in your fortress

Too late, I found some caverns in an incident which alos involved all my miners limbs being broken. She's in the hospital, unable to stand, full of infection, and suffering severe blood loss. If she survives this thing, it'll be a miracle.

Also of note: I missed all three cavern layers, and the magma sea.

I have no idea how.

[EmeraldWind]

I'm just going to give a collective facepalm for everyone who has tried to raid my fortress now that I've got 6 legendary marksdwarves with masterwork crossbows watching the main entrance. They apparently shoot so fast that they literally blot out the sun; in a recent ambush there was an area of ~25 tiles that was nothing but flying bolts.

WIN

Yeah, I had a hoard of goblins do this to a single dwarf once. He dodged every bolt/arrow, but was ultimately killed when the leader (a lasher) showed up.  The thing that had me face palming though was the dwarf was continuing to dodge the projectiles when he was on the ground almost dead, but still couldn't dodge the dang whip.

[Chaoseed]

I'm just going to give a collective facepalm for everyone who has tried to raid my fortress now that I've got 6 legendary marksdwarves with masterwork crossbows watching the main entrance. They apparently shoot so fast that they literally blot out the sun; in a recent ambush there was an area of ~25 tiles that was nothing but flying bolts.

THEN WE FIGHT IN THE SHADE!

[Sutremaine]

Give. Me. Your. Save.

A.K.A. - NO cave plant life growing in your fortress

It's not that unusual. If you reveal a map, there are usually isolated columns of solid rock from top to bottom. The hard part is getting enough of them to be able to thread a fortress through the stone, and without using dfreveal to deliberately avoid the caverns it's very unlikely you'll dig out a full fortress without hitting one.

If the attraction is not having stray spores in your dining room, then there are a couple of ways around that. First is to avoid soil entirely, second is to floor over all soil tiles to prevent plant growth.

[Sutremaine]

I made a quick and dirty airlock system to get traders running to the depot without having access to my fortress (three military dwarves, yo). It consists of two bridges with the depot between them.

Code: [Select]


 _ b D b _ -> fortress
/#\_/#\_/#\

b = bridge
D = depot

Spot the mistake, folks.

[Jacob/Lee]

They'll just stop at the depot, making the second bridge redundant and useless.

[Kogut]

I made a quick and dirty airlock system to get traders running to the depot without having access to my fortress (three military dwarves, yo). It consists of two bridges with the depot between them.

Code: [Select]


 _ b D b _ -> fortress
/#\_/#\_/#\

b = bridge
D = depot

Spot the mistake, folks.

elite crossbowgoblins? Hidden ambush?

[TomiTapio]

TOO EASY FACEPALM
I'm abandoning after my second year because it's just too simple. Everyone is drafted the military and all are decked out in steel. All surfaces in the liviing quarters are gold, silver, copper and zinc. And finally, the circus was visited, and everyone whooped some clown ass. My squads are holding them at bay and the fort is still continuing as normal.

Congrats, you are ready to graduate into the Genesis mod. With 5-6 hostile civs. Triple siege and then you get an ambush squad in your stairwell at the same time.
Just don't chicken out and "build a wall to stop the six squads of siegers". The enemies have skill, body size and numbers advantage (3 squads on cave crocodile mounts). You have three kinds of steel and traps.

Victory is ten weapon traps -- but no! Some elite foes ignore traps and cast spells. And the traps get jammed with the enemy mounts.

[Garbles]

During my first successful fort, it took about 4 years for a Forgotten Beast to show up. I was super psyched,  because I knew my militia could handle it.It waited politely at the entrance to my fort, so I ordered my dorfs to group up at the other side of the door so they wouldn't trickle in one at a time and get picked off. I leaned back and prepared for the epic battle.

The first one to the room, the newest recruit and by far the least skilled, spots the mandibled flamingo through the door, rushes in, and pokes its brain in with his spear.

Next time I'm sending in the Swordmaster who got attached to a wooden sword.

[Beardless]

I made a quick and dirty airlock system to get traders running to the depot without having access to my fortress (three military dwarves, yo). It consists of two bridges with the depot between them.

Code: [Select]


 _ b D b _ -> fortress
/#\_/#\_/#\

b = bridge
D = depot

Spot the mistake, folks.

Ramps.