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Author Topic: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2209192 times)

imperium3

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #4350 on: April 27, 2011, 07:55:26 am »
Long ago I built a flush trap to deal with invading FBs. When activated it sends a large flow of water across the only path tostairs down into the caverns, knocking any aggressors into a deep pit with a bronze colossus at the bottom. Excess water drains into the caverns to stop the pit filling up.

First FB finally shows up, so I activate it: First facepalm - the delay on the trap is enough for the FB to get in unscathed. Second facepalm - my big cavern stairway is very close to the outflow, and on that level, has just an open doorway...

So now I can't reach my excavations in the third cavern layer, because my stairs are flooded :S
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Quote from: Niyazov on May 12, 2012, 11:59:06 am
Socks inspire the same sort of emotions in dwarfs that Helen of Troy inspired in the Achaean Greeks. Although it is said that Helen's face launched a thousand ships, socks have surely launched a million ultimately-fatal Store Owned Item tasks.

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« Reply #4351 on: April 27, 2011, 03:27:49 pm »
I've only played a small time, so not many facepalm moments. But, when i saw my first snatcher. I pressed V and changed ALL my units into military to fend off the siege Alone Unarmed Old Goblin. :D
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #4352 on: April 27, 2011, 06:39:53 pm »
Quote from: Tahlin on April 27, 2011, 03:27:49 pm
I've only played a small time, so not many facepalm moments. But, when i saw my first snatcher. I pressed V and changed ALL my units into military to fend off the siege Alone Unarmed Old Goblin. :D
:P HERP A DERP?
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #4353 on: April 27, 2011, 09:52:00 pm »
A human law-giver decided to chill in my hospital pool for about a year.
Apparently his bath wasn't that great, because he flipped out and killed a brewer with his deadly spittle.
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« Reply #4354 on: April 28, 2011, 12:16:25 am »
Face palming moments...

Probably common, but my biggest one is forgetting to set the raise direction on a bridge when building it.

Had it happen a couple times after specifically deconstructing the previous bridge in that location to rebuild it as a raising bridge.  :-[
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #4355 on: April 28, 2011, 04:32:57 am »
Went to dig a new section for magma smelters, to speed up my steel production.

Failed to notice that the channeled square on one of the spots dug into the wall of my chicken coop.

Managed to contain the magma flood to the bird coop, losing all of my poultry (five different flavors, some 100 animals lost), eggs, a high number of prepared meals, and the spare cages for my trap outside, as well as a miner and two children.
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« Reply #4356 on: April 28, 2011, 11:36:23 am »
Embarked on a cold biome, next to a river. Decided to dam a area of it to myself, after construction , I realised that the river will be frozen all year round.............
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #4357 on: April 28, 2011, 11:51:10 am »
Quote from: synkell on April 28, 2011, 11:36:23 am
Embarked on a cold biome, next to a river. Decided to dam a area of it to myself, after construction , I realised that the river will be frozen all year round.............

apply magma.
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“Well,” he said. “We’re in the Forgotten hunting grounds I take it. Your screams just woke them up early. Congratulations, Lyara.”
“Do something!” she whispered, trying to keep her sight on all of them at once.
Basileus clapped his hands once. The Forgotten took a step forward, attracted by the sound.
“There, I did something. I clapped. I like clapping,” he said. -The Investigator And The Case Of The Missing Brain.

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« Reply #4358 on: April 29, 2011, 04:17:32 am »
Vented excess magma from my used magma piston, in order to retrieve the refilling pumps for other uses.
 Put the outlet vent too close to the water reactor.

!!screw pump!! ensued.
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Quote from: Niyazov on May 12, 2012, 11:59:06 am
Socks inspire the same sort of emotions in dwarfs that Helen of Troy inspired in the Achaean Greeks. Although it is said that Helen's face launched a thousand ships, socks have surely launched a million ultimately-fatal Store Owned Item tasks.

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« Reply #4359 on: April 29, 2011, 04:43:54 pm »
Quote from: FuzzyZergling on April 27, 2011, 09:52:00 pm
A human law-giver decided to chill in my hospital pool for about a year.
Apparently his bath wasn't that great, because he flipped out and killed a brewer with his deadly spittle.

Humans can do that?
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #4360 on: April 29, 2011, 06:33:10 pm »
He was a chameleon demon who convinced the humans he was a god of suicide.
He was actually a pretty awesome dude, one of my most successful adventurers retired in the fortress he was living in.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #4361 on: April 29, 2011, 08:49:31 pm »
Quote from: FuzzyZergling on April 29, 2011, 06:33:10 pm
He was a chameleon demon who convinced the humans he was a god of suicide.
Emo approves.
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« Reply #4362 on: April 29, 2011, 11:35:29 pm »
One of my Many Face Palm moments,

I had a nice fort going, for about three years. I had a good defensive system going, using halls of traps. I also had a decently equipped military, to boot. I hadn't gotten sieged yet, so I was expecting it. It finally showed up, Four Squads of well-equipped Goblins, and a squad of Trolls. I was ready for it, though. I scrambled the military to the area just past the traps (In case anyone got by) Well, the Siege started. And I unpaused. And waited. And waited. Nothing was coming to the gates. I was confused. Then all of a sudden, a got an announcement telling me a peasant died. I zoomed over to it, and it was at this point I face palmed. While digging out stock piles in the soft soil layers, I accidentally dug a hole in my fort. There was a corner exposed to the outside. The entire siege got in. Well, at that point I ordered all the civilian's into a burrow, and charged my military. I it went surprisingly well. I only lost about 5 civilians, and 7 military. I had about 40 Military. The Siege was completely butchered, and my Fort lived on. The end result wasn't so bad, but still, that was one of my biggest face-palm moments.
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« Reply #4363 on: April 30, 2011, 05:00:34 am »
In my tundra fort , ( havnt found any magma yet any way ), dug a 10 z level dodge-me trap pit. After 3 years of sieges while playing fortress defence mod , I realise theres about 60 tigermen , frogmen and goblins in the pit.... And my current population is only 37. And I have no way of getting rid of them  :-[
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« Reply #4364 on: April 30, 2011, 05:18:13 am »
cave them in through artificial cave-ins.
or wait for a FB to appear next to them.

Face palm:
Urist mcswordyandironarmour: Go kill yak COW on top of our walls!
Yak cow: MOOOOoooo
*they ran and ran in circles on top of my freaking walls for half and hour.
*finally cornered her by removing one of my walls sections...
Urist mcswordy: going for a drink boss...
*yak cow escapes...
WTF.
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“Well,” he said. “We’re in the Forgotten hunting grounds I take it. Your screams just woke them up early. Congratulations, Lyara.”
“Do something!” she whispered, trying to keep her sight on all of them at once.
Basileus clapped his hands once. The Forgotten took a step forward, attracted by the sound.
“There, I did something. I clapped. I like clapping,” he said. -The Investigator And The Case Of The Missing Brain.
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