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[Corona688]

I had 6 dwarves got driven down a channel and off an 80-z cavern cliff by draining water because they were trying to build coffins for dwarves that'd preceded them down, out of rocks from the channel of death.  That's over a quarter of the fort's population at this point.  One even took a freaking pick with him.

[alesia]

Embark on a 'Deep Metals, Shallow Metals, Flux' location, extinct civilization.  Result:  Lots of tetrahedrite and colbaltite.  Oh joy.  Plenty of marble and limestone, though, and sand and fire clay available too.  Not so bad, except from a weaponry and armoring standpoint.

Alright.  Plan B.  Humans will come soon.   Let's make some junk to trade for bronze whatsits.  ... no humans.

Alright.  Plan C.  Goblinite.  ... but all the goblins have is copper and leather, too.

FINE.  Shiny bluemetal it is.

(Ironically, I set metal frequency to 1000, down from 2500 stock.  At 500 I was finding all sorts of goodies in every layer, so I bumped rarity back up a little.  There must be a sweet spot somewhere in between...)

[EmeraldWind]

(Ironically, I set metal frequency to 1000, down from 2500 stock.  At 500 I was finding all sorts of goodies in every layer, so I bumped rarity back up a little.  There must be a sweet spot somewhere in between...)

I've seen a representation of the mineral occurrence as a graph. It seemed to be exponential in growth. Kind of like:
y = x^2
1 = 1^2
4 = 2^2
9 = 3^2
16 = 4^2

The higher x gets the more dramatic the increase in y... with the exception here being x needs to get smaller or something.

So it may be less of a sweet spot and more just your standard exponential growth being a lot more than the intended reaction.

EDIT: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Advanced_world_generation
The graph is on this page.

[toue]

Tanner just got a fey mood, takes over his shop and I have no idea what to expect because I don't do much tanning.
Few minutes later "Urist Mcdumbass has created Stigazbal, an elephant leather buckler!"

[FuzzyZergling]

And that's bad why? It's much better than a useless loincloth or skirt.

[MaximumZero]

I just got an ash flute, a turtle bone crown, and a cat leather earring. Blah. At least you guys can use yours.

[Brandedahall]

I got a pig tail fiber bikini. :|

srsly, what would a dwarf look like in a bikini :/

[Serrational]

srsly, what would a dwarf look like in a bikini :/

Such things are barely imaginable by mortal men, as when a dwarf would require to look alluring is.... difficult. The spores just drift around naturally. No encouragement needed.

[George Dorn]

One of my first embarks, I started to wonder if I could mine out the base of a hill to remove any access to the top. Everything was going fine and then all of a sudden there was a gigantic crash, dust clouds everywhere, and four dead dwarfs.

I wasn't even aware that the game had cave-ins, haha whoops.

[toue]

And that's bad why? It's much better than a useless loincloth or skirt.

Now I'm worried some stupid recruit is going to decide that a leather shield is the best way to protect himself, and I won't notice until his guts are all over the barracks.

[Eoganachta]

srsly, what would a dwarf look like in a bikini :/

Such things are barely imaginable by mortal men, as when a dwarf would require to look alluring is.... difficult. The spores just drift around naturally. No encouragement needed.

I'm imagining huge balls of beard with hands and feet. No wonder the kittens adopt dwarves; they think they're just big balls of string!

[Thorus]

I just send my dwarves to clean up the last goblin ambush which died in my upright spear trap. I forgot to cancel the "Pull the Lever - R" job. Now I have lost some dwarves to my own stupidity. *facepalm*

[FuzzyZergling]

And that's bad why? It's much better than a useless loincloth or skirt.

Now I'm worried some stupid recruit is going to decide that a leather shield is the best way to protect himself, and I won't notice until his guts are all over the barracks.

But, shield materials are all identical for the purposes of blocking. The only difference material makes is weight, and ability to bash things.

[toue]

Alright so not long ago I caught a minotaur in a cage trap, almost as soon as he entered the map. After a bit I let him do some arena combat to help clean out my massive stocks of caged goblins. The very first time I let them all loose I forgot to lock the doors, but everyone got caught again in the traps I set outside the arena. Not long after that I got irritated with my dorfs for being too retarded and abandoned and reclaimed. When I returned I realized the minotaur had freed itself, and was currently mauling things in the caverns. Before long I had sealed him in well enough, and forgot about him again until I had resorted everything into stockpiles and such. Well when I finished I wanted to recapture the minotaur, so I set up a few cage traps outside the wall I was having him reenter the fort through. I am then distracted by a few ambushes, which manage to kill a few dwarves. When I'm finished with them, I go back to find that while the cage traps were set up fine, the minotaur had just walked on by them, and was slaughtering my fortress from the bottom up. My military, a bit the worse for wear from the ambushes completely failed to stop him, and he eventually caused my first total fort kill.

I'm reclaiming again and I swear I will capture that son of a bitch, and he is not getting loose again.

[Montague]

Well, mine is a bit different.

So, my first time experimenting with macros, I recorded a lengthy session of an adventurer picking up a big stockpile of rocks, and throwing them back down. So my guy was sitting in some random woods, in sneak-mode, and I played my macro. It went ok, albeit much slower then just doing it manually, then I see a single approaching from the side. "No problem, I'll just cancel the macro and go smash this wolf".

Nope. The macro keeps playing, no matter what I do. The wolf attacks and displaces me to a grassy patch. Since it has "a" in the macro, over and over, I kept getting the announcement page coming up, blinking, while squeezing in commands to kill the damn wolf or something, which, in the process I managed to set fire to all the shrubs around with my arrow-key mashing to chase and kill this wolf while this damn macro is spamming other key commands.
So, I eventually get caught in the fires the macro was setting and I get "you are melting x59" before I ever kill the wolf and I die. That doesn't stop the macro, which is still hitting "t,t,enter" and on exiting advent mode, it selects my favorite fort save, which I'm suddenly looking at. Struggling to stop the madness, I manage to abandon the fortress.

Turns out I abandoned fortress on the only good save of a long-going project that set me back two weeks or so in IRL gameplay.

I manged to exit DF while the macro kept spamming "t,t,enter".

Not sure if that counted as "Fun" or not, but it certainly punished the crap out of me for inexperience, which is fun, I think.