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[Elisebambi]

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=89084.0

[Urist_McArathos]

I dammed a river, and was rerouting it into my fortress to function as a waterfall.  I dug a drainage tunnel that went to the map edge, had pressure breaks both where the waterfall started AND flowed into my wells, grates on every access level, the works; I finally had the water all welled up and ready for release, PULL THE LEVER I SAY!

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Oh, shit.  I forgot to re-link the floodgate to that lever when I had to move it.

[Entih]

Facepalm part 1:  I spent a few minutes modding the Human civ to allow fortress mode.  An hour or two later of sissy surface dweller building I realize there are no nobles or positions in the nobles screen.  I forgot to put them in.

Facepalm part 2:  I put the nobles in, why aren't they showing?  Wait... I don't have to build the world with them already in the civ file, do I?  Of course, building another world with that civ file worked.  A few hours of work down the drain, but at least I am building proper now.

[Fahgo]

Read through the Tundra/Glacier thread and, inspired, preceded to create a new world. Looking around the glacier I discovered a volcano. Like any good dorf decided that was the best place to embark. set up my starting seven as per this post: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=88543.msg2454597#msg2454597

I paid special attention to the note to bring lots of fuel/bitumous coal. I brought 20 units of the stuff.

It was only after I built my first magma smelter I realised "I really didn't need to bring that bitumous coal did I...". Flux stone would have been better as I have plenty of Hematite. *sigh* 

[charred_gp]

In a recently-started fort of mine, I had breached the caverns early to get a tree farm and underground pasture available as quickly as possible. Since there weren't any beasts I could see down there, I let my woodworker/tree cutter cut down some nearby trees. Then, right after the second migrant wave, a giant iguana FB showed up in the caverns. "No problem," I thought. "He can't fly, so the up/down stairs won't be open to him." I forgot that there was one up stair for my woodcutter. Fun ensued.

[Agent_Irons]

When I ordered my two-member military to attack prisoners on the top of a wall with steep drops on both sides. My military is pancaked.

[franti]

All you noobs have pretty good screwups, but I recently usurped George Costanza for the title "lord of the idiots." Observe:
I spent two years building a 40 z-level deep pit trap with two bridges over them and a pillar in between that supported a pressure plate that did...fun stuff. The pit had a magma cleanup system, and then a draining system for the magma so it would return to its grated-cistern that led to a volcano and leave the goblinite behind. It was a masterful piece of dorfen engineering.
On the LAST z-level, after the bottom bridge that covered the magma, I accidentally dug through a support pillar when I hit d-h and didn't take the time to un-designate the pillars. The magma-covers collapsed, killing 3 Legendary Miners, and the bridge above collapsed. The debris killed an Adept Mechanic as he was climbing back up a staircase from the bottom, and the colapse itself killed a Grand Master Woodcutter who was getting wood, and a Legendary Gem Setter who had just finished making an artifact and carrying it back across the bridge: InkyShield, a Black Diamond Window.
The magma pit was connected to an underground volcano, so everything sunk to the semi-molten rock.

Bow and pay tribute to your king! For I am franti, Dwarf Lord of the idiots!

[jc6036]

That last part makes up for your n00b comment. I have not had any face palms recently. . . .

[Urist_McArathos]

All you noobs have pretty good screwups, but I recently usurped George Costanza for the title "lord of the idiots." Observe:
I spent two years building a 40 z-level deep pit trap with two bridges over them and a pillar in between that supported a pressure plate that did...fun stuff. The pit had a magma cleanup system, and then a draining system for the magma so it would return to its grated-cistern that led to a volcano and leave the goblinite behind. It was a masterful piece of dorfen engineering.
On the LAST z-level, after the bottom bridge that covered the magma, I accidentally dug through a support pillar when I hit d-h and didn't take the time to un-designate the pillars. The magma-covers collapsed, killing 3 Legendary Miners, and the bridge above collapsed. The debris killed an Adept Mechanic as he was climbing back up a staircase from the bottom, and the colapse itself killed a Grand Master Woodcutter who was getting wood, and a Legendary Gem Setter who had just finished making an artifact and carrying it back across the bridge: InkyShield, a Black Diamond Window.
The magma pit was connected to an underground volcano, so everything sunk to the semi-molten rock.

Bow and pay tribute to your king! For I am franti, Dwarf Lord of the idiots!

The King is a fool!  Long live the King!

[MrAnderson]

i built a 8 double-store tall house with well-system over 7 years, only to discover the wells froze shortly in winter...

next winter i turned temperature off, as i wanted to build a big city without troubles

[Niccolo]

My new fortress was up and going, the log palisade around my hole in the ground coming along nicely.

However, I was busy trying to get through the aquifer, so I set up the whole dirt-drop system... and only belatedly realised that aquifers can span more than one layer.

[franti]

Bow and pay tribute to your king! For I am franti, Dwarf Lord of the idiots!

reminded me of the thing in AOE 2:
'all hail! king of the losers!'

I know exactly what you mean.

[Kay12]

Already referenced to this in the Note to Urist thread BUT ...

The Fort was expecting its first caravan. Farms were up and running, and some crops had been harvested. A still was supposed to churn out drinks.

"So, how's it going?"

NO BOOZE? WHAT?

By boozemaker was on a break. I had ordered a few spare ones, but they were all busy doing other things. Finally, the brewer decides to get back to work. He brews a single drink, drinks it himself and returns to the meeting hall for another break.

[lazygun]

In my current fort I have a system for obisidianising a portion of the magma sea, in order to safely mine out the candy that's poking up through the magma.

I had floors full of down-stairs to let the water through to the lower levels. I thought, this looks untidy and started to channel it out.

Then I noticed the lowest level had aquired a rather bright red colour. Yup, I've channeled away the walls holding back the magma.

OK, it isn't the end of the world: I can re-obsidianize and re-excavate, but such a waste of time.

[MaximumZero]

Was modding in using Oil for fuel (stupid no coal biomes.  ) and forgot to make the container part of the reaction. 

Happily, I can now use various plants (including corn!) to make oil for fuel. ^_^