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[FrisianDude]

Figures. Still, was worth a try.

[Aiyon]

When my dwarf in adventure mode, Vladimir Dentovski (inside joke with a friend), fought his way through a desert and a mountain range to bring an outlaw to justice, taking no damage... only for the outlaw to cut him down before he could swing his sword. *facedesk*

[Excedion]

Fey mood.  Dwarf claims the bowery.  Well, that's nice.  Something more useful than an artifact earing.  Nope--artifact bow.  Next time stay in and make some artifact arrows while you're at it, Urist Mcdouche.

At least its not an artifact fungiwood blowgun. Which is worse since you cant buy blowdarts

[Niccolo]

Fey mood.  Dwarf claims the bowery.  Well, that's nice.  Something more useful than an artifact earing.  Nope--artifact bow.  Next time stay in and make some artifact arrows while you're at it, Urist Mcdouche.

At least its not an artifact fungiwood blowgun. Which is worse since you cant buy blowdarts

I just had that! GRAH AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET A LEGENDARY OUT OF IT.

He spent ages gathering ingredients too, the bastard.

[ZhangC1459]

I didn't check my channeling designations and ended up channeling a lava tube right to my entrance while the humies were trading, and I didn't notice because I was watching dwarves mine out new living quarters until death notifications popped up.  much !!FUN!! was had.

[GreenNight]

I discovered that Dwarf Therapist exists for Linux.

Also, I did bad channeling/digging towards an aquifer and lost a legendary miner, he could go down the channel, but not up.

[Aiyon]

Fey mood.  Dwarf claims the bowery.  Well, that's nice.  Something more useful than an artifact earing.  Nope--artifact bow.  Next time stay in and make some artifact arrows while you're at it, Urist Mcdouche.

At least its not an artifact fungiwood blowgun. Which is worse since you cant buy blowdarts

I just had that! GRAH AND I DIDN'T EVEN GET A LEGENDARY OUT OF IT.

He spent ages gathering ingredients too, the bastard.

I had a mason creature a legendary sword using my fortress' adamantite stocks... he used it to kill off the fortress then suicided.

[Haedrian]

In my latest fort I decided to build a road in the air, so traders would go up the 5 levels or so to my fortress in an awesome manner.

First I lost 7 dwarves when I built a bridge  and tried to continue the constructions - the game notes that the area can be built, but it causes a cavein immediatly - and dwarves sometimes get shoved off the edge for some reason (pressure differences?).

One of the more stupid deaths was when a piece fell, went down 4 stories through the fort and hit a dwarf who was walking underneath trying to engrave an empty room (that's unlucky).

Anyway, part of this awesome road was the barracks in the sky. Because of the silly way they build walls it had no corners. My epic dwarf was sparring, dodged - dodged out of the corner, fell 5 stories and died.

[Table Turning]

I forgot to wall off my pasture, the result was a bunch of badgers throwing a hissy-fit and killing all of my chickens.

[thor82]

I forgot to wall off my pasture, the result was a bunch of badgers throwing a hissy-fit and killing all of my chickens.

wait, chicken must be assigned to the pasture area?!


i also contribute to the thread:
i suggested the game to one of my friends, he contacts me 2 days later stating that the game is too difficult and he stopped when he had to embark the dwarves

[geoduck]

I forgot to wall off my pasture, the result was a bunch of badgers throwing a hissy-fit and killing all of my chickens.

wait, chicken must be assigned to the pasture area?!

I don't think so. I always set up my nest boxes in my dining and/or food storage area and my chickens seem to be fine hanging out there. Just be sure the room's big enough they don't end up attacking each other.

[Niccolo]

wait, chicken must be assigned to the pasture area?!

Nope. It just makes keeping the bloody things in one place easier. It also apparently increases your FPS as there are fewer pathing calculations to do, but if that's confirmed or not I don't know.

[MaximumZero]

wait, chicken must be assigned to the pasture area?!

Nope. It just makes keeping the bloody things in one place easier. It also apparently increases your FPS as there are fewer pathing calculations to do, but if that's confirmed or not I don't know.

Indeed it is, especially if you have a lot of very small pastures. It works for the same reason that chaining or pitting animals works.

[FrisianDude]

Hmm, good idea.

[erissian]

wait, chicken must be assigned to the pasture area?!

Nope. It just makes keeping the bloody things in one place easier. It also apparently increases your FPS as there are fewer pathing calculations to do, but if that's confirmed or not I don't know.

Indeed it is, especially if you have a lot of very small pastures. It works for the same reason that chaining or pitting animals works.

I usually just have a gigantic pasture overlapping my common area for my non-grazing non-butcherable animals. I keep whatever species of fowl I've chosen to breed in a second, more reasonably sized pasture with access to nest boxes.

At any rate, pastures beat pits in that cats don't feel compelled to escape them en masse at the first opportunity.