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[Tiruin]

A vile force of darkness has arrived!!

"O no, the only thing I have to stop them are rock floodgates!! Burrow the dwarves!!"

"Pull the lever Urist!"

A few minutes later of panicking dwarves, running underground and the shutting of floodgates do I see the coming horde.

A group of axe-goblins and a Jabberer, good thing my floodgates cannot be destroyed in such a way.

Until I saw someone drop some monarch butterfly remains by the middle gate. We couldn't get it closed in time.

[Doomchild-]

same fortress as my previous facepalm:
having lost 2 beekeepers to ambushes already, i decided to try again but this time burrowing my beekeeper and setting some of the hives to only be used for splitting, removing the need to go hunt the map for a new batch of bees. everything went well and eventhough my beekeeping experiment was rather small-scale, my dwarves could enjoy the ocasional mead.
then an ambush of crossbow goblins popped up and started raining death on my pastures and outside farms from higher ground. not to loose any dwarves i made a new burrow which didn't include my outside 'safe' zone (area outside my fortress, used for trading, farming, herding and beekeeping, protected by a heavily trapped entrance tunnel but unfortunatly not as safe as i would like since it's in a valley) having no clear shot at anything, the ambush proceeds to my entrance tunnel and meets its end at my dodge-trap. only lives lost were a stray bunny and a pet cavy sow. life returns to normal, then suddenly "ambush! curse them!" "Urist McBeekeeper has died" zoom to location => other side of the mountain

mental note = setting civilian alert to restrict to a burrow overrides all previous burrowing. removing the restriction does not reset those to their previous settings. Urist McBeekeeper was free to roam the map in search of bees and gobling surprises.

beekeeping suspended until a better solution can be found... no mead for my dwarves.

ps: how big does your beefarm have to be to produce sufficient honey for atleast some consistent mead production? i had 10 hives which produced about 5 honeycombs in the 2 years of active beekeeping? 2 years and 3 dwarves for ~25 units of mead seems hardly worth it.

[Martholomule]

ps: how big does your beefarm have to be to produce sufficient honey for atleast some consistent mead production? i had 10 hives which produced about 5 honeycombs in the 2 years of active beekeeping? 2 years and 3 dwarves for ~25 units of mead seems hardly worth it.

I set up 40 hives with split and collect active and let the dwarves run it from there.  Well, the one beekeeper, I don't assign more than one because the beekeeping bug is a pain in the butt.  Anyway, I don't run out of mead.  I ran pretty well with about 25, but when hives come so cheap, might as well go nuts.  Plus, it's funny to see just how many bees you have in the z-stocks.  Wish i could weaponize them.

[Arbion]

Breached circus for the first time, and the only survivor that remains is the mayor, waiting for his sentence in the hospital bed.. 
I'll never trust my brother again.

[CaptainBadwheel]

Mined adamantine, had the strands extracted, watched in horror as said strands were used to sew up injured dwarfs.

[Necro910]

Mined adamantine, had the strands extracted, watched in horror as said strands were used to sew up injured dwarfs.

Breached circus for the first time, and the only survivor that remains is the mayor, waiting for his sentence in the hospital bed.. 
I'll never trust my brother again.

I believe we have a pattern here.

[Vehudur]

I had a "D" wander into my front gate while I wasn't looking.

[Tlc2011]

A "D"? What

[Vester]

A "D"? What

Either a dragon or an oversized donkey?

[Vehudur]

A "D"? What

Either a dragon or an oversized donkey?

The first one.

A giant, 1,000 year old dragon walked into my front door.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

Breached circus for the first time, and the only survivor that remains is the mayor, waiting for his sentence in the hospital bed.. 
I'll never trust my brother again.

I too, and my mayor was the last one to go as well. I had no idea that I could only mine so much candy before they sent in the clowns.

[Vault Dweller]

Breached the cool place too, except it was on purpose because I got bored of the fortress, yet somehow nothing happened, then because it sounded cool I built stairs to it in an attempt to build future rooms for the nobles of the fortress by walling off and flooring a ceiling over the walls right in the middle of the party. Then all of a sudden, while they were halfway through completing the construction in the cool place, surprise, surprise.

[Vehudur]

Just now a Vile Force of Darkness had a date with one of my masons working on a wall.

[Tlc2011]

Just now a Vile Force of Darkness had a date with one of my masons working on a wall.

Hopefully that won't mean that they are going to have halfdwarf-halfgoblin children

[Mrhappyface]

I Once tried to make a mild sedative syndrome that's spread by cats. However, I forgot a few zeroes when setting the ignition point. So instead of mh dwarves yawning, and then taking a peaceful nap, they scream and run around as their body roasts from the inside out.

This is the kind of sedative we should use for insomniacs and Bay12forums mental institutions 

A typical attempt at Dwarven !!SCIENCE!! . A complete failure at trying to pacify my populace, yet an epic win in creating a new, even more horrific way to die.