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[AWdeV]

The bastard's corpse eventually was flushed off the map, which meant I couldn't even loot it. 

That doesn't happen, as far as I know. What does happen is that water flow pushes items around and hides them. You can see them in the stocks screen and your dwarves can interact with them, but you can't see them by examining the tile they're on. Try finding the corpse in the stocks screen, it should be there and zoomable to even if you can't see it yourself.

Really? Good to know. Point is moot now anyway because that was a fort a while ago. Which I abandoned and deleted from saves.


Anyway, I'm working on pumping up water from my caverns into a reservoir quite a while up. All 26 pumps are in place and accessible (although that could do with some improvement) and I have a veritable legion of idlers idling. I noticed there was a small gap in the way I set it up. So I built a wall and moved the pump on the level above a square back. Hole fixed, commence pumping.

Moving that pump created a new hole and damn near drowned a weaponsmith. *smack forehead*

[FrisianDude]

A forgotten beast humanoid of ash came and died without trouble. Almost directly afterwards a hairy nematode came and killed three of the Constructive Savants, a marksdwarf group, and a fourth one was wounded heavily and seems to be bleeding to death. Someone is coming to pick her up though.

[Kogut]

Spoiler: Ops, fire (click to show/hide)

[Telgin]

Glass is magma-safe. Also a lot cheaper and easily acquired than crap-to-melt.

Will have to consider this.  I unfortunately don't have any sand on my map, so I'd have to buy it instead, but that's probably faster and cheaper than melting anvils.

[blake77]

You can also make your pumps out of nether-cap. Since they have a fixed temperature, they should be magma safe.

[Captain Mayhem]

Note to self: Never assign 25+ wardogs to your single, danger room trained, steel clad, legendary, squad leading axedwarf, if the rest of the squad are novices with bronze armor and silver warhammers.

He got a bit blue when half of his dogs died in his first battle. I got a bit blue five seconds later when he berserked and decided to claim one dwarven life for every dog that died.

[Kogut]

He should train army of dogs, trained animals follow their masters without counting as pet.

[Kogut]

It is double post, but...

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

(bug 4856 - http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=4856 )

[Seraphim342]

My most epic facepalm moment so far was learning about the Hidden Fun Stuff on the Wiki before fully understanding what Fun meant.  The description there and my own ignorance led me to believe that it was some kind of epic siege, and more to the point, survivable.  Something this challenging, I imagined, must have great rewards.  So I started mining Adamantium, thinking that a long line of cage traps between the dig site and my fortress would keep me completely safe, as they worked for the 3 Goblin sieges I had been through up to this point... wth predictable results. 

Finals score:
Dwarves 0
Fun 95

[Haspen]

My most epic facepalm moment so far was learning about the Hidden Fun Stuff on the Wiki before fully understanding what Fun meant.  The description there and my own ignorance led me to believe that it was some kind of epic siege, and more to the point, survivable.  Something this challenging, I imagined, must have great rewards.  So I started mining Adamantium, thinking that a long line of cage traps between the dig site and my fortress would keep me completely safe, as they worked for the 3 Goblin sieges I had been through up to this point... wth predictable results. 

Finals score:
Dwarves 0
Fun 95

Welcome to FUN, enjoy your stay quick death

[Seraphim342]

Oh, and figuring out that I didn't have to manually assign each dwarf a bed. 

[person012345]

Discovering Shift + Enter when designating large areas of flooring to be built, even more so because it says it on the screen and I still didn't get it. Pressing enter 100 times individually was a pain in the ass.

[proxn_punkd]

Running DF Prospector and discovering that the only metal ore on my fort's site is sphalerite.

ALL OF THE ZINC.

ALL OF THEM.

Maybe if I make fancy stuff with it I can trade it for bronze/steel.

[kardwill]

Finding out that the thing that messed up every one of my custom animal/prisonner stockpiles in the last 4-5 fortresses was the hidden stones... And I always clear them from the furniture or wood stockpiles, too, so it's not as if I didn't know they mess up the non bin/barrel stocks
*Facedesk*

[FrisianDude]

For some reason a trap triggered to kill animals being taken to pasture. It's wounded quite a lot already (including two lambs and a baby alpaca. ) and a lamb and a stray war horse suffocated due to their wounds.