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Author Topic: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2208451 times)

Garath

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5325 on: November 14, 2011, 07:00:06 am »

put the switch for the gears of the water pump connecting it to the waterwheel AWAY from that site, preferably somewhere higher that you can always reach, in case of accidental flooding
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5326 on: November 14, 2011, 11:20:16 am »

Why has my livestock been left to wander and starve? At some point I had turned off "active". *fwap!*
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5327 on: November 14, 2011, 02:08:09 pm »

Magma pump outa wood.
It worked, since it used the cold wood.
:P
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MWAHAHA...
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shit, that empties into my dining room...
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5328 on: November 14, 2011, 10:54:12 pm »

Feb, my champion, defeated ten waves of goblins by a cliff.

Happy, she took a step back, and fell over.

GRRRRRRR
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5329 on: November 15, 2011, 09:42:51 am »

Build a bridge. Goblin siege. Raise the bridge. Traped a quarterr of my dwarfs outside
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5330 on: November 15, 2011, 01:38:03 pm »

My first fort:
"Oooh, what does "channel" do?"
I ended up flooding my 1 z-level fort by digging a channel into the mayor's bedroom. While he was sleeping in it.
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Garath

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5331 on: November 16, 2011, 05:20:32 am »

after setting miltairy alert, civ restricted, my mayor who was just elected with the BEST EVER preferences still walks outside into a cyclopse!

edit:
he managed to get away with barely a scratch. Athlethic and fast mayor ftw
« Last Edit: November 16, 2011, 05:23:55 am by Garath »
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5332 on: November 16, 2011, 06:26:59 am »

I´ve had some problems getting the newest batch of useless migrants to the viewpoint of serenity (don´t mind the raised bridge, it just block the harsh winds) in Magictowers.
Feeling smart, I´ve put them into a squad and stationed them in the killzone. Everything went great, they even named their squad "The Lovers of Bridging", which was hilarious.

Then one of my masons died. I may have twenty, but he was one of the good...

I´ve made them the guards.. and I have no prison. -.-
« Last Edit: November 16, 2011, 06:31:56 am by DaftSkunk »
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5333 on: November 17, 2011, 12:35:52 am »

My first fort:
"Oooh, what does "channel" do?"
I ended up flooding my 1 z-level fort by digging a channel into the mayor's bedroom. While he was sleeping in it.

I take it that your attempt to drown your mayor was nothing more than an unfortunate accident?

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5334 on: November 17, 2011, 12:38:23 am »

shit, that empties into my dining room...
 :-X
How the fuck did you manage to do that.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5335 on: November 17, 2011, 01:48:47 am »

shit, that empties into my dining room...
 :-X
How the fuck did you manage to do that.

Very carefully?
More then likely by either not taking into account that magma can path diagonally, by originally intending the room to be used for something else before it was a cistern (maybe a waterfall attempt?)
 or just failing to finish walling it off.

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5336 on: November 17, 2011, 07:53:50 pm »

Embarked on a volcano.Lot of everything dorfs fear including flying creatures.Hole up in mountain and dig for metal.Find metal, smelt metal and then realise I have no anvil........ :'(.First dorf caravan to arrive doesnt have one either.Figured Id wait till next year.Liasion forced to stay indoors because of danger outside, goes nuts and attacks other dorfs.Let him out where he gets mauled by a rampaging donkey belonging to the same caravan he came with.Dont see another caravan of any type for three years.DOH!!!!
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5337 on: November 17, 2011, 07:57:19 pm »

My fort is going well. The miner who made a cave-in on himself has almost recovered, though he refuses to get out of his traction bench/ the CMD refuses to get him out. Then, I see this announcement:

"Ambushers! Curse them!"

And realize I have failed to make any traps. Fortunately, there's a dwarven caravan, and it beats the shit out of the gobbos for me, so I get a bit of goblinite. Unfortunately, the only one with armor got away... everything but its head was broken, but it could somehow walk, so it got off the map.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5338 on: November 17, 2011, 10:24:05 pm »

I made a badass magma moat filled with uptight spikes at the bottom around an idilyc Hawaiian island fortress.
I was planning in making an above-ground green glass fort.

I discovered that a volcano+magma moat meant that the environment was very hot.
Very, very, very hot.

The vegetations in a 70 square radius died off from the radiated heat, and my dwarves all over my fortress eventually went mad from the bad thoughts from the ambiant heat.
Tantrum spiral.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5339 on: November 18, 2011, 02:23:53 am »

My fort is going well. The miner who made a cave-in on himself has almost recovered, though he refuses to get out of his traction bench/ the CMD refuses to get him out.

I had the same problem; if you dismantle the traction bench, that might get him moving again.
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