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[Sus]

Build priorities...

Sure, a bauxite road is fancy, but not exactly worth leaving a gaping hole in your perimeter, as the goblins came to demonstrate.
The entrance to my pastures was left unsecured due to other construction projects and an ongoing tantrum spiral.
Cue trolls and gobbos having the run of the fort and killing everybody and their Stray war dog (tame), too. 

[poisoned_salami]

Building water-filled moat, over-thinking everything, as usual.
Order wall to be constructed to avoid flooding.

Urist McWallbulider cancels haul: trapped behind wall.


Me: *facepalm* "my dwarves are idiots"

[FrisianDude]

nrrrgh killed my two legendary starter miners in two separate cave-ins. Militia commander threw tantrum as the first was a friend and the second her lover.


A few hours later I lost one of my second generation of three miners to a giant bat's stranglehold. :I

[Garath]

Building water-filled moat, over-thinking everything, as usual.
Order wall to be constructed to avoid flooding.

Urist McWallbulider cancels haul: trapped behind wall.


Me: *facepalm* "my dwarves are idiots"

known fact

[rtg593]

Seeing cavy sow and cavy boar on the embark options for 2 points each.

"HEEEEeeyyy, pigs don't graze anymore, lets buy 50 and get a leather, meat, and milk industry running!"

... They starved before I realized a cavy isn't a pig.

[lorem ipsum]

my  legendary fisherdwarf trapped himself on the other side of the river and starved to death. next to him were found about 400 rotten oysters.
dwarves are idiots

[AWdeV]

And so are people who don't notice someone idling for so long they starve to death.

[runlvlzero]

My whole fort got magma crabs once.... =/ Holy shit those guys are amazingly effective killers. Lol they serisouly took my masons out from 10 zlvls down too =/

Now I know why I should:
A. Embark with bauxite
B. Build a bauxite floodgate.
C. Build a bauxite fortification.
D. Build some bauxite bars behind said fortification.
C. Carefully build my magma forges over previously channeled out magma squares.

[tahujdt]

Realized that planepacked dwarves grab all of my ores, Facepalm/R.

[jonsnow]

Digging a channel so I could build a nice water source only to realize I had dug out the place underneath, permanently crippling all my miners from being able to walk

[Sus]

Designating a large area to be channeled out multiple levels at a time = recipe for disaster. 

Best case scenario: The diggers mine themselves in a corner by channeling several levels down in a small section of the channeled area, leaving a large inaccessible tract of land.
Worst case scenario: Urist McPancake, Legendary +3  Miner has been crushed by a cave-in.

[Rolan7]

Science fort - testing max population using vampires.
Vampire identified, build weapon trap - Doh!  Weapon traps can't be hooked to levers.
Build nice spikes, get the vampire on top, decide to try de-stagnating the water I'm going to use.
Mess up horribly, cause flood.
Miner drowns with five of her children no idea where the other four are (I did some modding).
Well at least the vampire is now in 7/7 water on the traps, everything is cool- wait where is he
He wanders in from offscreen.  What.

Either feeding vampires can open forbidden doors now, or he swam up out of his cell.  *facepalm*
Edit: Happened again, and he definitely swam up through the hole!  Time to install a floor grate and hope I have enough water left...

[jhxmt]

My one assigned "do all the food-and-textile-type-stuff" dwarf (it's early in this fort's lifetime) just happened to be walking across a frozen murky pool when it unfroze.  No problem, she was right at the edge, on one of the slopes leading to safety.

Instead, she chose to path/swim DIRECTLY ACROSS THE POOL, and drowned halfway.

Sigh.  I mean, if she hadn't drowned I would have had to kill her anyway for being so bloody stupid, but still.    Now to find a replacement and to make a slab for her.

[AWdeV]

Digging a channel so I could build a nice water source only to realize I had dug out the place underneath, permanently crippling all my miners from being able to walk

You know nothing, Jon Snow.

That said, bummer. Be very, very careful with channeling. If you want to channel over an area that is already dug out, place some walls below the bits you want to channel. Your miners will happily channel away the bits you want gone but they won't fall to their hideous/hilarious deaths.

[Valikdu]

I accidentally cooked everyting. Now I have nothing to plant.

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*THUNDERING FACEPALM!!*