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[Iapetus]

Human caravan decides not to actually depart until dwarven caravan arrives.
Both caravans reach my (5-wide) gate at the same and get stuck.
I deconstruct a 3-wide section of the wall to make way for them.
Two human wagons get out the gap, but before the third makes it through a dwarven wagon tries to get in.
Now both exits are blocked.
:facepalm:

[Count Dorku]

I seem to be getting a lot of these lately. A year and a half of absence + features that weren't in last time I played = chaos.

Note to self: next time, check whether animals in cages still need food *before* cramming them in there.

I'm treating my current fort as about 20% serious effort and 80% "make the mistakes now so you don't make them later" learning experience.

[rtg593]

Not a facepalm yet, but has the makings of one. Legends mode, "The Forgotten Beast Sidel 'The Playful Suckers.""

I can just see the message in fort mode:

"Beware his playful suckers!"

[Corai]

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Nuff' said.

[Sus]

I just recalled an earlier facepalm moment from the era befode .34:

> A vile force of darkness has arrived!
"Red alert! Archers, to positions! Fire the siege engines!"

-siege has left the building-

"Cancel red alert. Archers, stand down and resume training schedule."

-time passes-

> Urist McHauler has been shot and killed.
"What the carp?"
...
"FFFFFFFFUUUUUUU... Ballistas, cease fire! Cease fire!"

Yeah. One brain fart regarding the ballistae = a lot of hospitalized drofs and one fatal case of friendly fire.
The fact that my siege workshop was set on repeat didn't help matters.

Even earlier, I built elaborate ballista towers before checking the Wiki and finding out that ballista arrows can only hit targets on the same z-level as the ballista... 

[Bartinyou]

Urist McLeverPuller has taken great joy in battle lately.

Urist McChiefMedDwarf has been overwhelmed by 20 patients in the hospital.



. . . This what happens when you forget  to pull Urist off a lever before sending your haulers across the bridge to gather goblinite.

[WillowLuman]

Urist McLeverPuller has taken great joy in battle lately.

Urist McChiefMedDwarf has been overwhelmed by 20 patients in the hospital.



. . . This what happens when you forget  to pull Urist off a lever before sending your haulers across the bridge to gather goblinite.

They can get that thought if they operate a trap lever?

[Bartinyou]

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Urist McLeverPuller has taken great joy in battle lately.

Urist McChiefMedDwarf has been overwhelmed by 20 patients in the hospital.



. . . This what happens when you forget  to pull Urist off a lever before sending your haulers across the bridge to gather goblinite.

They can get that thought if they operate a trap lever?

No it wasn't an actual in game thought, but I hope one of the 20 or so dwarves that was sent to the hospital made sure to give him a piece of their mind when they were released.
They can get that thought if they operate a trap lever?

[Cobaldunderpants]

I was so excited. For the first time I actually went and mined up some Adamantine. I extracted the strands and made the wafers. All told I only was able to obtain about 28 pieces of raw adamantine from my map.

Not once did I think to forbid the materials.

Nor did I think twice when one of my dwarves was struck by a fey mood.

It wasn't til I saw the little bastard dragging my precious adamantine back to his workshop that my folly hit me. I hoped that he wouldn't finish the project. I hoped that when he needed those cut gems I didn't have that he would go berserk and I would have my guards slaughter him for touching my precious metals. Unfortunately I forgot that I had not sold all my cut gems to the merchants. He began his project using the cut gem, 3 raw adamantine blocks, and 1 adamantine wafer.

Alright, maybe he'll make something cool. He is in a craftdwarf shop, maybe he'll make something I can use?

He made a lute. Not just any lute either. It was a lute depicting a dragon moving into the desert I had settled on year 1 of my world. A dragon that was already dead. It was if the game was mocking me with an adamantine lute about the dragon that would never come for me to capture. I am now going to find a way to drop this dwarf into magma.

[Garath]

serious, I'll make an adventurer to come steal that lute and be the most amazing bard/adventurer ever.

[floundericiousWA]

I was so excited. For the first time I actually went and mined up some Adamantine. I extracted the strands and made the wafers. All told I only was able to obtain about 28 pieces of raw adamantine from my map.

Not once did I think to forbid the materials.

Nor did I think twice when one of my dwarves was struck by a fey mood.

It wasn't til I saw the little bastard dragging my precious adamantine back to his workshop that my folly hit me. I hoped that he wouldn't finish the project. I hoped that when he needed those cut gems I didn't have that he would go berserk and I would have my guards slaughter him for touching my precious metals. Unfortunately I forgot that I had not sold all my cut gems to the merchants. He began his project using the cut gem, 3 raw adamantine blocks, and 1 adamantine wafer.

Alright, maybe he'll make something cool. He is in a craftdwarf shop, maybe he'll make something I can use?

He made a lute. Not just any lute either. It was a lute depicting a dragon moving into the desert I had settled on year 1 of my world. A dragon that was already dead. It was if the game was mocking me with an adamantine lute about the dragon that would never come for me to capture. I am now going to find a way to drop this dwarf into magma.

Eh...waste of a legendary craftsdwarf....burrow him with a pile of stone and a workshop, making crafts until he drops.

[FuzzyZergling]

After two or three years of nice, orderly fishing, all my fisherdwarves suddenly started jumping off the local waterfall.
I really need to remember to floor those over...

[Scruffy]

I set a kiln to produce porcelain statues and forgot all about it. By the time I noticed I had 300 statues filling my stockpiles an this is where everything started going heading towards FUN.. You see, all my rooms were 1x6 andnaturally I decided to start placing a statue in each room in my fort (have to keep those smelly buggers happy since my minions tend to have their livespans a "bit" on the short side. (A mason producing coffins around the year..)) Around a year later I started wondering why my bookkeeping was a bit sketchy, farms unplanted and forges not producing anything. Only after that I noticed that there were a few too many skeletons in my livingquarters.. I had forgotten that the little furballs can't walk past the statues so I had trapped 30 dwarves in their rooms (out of 80) and this includes most of my furniture haulers. I lost most of my useful dwarves and was left with a bunch of furnace operators and nobles.

I have had a few occasions when my forts population has dropped to 1-2 dwarves but the most face palm moment was when my only remaining survivor of a "slight" HFS accident (note to self: never place your candy tube floodgate lever next to your main gate lever.) Urist Mcmechanic managed to get himself trapped in his own cagetrap.

Recently I tried breeding giant eagles which didnt seem to produce any offspring. A while later I noticed my baron munching on a giant eagle egg roast.

[SixOfSpades]

It wasn't til I saw the little bastard dragging my precious adamantine back to his workshop that my folly hit me.

Fun fact: You can forbid materials that the moody dwarf has already carried to his workshop. He'll check his list, see that he still needs X quantity of Y, and go collect some more. This might only work while he's still collecting ingredients, though.

[mrhanman]

My very first fort embarked in a location where water froze in the winter.  I had no idea how to find water, and I watched helplessly as my dwarves died of thirst one by one.  The last to go was a child, scared and alone.