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[Garath]

booze! booze! BOOZE! Don't let them drink water untill the fish get out to piss first.Shame on you.

[FuzzyZergling]

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. 

As a general tip, you should never have so little booze that your dwarves need water to survive.

[mrhanman]

booze! booze! BOOZE! Don't let them drink water untill the fish get out to piss first.Shame on you.

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. 

As a general tip, you should never have so little booze that your dwarves need water to survive.

Of course, I realize this now, but as I said - this was my first fort.  But it still got me hooked! 

[Goodguy3]

When I found out Dwarves automatically claimed bedrooms. So much time wasted painstakingly assigning each dwarf to a bedroom. . .

[SRD]

Wait... they automatically claim bedrooms? WHAT?

[Reudh]

They do, as long as the room is available and defined as a room.

[Kogut]

When I found out Dwarves automatically claimed bedrooms. So much time wasted painstakingly assigning each dwarf to a bedroom. . .

And it if free vampire detection system! (bug #0005642: vampires never claim bedrooms)

[Garath]

don't think that is a bug... "hey, Urist McNotavamp, don't you ever sleep?"

[Kogut]

don't think that is a bug... "hey, Urist McNotavamp, don't you ever sleep?"

See http://www.bay12games.com/dwarves/mantisbt/view.php?id=5642

predicted in this post ("it is possible to find vampires by creating bedrooms, without assigning. Wait. Dwarves without claimed ones are vampires")

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=84398.msg2822541#msg2822541 [^]

reply from Toady ( http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=84398.msg2922258#msg2922258 [^] ):

"I don't think I handled that. Keep 'em coming, he he he. It'll be an arms race for a while as we patch up stuff I didn't cover."

[McFlow]

After a goblin ambush, I decided to let my group of marksdwarves go out and hunt. When another ambush appeared, I ordered my dwarves upon the battlements, ready to strike the goblins from afar. But... Because I forgot to disable the hunting labor for them, they only stood there to charge at the goblins and swing at them with their crossbows. This changed the battle from a sure win into a "lose half your fortress and try to stabilise afte the resulting tantrum spiral". Luckily, when I set all of my dwarves to engraving/food/booze/coffin production, everything stabilized... I have yet to reassign the labors of my 40 dwarves though. The horror!

[stormyseasons]

When I realised the werebadger affliction was spreading through my fort because the marksdwarf squad was meleeing the afflicted when they transformed. >.<

Fortunately, somehow the fortress inhabitants e.g. wardogs, pets, tame animals, fellow citizens.... can determine who is afflicted or not. Cue a spam of interrupted messages...

[Funiculus]

I had a run-in with the most ferocious dwarf-eating monster I've ever seen in the game.  Yes, I've held off forgotten beasts, dragons, hydras, creatures too horrible (or typo'd) to describe!

But this...this was a new horror beyond words.  I lost 38 dwarves, 2 caravans; and it ate the better part of 2 goblin sieges.

I speak of course, of the dreaded Dire Waterfall!

I had built my settlement into a mountain side along where two rivers joined into one.  One winded through a valley, the other formed a tall tall waterfall and cut a picturesque canyon.  For some reason, shortly after my first siege; despite six wells supplied by water in their dining rooms and a plethora of booze, both foreign and domestic; it became the "in" thing to race across the map and try to drink water from a particular square of the waterfall; the last one before the edge, of course!

Invariably, this lead to the dwarf being pushed over the edge, and falling to a horrible drowning death.  Imagine my horror as I saw a near continuous line of dwarves; some carrying their infants, racing to try some of that fresh mountain waterfall water!

Burrows, designated drinking areas, strict adherence to zones; no sir!  Nothing was going to keep these dwarves from getting a drink or dying trying...well, all died trying.  Before this silly internet fad could empty my fortress, I managed to lock my dwarves and that seemed to break the cycle.  I sent builders to wall off the waterfall.  I lost 6 builders as they'd go try to drink after placing their stones, but it was enough.  I left a door on the far side locked.

Like clockwork, the trolls smash that door and the goblins all run to that same square; pitching them off to their deaths.  So I guess it's not all bad.  I'm in the middle of engineering a way to get to the sweet sweet supply of bodies and loot at the base of the waterfall.

Besides fortress-killing waterfalls; this has been one of the most vicious monsters I've encountered yet.

Easily on par with the Dread Gazeebo...

[WillowLuman]

They're not trying to drink, they're trying to cross at the shallowest point. That's dwarf logic for you.

[Funiculus]

All of them had the "Drink" status thing; but you're probably right; that was the shallowest point.  Sometimes I hate dwarves.  And cats.  Actually, I always hate cats.

[xdarkcodex]

All of them had the "Drink" status thing; but you're probably right; that was the shallowest point.  Sometimes I hate dwarves.  And cats.  Actually, I always hate cats.

Umm yer

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It seems they hate you too haha.