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[lazygun]

The new hauling system still catches me out. I built a tallow stockpile next to my soapmaker shop and ordered it to take from my kitchen. Much easier than turning on all the tallow options in the settings for food->glob. Then I wondered why there was a purple cloud coming from my kitchen and prepared meals worth 10K dwarfbucks were being left to rot.

D'oh! Once you make a workshop give to a particular stockpile, the workshop will never give to any stockpile that isn't on the list.

[floundericiousWA]

I decided at this point I'd better give it up as a bad job all around and try again elsewhere.

Bravo, sir!  It takes epic to make epic.

[Blackadder]

I just started a new fort and I got this migrant. I think he's going to be the leader of my military
Also, I'm using masterwork, and he brought a speargolem D:

[WillowLuman]

Modded in giant black lizards that assimilate with their bites. Then I forgot I did that and started a fortress.

[Devling]

So, they bite a dwarf and he becomes a black lizard?

[WillowLuman]

Yes. A sort of Lizard mini-apocalypse

[foop]

Courtesy of the shoddily constructed minetrack that gets rid of the rock I'm not planning to build stuff out of, I've just been introduced to lava mist.

Before, I didn't know lava mist existed.  My education has been short, brutal, and messy.

[Kumquat]

So I set up this little bit of cart track for the above-entrance-level mining operation of limonite with plan to expand it way down to the magma sea later. A couple stockpiles and so on.

Then I noticed the idiot dorfs were wheelbarrowing rocks up from everywhere in the fortress, generally as far away as they could find, just to run them through the cart track. I think some were running down 100 zlevels to the magma forges to grab more boulders.

A few brutal realizations:

- Burrows don't limit stockpiles worth squat, they only screw up workshop materials. *facepalm*

- Thus, outside workshop/stockpile supply chain, there's no way to limit where a stockpile grabs its materials, and I didn't want to use burrowed haulers since I'd forget them and they'd to starve in the quarry. *facepalm*

- Yeah there's a goblin ambush and elf-trader yaks decide to wander around randomly (I guess dfhack pasturizing was the culprit) and out of the 100+ adult migrants there's NOT EVEN ONE MEDICAL DORF and hauling socks and fishing are far more important than dragging a miserable bleeding footless unconscious militia dwarfs to hospital. *facepalm*

- The furnace operators were carrying limonite boulders from the quarry stockpile all the way down to the magma forges rather than using the stockpile on the next z-level up. *facepalm*

... But I guess these don't really count for the intent of this thread. The only minor facepalm of my own was when I realized I had two levers linked to the outer trading airlock bridge and none to the inner.

[floundericiousWA]

Courtesy of the shoddily constructed minetrack that gets rid of the rock I'm not planning to build stuff out of, I've just been introduced to lava mist.

Before, I didn't know lava mist existed.  My education has been short, brutal, and messy.

ooooh pretty!

[GoombaGeek]

Courtesy of the shoddily constructed minetrack that gets rid of the rock I'm not planning to build stuff out of, I've just been introduced to lava mist.

Before, I didn't know lava mist existed.  My education has been short, brutal, and messy.

That does sound lovely. Is it like DEATH CONFETTI?

Most importantly, will a dwarf get !!happy thoughts!! by viewing it?

[Tabbyman]

Open tube. OMFG CLOSE IT OFF!!!!

WHEW.

Get greedy now that disaster is sealed off.

OMFG WHERE DID I OPEN IT THIS TIME???

Vertical diagonal drop through a tiny corner that I didn't know was possible, leaking HFS.

So, I lose a miner...

I block off the main mineshaft, and luckily nobody is down there. Just that miner. The other was sleeping.

So they all plug up the top of the shaft, waiting for me to crack a hole in it and restore the path they had.

I dig a separate path to the bottom, crack open a hallway in the depths, and spend half an hour processing the several dwarf-seconds it took to close off the hallway with HFS turning around the other way and killing my FPS.

WHEW! Patched up again.

HOLY CRAP THERE'S MORE COMING OUT ALREADY!

Sent my TWO swordmasters down there, one was SLEEPING so the other one slaughtered every demon and died in the process. I plugged it up again and was thankful to have a remaining swordmaster.

WHEW!

I trained up 10 more swordmasters during peacetime, collected 300 or so candy and was about to start processing it...

And a single titan appears and slaughters my 10 swordmasters in full steel. To be fair, it shot webs so melee was suicidal by default and I had no marksdwarves.

All that trouble over HFS and a single uninvited guest slaughters everything.

[FuzzyZergling]

My first time embarking on an ocean beach.
Dug my entrance near the ocean for aesthetic reasons, without knowing that the waves would flood my fortress.

[Hanslanda]

Embarked between two Dark Fortresses.
Realized I had an aquifer. Got excited, did the 'dirt plug' thing. Um, why is the stairs I made through the plug filling with water? Oh goddamn it. >.< Multi-level aquifer.

[keyreper]

i got 38 (?) dwarves in one migrant wave on my second year on my second fortress on the third video of my lp...

(thread for vids - http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=110946.0)

[terko]

Dug down to the magma sea, breached it for some quick smelter jobs and suddenly my fort is almost empty of dwarfes. It's time to stop single-tile up/down stairs straight down.

For some reason someone in the upper floors caught fire and it spread pretty quickly. I still don't know why, but dwarfen population has been halved, now only 37 are alive, more or less.