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[Cholek]

When I realised that Atom Smasher wont stop HFS. ;(

[floundericiousWA]

When I realised that Atom Smasher wont stop HFS. ;(

Talk about a painful "NOOOOOoooooooooo.......ugh!" end to a fort

[misko27]

When I realized that atom smasher garbage disposal need to be in a enclosed area.
Although, that woodcutter did provide important information about flying super-fast garbage.
Though the fact that there were several gobbo weapons in there didn't help him.

[terko]

Though the fact that there were several gobbo weapons in there didn't help him.

All that beautiful goblinite!

And regarding Atom Smashers and HFS, they stop the circus, if they're raised and never lowered again.

[Wyrmnax]

Made a minecart wooden run.

Pile of wood outside. Minecart track all the way inside, drops wood into a single tile wood deposit, right by my carpenter. minecart goes through a bridge that is opened/lowered by minecart pressure.

1) The track inside is shorter than the main route inside the fortress. So while i am building the track, dwarfs think it wise to path through there to get inside. Result - finished building the bridge while there were 3 dwarfs on the channel below it.

2) First minecart test run - pressure plate too close to the bridge. Dwarf pushes minecart full of wood. Goblin siege appears. Minecart passes through the pressure plate. Minecart smashes into the closed bridge. Bridge opens. Goblins find a very nice easy path inside the fortress.

3) Defended from goblin invasion. Recover fortress to a semi-functional state after a year of tantrums. Move pressure plate further away from the bridge. Fill minecart with wood. Urist McWoodsman pushes it. Kea catches minecart midway through the track and flies off with it.

4) Dwarven caravan leaving depot. New minecart. Fill with wood. Urist McWoodsman pushes it...

5) Minecart operation working now. However, looks like my wood pile outside never gets smaller, always have plenty of dwarfs bringing in more wood. Realize i have not ordered more trees to be chopped. Check wood stockpile inside. Realize i have not made a wood stockpile inside, only the outside one, so my dwarves have been picking up the wood that the minecart bring inside and carrying it outside for it to be loaded on the minecart again.

[weenog]

Fill minecart with wood. Urist McWoodsman pushes it. Kea catches minecart midway through the track and flies off with it.

This part sounds less facepalm and more bemused stare and headscratch.

[Sofaspud]

Facepalm last night:

I'm using the double-slit method to pierce a 2-layer aquifer.  I'm down to the final bits, walling off the bottom layer.  Urist McDumbass, my miner, punches a hole in the single wall tile and then decides right there, with water spraying all around him and a pump hammering away overhead, is the perfect place to take a nap.

Still, though, the pump will keep him from drowning, right?

Well, sure... so long as the pump operator doesn't decide to take a nap at the same time.

Stupid dwarves.

[Aviator CJ]

Facepalm last night:

I'm using the double-slit method to pierce a 2-layer aquifer.  I'm down to the final bits, walling off the bottom layer.  Urist McDumbass, my miner, punches a hole in the single wall tile and then decides right there, with water spraying all around him and a pump hammering away overhead, is the perfect place to take a nap.

Still, though, the pump will keep him from drowning, right?

Well, sure... so long as the pump operator doesn't decide to take a nap at the same time.

Stupid dwarves.

And their last thought was "it is noisy"

[floundericiousWA]

Urist McDumbass slept uneasily forever due to noise and drowning

[TheDarkStar]

I downloaded DF and some other files that SDL doesn't have by default. First thing I noticed was that it couldn't find files in the right subfolders, and then that there were no subfolders, and that everything had been extracted to the same folder. I spent half an hour painstakingly creating folders and moving files (I was checking vs the unzipped files) before I realized that I had the option off for "extract files with full path" when extracting. 

[Hanslanda]

Started a new fortress. Saw a wierd symbol, an E with a ' on top of it. I'm like, wtf is that? 'k', hold it over...

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=105981.50

Oh god, the bees... I forgot I still had the raws for the Ultrabee within my folders. Now I simply MUST find a way to use them to kill invaders.

[jasonwill2]

on my epic volcano fort i gave a huge story to earlier, i was reclaiming it decided for my waterfall down the side i should use DFhack to put a riversource instead of figuring out pumps.

forgot when messing with water earlier the range was set to 20 wide, 15 tall, and 3 z levels... I couldn't undo.

I used the "die" command.

In other news, auto dump and fast dwarf are great for cleaning up a fort within a year without a bunch of ghosts murdering your guys too fast.

[Cholek]

Cat in ballista training room. -,-

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I forgot to make doors tightly closed.

Edit:
Not again!

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[weenog]

Cat in ballista training room. -,-

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I forgot to make doors tightly closed.

Wait, those things don't require specific attack targeting, they just hit anything that's in the area they pass through, don't they?

Reliable damage control for a catsplosion in progress might put the ballista on the Useful list even if they are trash for sieges.

[Eoganachta]

Fill minecart with wood. Urist McWoodsman pushes it. Kea catches minecart midway through the track and flies off with it.

This part sounds less facepalm and more bemused stare and headscratch.

*Shakes fist at Da Vinci machine bird*
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