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[Altaree]

I used dfhack to embark on a human fort.  Get all the starting designations complete. Unpause.  Turns out the humans are hostile to a group of dwarves setting up in the middle of their fort.  Whoops

[SandyCaesar]

I was constructing a multi-z-level tall pit to fling gobbos into. Unfortunately I forgot that dwarves tend not to be the brightest when channeling. At the bottom, a "recovery shaft" leading back to the surface. Well and good.

Somehow the miner got the idea to remove the bits at the bottom first, and then go back up and dig his way down.

The inevitable happened, and now the bottomless pit has been properly inaugurated with the body of the miner who dug it. /facepalm

[ptb_ptb]

Just now.

Was forcibly reminded how water pressure flow works. I just wanted a little water to bring a bit of mud and I got an entire ocean filling my fortress instantly and killing 19 out of 20 dwarfs.

[WillowLuman]

I like to call such moments a "toilet flush."

[Ironlion]

Just now.

Was forcibly reminded how water pressure flow works. I just wanted a little water to bring a bit of mud and I got an entire ocean filling my fortress instantly and killing 19 out of 20 dwarfs.

I did that with lava; to say it has "no pressure" is somewhat inaccurate, since when breaching a lava vein, it does tend to project forward with a certain velocity.

[Eldestish]

I made a GCS farm and pitted the spider in..
I forgot to forbid the doors and it killed the bait,Then I let it out into the waiting cage trap..but it just went by and then killed a few dorfs before my militia killed it..

[Hanslanda]

Just now.

Was forcibly reminded how water pressure flow works. I just wanted a little water to bring a bit of mud and I got an entire ocean filling my fortress instantly and killing 19 out of 20 dwarfs.

I did that with lava; to say it has "no pressure" is somewhat inaccurate, since when breaching a lava vein, it does tend to project forward with a certain velocity.

Yeah. I was trying to breach a volcano the other day and tried the diagonal fortification method. Diagonals LIE. No pressure is removed. That shit sprayed into my fortress. It was an exciting time for my dwarves. Desperately trying to reach the lever for the floodgate before the magma passed the lever. I lied, they were all on break as the forges slowly filled with magma. Thankfully, only one dwarf was injured.
And yes, I put the lever near where the magma will be, because fuck OSHA.

[waldo]

so apparently setting a gaggle of dwarves out to kill those stupid traders that always clog up the immigrant lines causes the entire fortress to turn on those dwarves... imagine my surprise when my alerts is flooded with job cancellations because they are all running from my military...

also what's left of my military has turned on the few that killed the trader so, *facepalm*.

[Hanslanda]

Ladies and gentledwarfs, a loyalty cascade. *Claps politely*

[Splint]

Beutiful. Truly and undeniably.

[waldo]

so it's safe to say i'm well and truthfully screwed?

[Splint]

Also undeniably. Unless you can keep the "Traitor" forces seperated.

[misko27]

so it's safe to say i'm well and truthfully screwed?

Probably. Quick and decisive intervention could prevent it, but you are in a lot of trouble.

The dwarves who attacked the traders are no longer loyal to the civ, which makes them enemies of your citizens. Since the are still loyal to your fort, any dwarves who attack them will become enemies of the fort, but not of the civ.  dwarves who kill your regular loyal to everyone dwarves will be loyal to no one. The upshot is that you cant send more of your military aainst the unloyal ones, since by killing them there now unloyal too.

HOWEVER... You still control the first semi-loyal dwarves, so you can order them to go to the edge of the map, where you can deal with them later.

[waldo]

alright so i managed to move the squad to the edge of the map, they fought amongst themselves for a while and on a whim i decided to let them back in and nobody seems to be shooting at them or actively trying to kill each other, or running away from them for that matter, is it really safe or have i just made the situation worse somehow?

[Hanslanda]

...
Oh god, what have you done?


Just kidding, I have no idea whether that's good or bad. Have !!FUN!!.