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[misko27]

Had a 100+ Fortress filled with friendly dwarves.
Had my first goblin siege, cool stuff, was hopping to get some experience for my mili dorfs.
Had a hallway full of stone fall traps, and decided to put the dorfs on stand on the other side of the hallway (So, the goblins would trigger the traps and be easy prey to my fully copper armoured dorfs.
Between those, was a married dorf, with a wife and kids.
So, the goblins came. I saw the first few backing off and bone and blood all over the walls. Good stoffs.
Then, a goblin pikeman charges, passes all the traps and triggers most of them, get's hit by all sorts of stone, runs up to my married dorf and sticks the Pike up my dwarf's brain.

So, the sh** and my brain fused together, and bodyslammed the fan.

His wife tantrums, and thou begins the infamous tantrum spiral.
Fortress crumbled One hour Later.

That, that right there, is pure malice and spite on the goblins part. I have never seen a more determined goblin in my life, or one I respect so highly. Give that goblin a slab, he deserves it for his troubles. And maybe a tomb.

[donfuan]

Quite a little time ago in one of my recent forts, a monster diplomat shows up. I think he was some sort of Giant Lizardman if i remember, with *deadly dust*. I see him and think "that'll be nothing but trouble". Well, he run's through my fort, through the dining room, the kitchen, until finally meeting my baroness in her office and nothing happens. He says farewell and leaves and i think "lucky me!".

Unfortunately, on his way out he meets a kobold thief and immediatly starts pumping out his deadly dust in a 20 tile radius, killing all my nearby lifestock and several dwarfs.

Task Manager - kill Dwarf Fortress - reload. sigh. Is that cheating? Didn't want to give that fort up then, and reclaiming is sort of messy if you had massive piles of everything lying around.

[TubaDragoness]

I was using garbage dump designations to separate useable clothes and trade goods after a goblin invasion, into piles of silk/wool, plant fiber/wood, and metal. During the process, one of my water source zones somehow was activated as a garbage dump.

My well is now full of large clothes and polluted with troll blood. :T

[Supersheepman]

An ambush of 10 goblin crossbowmen and one goblin spearman toppled my 120 dwarf strong fortress. The asswipes managed, through a glitch or some feature I'm unaware of, to shoot my dwarves through a raised bridge. Needless to say, I was rather annoyed.

[Sutremaine]

Is that cheating?

Since you're asking, you probably think the answer is 'yes'. But do you care?

[misko27]

So, I was happily moving along in my sucession fort, when a elven caravan walks right into a ambush for me. I assemble the military outside the entrance to the fort, while elves are being chased around the countryside. I am just waiting there, when I notice a hunting stonecrafter was found by a elf-chasing goblin. The golbin walks up to her and stabs her. She shoots him in the leg, appearantly managing to single-handedly scare off the ambush. She disables the one in front of her, and I send my mlitary after the retreating goblins.

The military, mostly full of crossbow conscripts, is slaughtered. Fortunately, the trained dwarves show up and defeat the goblins. One and two thirds of a sqaud remain, out of three full ones before. Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory indeed.

[donfuan]

Is that cheating?

Since you're asking, you probably think the answer is 'yes'. But do you care?

Nope.

[thiosk]

Charcoal doesn't come from furnace operating.  It comes from wood-burning.

AORHGLIJAOLIHJLVKMVOIWHELKMOIUNOBIHJOIJWEOLKMALKMVIOUNALIJOWEI.

*pant* *pant*

I wasted the better part of a dwarven year trying to figure out why the hell no one would kick start my metal production.

[Hanslanda]

Charcoal doesn't come from furnace operating.  It comes from wood-burning.

AORHGLIJAOLIHJLVKMVOIWHELKMOIUNOBIHJOIJWEOLKMALKMVIOUNALIJOWEI.

*pant* *pant*

I wasted the better part of a dwarven year trying to figure out why the hell no one would kick start my metal production.

I lol'd at your misfortune. Sorry about that. Also, I did the same thing.

[gbrngfol]

Charcoal doesn't come from furnace operating.  It comes from wood-burning.

AORHGLIJAOLIHJLVKMVOIWHELKMOIUNOBIHJOIJWEOLKMALKMVIOUNALIJOWEI.

*pant* *pant*

I wasted the better part of a dwarven year trying to figure out why the hell no one would kick start my metal production.

I lol'd at your misfortune. Sorry about that. Also, I did the same thing.

This seems to be a common moment.

[MaximumZero]

I could set you guys up with my oil plants. Plants>Seeds>Paste>Oil>Coke/Fuel

No more having to worry about scavenging for trees!

^_^

[Smashness]

Charcoal doesn't come from furnace operating.  It comes from wood-burning.

AORHGLIJAOLIHJLVKMVOIWHELKMOIUNOBIHJOIJWEOLKMALKMVIOUNALIJOWEI.

*pant* *pant*

I wasted the better part of a dwarven year trying to figure out why the hell no one would kick start my metal production.

I lol'd at your misfortune. Sorry about that. Also, I did the same thing.

This seems to be a common moment.

Glad I'm not alone...
What's the point of having a separate wood-burning skill? It's the same thing as furnace operating, and it's not like wood-burning helps you make campfires in adventure mode.

[therealmarauder]

Maybe it SHOULD help you build fires in Adventure Mode. Also, yeah, I have no idea. But making charcoal is a delicate process, because you have to carefully control the flow of air in, whereas with furnace operating you have to operate bellows and melt stuff in a very hot fire.

[blah_1123]

Set up a danger room for the first time, watched my military go in with all their war dogs, I didn't realize my mistake... And then.. "Dog McWardog, War Dog has been impaled on spikes." Oh dear... I stopped the room and let my military come out, slowly followed by a few surviving, limping, dogs...

[Neekerbreeker]

Me, about five minutes ago:  "Why is this guy so bothered by 'terrible vermin' lately?  He only hates guinea pigs, and we don't have any guinea pigs."

. . . as I scrolled through the Units screen, with Cavy Boar and Cavy Sow  Cavy Pup listed hundreds of times.  Turns out I was thinking Peccary rather than Cavy.

Are you running a modded game? Guinea pigs aren't on the wiki.



Also, is there a [VERMIN_HATEABLE] tag in the cavy raws? Adding it to a creature that isn't vermin doesn't throw an error, but that doesn't mean that it's doing something.

No, no mods.  Guinea pigs aren't on the wiki . . . exactly.  But they do redirect you to Cavy, where it says,

Cavies, more commonly known as guinea pigs, . . .