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[weenog]

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...

I would give them time to recover, then send them back in, and keep on until none of those dogs are left.  War animals are nice as disposable heroes, but it's not so nice when an Axe Lord throws a tantrum or goes berserk because he just lost five beloved pets in two seconds.

War animals are better assigned to strategically placed restraints or pastures than to dwarves, IMO.

[blah_1123]

One of my siege operators just managed to fire their baby as well as the ballista arrow out of the ballista.... Could someone explain how exactly this happened? :S

[weenog]

One of my siege operators just managed to fire their baby as well as the ballista arrow out of the ballista.... Could someone explain how exactly this happened? :S

Yes, please do.  This needs to happen reliably.

[blah_1123]

I've just noticed, The babies corpse managed to get lodged in the fortification, no one can get to it to bury it and theres miasma spreading now, thankfully it's where no one would go.

[Mageziya]

face palm on behalf of the dwarves.
goblin siege, one squad (hammer goblins) with the leader riding a blind cave bear called 'dang'

I forbid EVERYTHING outside the fort, to prevent dwarves running out to claim clothes, bodies etc. and lower the bridge into my heavily trapped fortress.

'RUN OUTSIDE TO PICK UP THE FORBIDDEN ITEMS!'
*facedesk*
lost about 30 dwarves overall, goblins were routed, and I have a heavily injured goblin in a cage.

Uhh, are you sure you didn't accidentally set everything to dump instead of forbid?

[Sutremaine]

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, . . .

But the words 'guinea pig' don't appear in the raws. What kind of creature does your dwarf absolutely detest?

[Reese]

so, apparently, holding shift and using er or cv in the stockpile [q] menu will automatically go to 0 or max barrels or bins, all this time Ive been doing things the hard way (and just assumed both lower and ipper case did the same thing)

*face palm*

[Scruffy]

One of my siege operators just managed to fire their baby as well as the ballista arrow out of the ballista.... Could someone explain how exactly this happened? :S

Yes, please do.  This needs to happen reliably.

That is the dwarfiest thing I have heard in a while.

[Reudh]

One of my siege operators just managed to fire their baby as well as the ballista arrow out of the ballista.... Could someone explain how exactly this happened? :S

Yes, please do.  This needs to happen reliably.

That is the dwarfiest thing I have heard in a while.

Presumably the baby decided to go all Doctor Baby Strangelove on the ballista before plummeting to its doom.

[Scruffy]

I just caught a cave dragon (and 2 rutherers. A male and a female.) in my cavern traps.
Naturally I rejoiced and opened the gates to the trap corridor. After seeing the haulers starting to carry them I started doing other stuff and soon pulled the lever to seal the passage again. (Hoping to catch another cave dragon since they appeared in a group of two.)

Some time later I was planning on building the cages but noticed that they were not available. I presumed that they were still being hauled so I waited. A bit later I started wondering what was going on and checked the animals in the fort. No caged cave dragons and only the male rutherer. Then I checked Dwarf TheRapist and noticed that I had two less dwarves than I should. They seemed to disappear without a trace so I crafted their slabs to see what killed them. Yep, 2 x Urist McHauler crushed by a drawbridge.  I crushed my cave dragon and the female of my rutherer breeding pair.

[Berossus]

"Boss, listen, we arent complaining or anything, but these archery targets in the corner you set up 5 years ago, well... shouldnt we marksdwarves be shooting those, instead of you know, developing remarkable skills in crossbow-to-face-smashing?"

[MrCat]

On the bright side, you now have the finest crossbow wieding face smashers around! My own facepalm came when a werewolf (Genesis, nt were-wolf) encountered a weapons trap, then leaped 5 squares through the air onto a tree just so he could scare the bejesusout of the dwarfs who were tryig to grb bodies and clean traps. And it took around 15 realtime minutes to shoot hm off the thing. And then we were sieged by demons.

[TSTwizby]

In relation to the most recent STNPO game (http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=111289.510)

So coming in, I've got an evil biome, about two hundred zombies, a horde of goblins, and six dwarves, one of whom is immediately killed by a ghost, one of whom is injured and incapable of movement, one of whom is sad, and one of whom is sad and also locked in a 'conduct meeting' job. I turn off all hauling labors except food, refuse and burial, and set about building a secure bunker. It's about ten minutes for me to realize that the reason no one's digging is neither the lack of picks nor an excess of other jobs, but instead a military alert restricting them to a burrow. Ten minutes after that I finally figure out why no one's building the furniture I need in it.

[GoombaGeek]

Playing a modded Human Town, and in status, I see "Axemans, Swordsmans, Macemans, Spearmans and Crossbowmans".

TOO MANY MANS

Maybe this should get fixed, although I'm unsure how.

[Splint]

Custom profession names to fix the plurals. I feel like I've started a trend because I've noticed a rise in people playing DF humans in the last month or two.