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[MouseParade]

A recent oversight by myself recently was while making a protective floor over a magma tube I discovered deep down in the earth, I realized (too late) that one tile of the floor had been suspended in the making due to a burrow restriction from an ambush that happened a while ago, the single tile was never constructed.

I noticed the red announcement scroll by and realized a forgotten beast was scaring away all of my furnace operators... oops...

had the tile been constructed the flying three eyed albatross wouldn't have gotten through.
The resulting battle led three of my legendary furnace operators to make cleverly timed dodges from the attacks of the beast right into the magma of the tube. bummer...

[Smarmet]

I just lost an early fortress trying to build my well. I built a new lever, and then a floodgate to control the channel to the river. Went back to my lever, added a connect to floodgate job and then pull the lever. Simple enough, except I went back to the lever that controlled my wagon gate, and ended up pathing all my dwarves through the neighboring minecart grinder as they dragged in supplies from outside.

On the plus side, I have now successfully tested a minecart grinder.

[Mortis]

My medical system is so bad that my resident badass actually managed to heal from two broken legs, a missing foot and a torn eye before anyone had even gotten around to taking him to the hospital. He then proceeded to dismantle the largest siege I have seen, with 97 goblins, almost on his own.

I really need to fix that hospital

[Bluebreaker]

after months of search for the vampire, he decides to feast on a wounded soldier in the hospital in front of my eyes...

[moondowner]

Wanted to direct water from the river to my fortress, dug out the long corridor, channeled out 2 z-levels, now there's open space on the same z-level as the river.
What the hell was I even trying to do. I think I'm an idiot.

[Solon64]

Embarked on a river with a waterfall, the thought process being "Oh cool, cliffside villas for all!"

I was expecting the usual 5-6 z levels.  Waterfall is 36 z-levels tall.  I kid you not.  My.... my poor FPS...  On the less facepalmy side, cliffside villas for all 200 dwarves, not just the nobles and important ones like I had planned on!

Actually, it's doing fine for now, although I forsee problems in the future.  Suspect I'll have to dam it at some point.

[Dunamisdeos]

Turkeys?

I had a cave-in involving nothing but sand. There were 5-ish dwarves in the one-wide corridor, with a single turkey in the front square. The turkey apparantly took the entirety of the force of the cave in, since the dwarves were unharmed even though they were enveloped by the dust-wave.

This turkey ended up with 2 broken wings, its spine broken, multiple lacerations, and NO BEAK. That's right, it literally had its beak sandblasted from its face. For it's heroic actions, it was left in a pool of its own blood to eventually suffocate. Then it got chucked in the garbage chute.

Don't talk to me about tragic turkeys.

[PDF urist master]

i once had a forgotten beast made of melanite with toxic fumes that causes numbness and I'm assuming necrosis. basically on his way to my fortress, he killed like 5 of my dwarves, two of them children before having an epic showdown with a child. this child managed to survive a full MONTH with that bastard, because the beast only thought to choke his throat. the syndrome didn't even affect it. i didn't see any of the necrosis kick in.

when i sent my military down there to kill it, FOUR of my guys got necrosis. life's just not fair.

then i save scummed and got a fleshy crocodile that can shoot webs. (shot to death by marksdwarves).

[Porpoisepower]

Turkeys?

I had a cave-in involving nothing but sand. There were 5-ish dwarves in the one-wide corridor, with a single turkey in the front square. The turkey apparantly took the entirety of the force of the cave in, since the dwarves were unharmed even though they were enveloped by the dust-wave.

This turkey ended up with 2 broken wings, its spine broken, multiple lacerations, and NO BEAK. That's right, it literally had its beak sandblasted from its face. For it's heroic actions, it was left in a pool of its own blood to eventually suffocate. Then it got chucked in the garbage chute.

Don't talk to me about tragic turkeys.

I wonder how long it will take Toady to make Sand non self supporting.

[Exitstrategy]

That awful moment I realized that I could make temporary workshops on the surface until I got my underground work areas set up. So much struggling at the start of a mountain fort that could have been avoided.

Also when I found out how to mass dump items.

[oggimog]

I fell in love with an underground water storage to fuel my wells. The first time I flooded my entire fortress, because I did not think of the water pressure. Then after I had cleaned up, i forgot to close the floodgates and flooded everything again. Today I dug out the first well in my new forress. Suddenly there was water and blood everywhere. I think I should consider a saver method
But for a start I build a drainage at the bottom of my staircase

[Rose]

Wells tend to cause blood to pool around them as people bathe at them.


Hm... that'd make an interesting picture.

[Jervill]

I built a nice long exterior wall with a long trap corridor plus a drawbridge & moat in case of sieges...and then the goblins came in on Giant Cave Swallows.

Luckily, the goblins still pathed through most of the weapon trap corridor that was set up and the cave swallows fled from my bowdwarves instead of fighting them.

[pisskop]

I forgot to build a wall inside of my murky-pool floodgate before letting it fill back up.  A megabeast got in and killed my farmers, mucking up the well as well.

See, I should have built it inside the gat so that even if the gate was destroyed it couldnt get in.

[Id Utalrisen]

30+ legendary dwarriors are at their battle stations on the bridge before my fort, and the goblin archers are approaching!...and all my dwarves dodge off my bridge into magma. Whoops!

Also, trying DFHack for the first time:
Oh I bet I can mark all the tattered clothes from my inventory, and autodump them into my refuse pile! Instantly, 250+ dwarves have nervous breakdowns because they're all naked. Half of them go berserk within a month, and kill the other half. Whoops.