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[Gentlefish]

Can... Can I have that dwarf?

[TheKaspa]

Dwarf is take by fey mood

I checked showmood: good, I have enough copper bars.
A few months later, he dies. I spent a few days to understand why and then I realized I didn't built a forge...

[Splint]

Dwarf is take by fey mood

I checked showmood: good, I have enough copper bars.
A few months later, he dies. I spent a few days to understand why and then I realized I didn't built a forge...

 I had that happen twice in the same fort with a pair of jewelers. I thought "I should build a jeweler's shop so this doesn't happen again." Then I got distracted equipping my soldiers and dark stranglers attacked and I forgot about it completely because I thought I'd had it built. A year later I end up minus another gemworker. Because I forgot to build the workshop I thought I built.

[Erils]

I had a dwarf in a fey mood. He had everything he needed except one piece of cloth. I had no way of producing said cloth at the time, but it was almost time for a trade caravan to arrive. I waited and hoped but nothing came.

My dwarf went insane and became melancholy.

The caravan arrived moments later.

[TheKaspa]

I had a dwarf in a fey mood. He had everything he needed except one piece of cloth. I had no way of producing said cloth at the time, but it was almost time for a trade caravan to arrive. I waited and hoped but nothing came.

My dwarf went insane and became melancholy.

The caravan arrived moments later.

The second death on GloryAnvils was due to a fey idiotdwarf that wanted leather. Problem was, I had embarked with only ducks and chickenks, dogs hadn't breed yet.
Elves arrived, without leather, of course. He died.

[turrin]

I just prepared everything for a Siege : Bridge, fortifications, etc. But after retracting my Bridge, I just realize there were still space on the sides of my bridge, just when the first lasher arrived   

[FuzzyZergling]

I had a dwarf in a fey mood. He had everything he needed except one piece of cloth. I had no way of producing said cloth at the time, but it was almost time for a trade caravan to arrive. I waited and hoped but nothing came.

My dwarf went insane and became melancholy.

The caravan arrived moments later.

The second death on GloryAnvils was due to a fey idiotdwarf that wanted leather. Problem was, I had embarked with only ducks and chickenks, dogs hadn't breed yet.
Elves arrived, without leather, of course. He died.

Did the elves not have animals you could butcher?

[draemmli]

My current fort is enclosed by two rivers which lead to a 9 Z-levels deep waterfall.
Only one side is open to the map borders.

"Perfect!", I thought, "I should build a moat to keep the (earthbound) nasties out."
And so I did.

Lesson learned: Be careful with water or you'll end up with two drowned miners and a head-shaped dent in your table.

[smjjames]

I had a dwarf in a fey mood. He had everything he needed except one piece of cloth. I had no way of producing said cloth at the time, but it was almost time for a trade caravan to arrive. I waited and hoped but nothing came.

My dwarf went insane and became melancholy.

The caravan arrived moments later.

The second death on GloryAnvils was due to a fey idiotdwarf that wanted leather. Problem was, I had embarked with only ducks and chickenks, dogs hadn't breed yet.
Elves arrived, without leather, of course. He died.

Did the elves not have animals you could butcher?

You could have sent your miners or military after some wild animals.

[shrike.ex]

I had prepared my fortress with an exterior drawbridge and courtyard, with a neighboring training area and barracks. Though the rest of the fortress was only separated from the courtyard by doors, my intent was to include a second drawbridge and moat, so that I could send out my military without endangering my fort itself.

Lucky for my, I got an early titan attack. Whee! Well, I've got lots of marksdwarfs who are just itching for some target practice. The problem is that I haven't installed bait outside the front door, so unless the bridge is down, Mr. Titan doesn't feel like pathing into my firing arcs. "No matter" I think, I'll just let down the bridge. Then I get a great idea. I'll launch the thing. See if I can break its legs or whatever. Brilliant.

I wait for the metal monstrosity to get on the bridge, flip the lever, and watch it go flying. . . right into my courtyard. O.O  See, the courtyard has 2 z-level empty moat, but I hadn't finished the walls yet. The briefly-aerial-and-now-intensely-irritated titan proceeds to utterly wreck my marksdwarves, tear down the door, and mulch what remains of my sad little fort.

Lesson learned. Never teach titans to fly.

[Togre]

I somehow squandered my plump helmet spawn and am unable to plant anymore.  I don't know how.  But now my noble dwarfs are reduced to surface farmning to obtain adequate booze.

[itg]

Your dwarves probably cooked all your plump helmets. Unlike brewing, cooking doesn't give you any seeds.

By the way, you can make surface farming plenty dwarven if you do it underground. Turns out a tile which has seen the sunlight once is permanently considered to be outdoors for farming purposes. Just dig an open pit, build a roof over it, and you can farm everything there.

[Sutremaine]

The second death on GloryAnvils was due to a fey idiotdwarf that wanted leather. Problem was, I had embarked with only ducks and chickenks, dogs hadn't breed yet.
Elves arrived, without leather, of course. He died.

Chickens can give leather, though an individual may be too small to do so. You could also have butchered the male dog, since any females would already be pregnant. Did you butcher the wagon pullers already and turn their leather into a finished item?

I don't think elves bring leather anyway.

[gunpowdertea]

By the way, you can make surface farming plenty dwarven if you do it underground. Turns out a tile which has seen the sunlight once is permanently considered to be outdoors for farming purposes. Just dig an open pit, build a roof over it, and you can farm everything there.

I like to roof it with glass - preferrably not green glass, as this is too cheap to make if "Dorfs All Harvest" this also reduces cave adaption.

[DwarvesAtWork]

I just lost a fort to a severed undead hand!! Somehow it was flung on top of the walls around my main gate. It proceeded to scare everyone that got near the main gate. I mass designated ramps all around the walls, but my masons could not get close enough to build. My marksdwarves refused to shoot at it too. Eventually those trapped outside died of thirst and started a tantrum spiral.