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[Sutremaine]

Maybe you could buy a spare and leave it in the kitchen ready?

[MrsStick]

I just looked at my stills and saw tons of finished goods on them. So I check, and they're tattered clothes. Apparently dwarven rum makes my dwarves' clothes fall off...

*facepalm*

[StumpytheOzzie]

I tried one of those "min/max" builds so I wouldn't waste 44 embark points on a copper pick and I'll take the cassiterite and copper nuggets instead.

Forget to bring anything fireproof, so I can't make a wood burner.

Try again... forget the anvil.

Try again and pack a million units of metal ores but forget booze.


4th time seems lucky so far.

[jcochran]

I tried one of those "min/max" builds so I wouldn't waste 44 embark points on a copper pick and I'll take the cassiterite and copper nuggets instead.

Forget to bring anything fireproof, so I can't make a wood burner.

Try again... forget the anvil.

Try again and pack a million units of metal ores but forget booze.


4th time seems lucky so far.

Time to add another face palm. You can start off with a single ore and an anvil.
1. Deconstruct the wagon to get 3 logs.
2. Build a wood furnace using the ore.
3. Burn the wood to make 2 charcoal, and 1 ash.
4. Use the ash to make a smelter.
5. Deconstruct the wood furnace to get the ore back.
6. Smelt the ore.
7. Deconstruct the smelter.
8. Build a forge using the ash bar and anvil.
9. Use the forge to create an axe (you could instead create a pick, but you'll want the axe to get more wood to convert to charcoal)
10. Chop some wood.
Deconstruct the forge, build another wood furnace using the ash, convert a few logs to charcoal, deconstruct the wood furnace, build another forge, make a pick, continue on until you're a mountain home.....

[Sutremaine]

You'll need to release the ore for general-purpose use first. Go into the Stones menu, and set the appropriate ore stone to green. Change it back to red as soon as you order the building.

[StumpytheOzzie]

Time to add another face palm. You can start off with a single ore and an anvil.
1. Deconstruct the wagon to get 3 logs.
2. Build a wood furnace using the ore.
3. Burn the wood to make 2 charcoal, and 1 ash.
4. Use the ash to make a smelter.
5. Deconstruct the wood furnace to get the ore back.
6. Smelt the ore.
7. Deconstruct the smelter.
8. Build a forge using the ash bar and anvil.
9. Use the forge to create an axe (you could instead create a pick, but you'll want the axe to get more wood to convert to charcoal)
10. Chop some wood.
Deconstruct the forge, build another wood furnace using the ash, convert a few logs to charcoal, deconstruct the wood furnace, build another forge, make a pick, continue on until you're a mountain home.....

1. Yep, I knew that.
2. Couldn't do that because I didn't know how to use cassiterite ore to build a wood furnace, or if cassiterite and copper nuggets would even be acceptable.
3+ Irrelevant because of 2, but I knew all that too.

So it's not really "facepalm" in my opinion, more like learning:

You'll need to release the ore for general-purpose use first. Go into the Stones menu, and set the appropriate ore stone to green. Change it back to red as soon as you order the building.

See, now if I do this again... NOW it's a facepalm moment to not use cassiterite to build a wood burner.

The facepalm is for obvious dumb shit like forgetting an anvil. Or forgetting booze. (and seeds and barrels. I know it's doable, but not by me... not yet)

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Used to dig the aquifer out for fish.. And then my whole fortress was filled with water..

[SimRobert2001]

Oh no, my mayor was instantly killed.

By what? How? Really, the way you put it now, Its like saying "oh, no, it rains!"

[PDF urist master]

There aren't a lot of ways to instantly kill someone.

The only ways that I can think of are decapitation, bisection, freezing, obsidianizing, cave ins, atomsmashing, headshots that damage the brain and VERY specific syndromes.

out of the eight, two are extremely rare (freezing, obsidianizing), two are easily controllable (cave-ins and atomsmashing), leaving only the four which could happen in combat.

the most likely out of the four is probably a headshot. decapitiation and bisection don't happen that often and if an instant death evil cloud/forgotten beast showed up, it's probably too !!FUN!! not to mention.

my guess is that a random asshole dwarf punched the mayor in the face and the punch killed him instantly.

[Walrusking]

Hmm:
- A hunter becoming "attached" to his crossbow (considering a dwarf was in the hospital, it may have been attatched to a broken leg)

- Forgetting to set up a military before a siege.

- Having dwarves eat all the plump helmets so quickly that there was no way to make alcohol.

- A goblin breaking the bones of THREE dwarves with metal armor before dying.

- The "incredible" medical staff forgetting that injured dwarves drink and finding them dead from dehydration.

[TheHossofMoss]

Hmm:
- A hunter becoming "attached" to his crossbow (considering a dwarf was in the hospital, it may have been attatched to a broken leg)

- Forgetting to set up a military before a siege.

- Having dwarves eat all the plump helmets so quickly that there was no way to make alcohol.

- A goblin breaking the bones of THREE dwarves with metal armor before dying.

- The "incredible" medical staff forgetting that injured dwarves drink and finding them dead from dehydration.

I know that feel. ;_;

[WalkerRiley]

A weregopher, bronze colossus, and a UFB all attacked my site within minutes of each other.  My dwarves fought the good fight, and their families were drafted when they fell, until I had but 10 dwarves remaining and a severely dented colossus deciding if it wanted to burst through the only door between it and the rest.  It did.  And that human caravan?  Never stood a chance.

[imlovinit]

Toady misspelling the release date for the new version. But despite that he remains a god among men.

[reality.auditor]

Toady misspelling the release date for the new version. But despite that he remains a god among men.

Copy&paste - bane of programmers everywhere.

[Romesaria]

I did this one yesterday afternoon.

I started a new fortress in a ruined world gen of mine.  I start by digging down a few z-levels and accidentally hitting a cavern.

In an interest to not deal with the cavern nasties just yet, I channeled out the stairs leading down and built a floor over it.

It was a set of up-down stairs, and I didn't realize what I had done until I killed on my miners on the embark.

I hope my next migrant wave has at least one miner in it, to rescue all the dead bodies...

P.S. my only carpenter just fell off a construction I was trying to build and offed himself.  I don't even.

And now, that fort has fallen.  It was looking up for a while, but a tantrum spiral started... some child went beserk, so one of my military dwarves offed him, that caused his mother to go beserk...

I pretty much abandoned the fortress once I was down to 1 Dwarf and 5 children.