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[INSANEcyborg]

My current embark is a an evil mountain next to neutral plains.   Main fort is in the mountain, and I'm using the plains for my animals and butchers workshop.   No evil rains or clouds, but there are a few undead critters roaming around.

First face palm was when I ordered bones, skulls, etc to be dumped inside the fort.  I accidentally brought in some yak hair with it, which promptly reanimated and started attacking.   Luckily there were no serious injuries.

Second face palm is that I'm currently trying to build a shelter over the pastures.  I enabled masonry on my military and started building.  I figured if anything came by, they'd be able to kill it.   Instead I have an owl hovering above it, close enough to cause cancellations, too far away to be hit.  My marksdwarves are shooting all their bolts into the sky, they've gone though a couple stacks of ammo and the combat log only has 1 hit.

[Paaaad]

Ran into a Giant Cave Spider Recruit in Adventure Mode. Nuff' said.

[jei]

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[jei]

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Now, Magma crab triplets. Sorry for the bad picture. Wondering what to do with them.

[Aslandus]

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Now, Magma crab triplets. Sorry for the bad picture. Wondering what to do with them.

Basalt ballistics

[Splint]

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Now, Magma crab triplets. Sorry for the bad picture. Wondering what to do with them.

Basalt ballistics

They shoot magma now, not basalt.

[Repseki]

Having not had any FBs in a while, and wanting to challenge my military a bit more, I had my miners dig a staircase down into the caverns that leads up to the main entrance/training area.

Upon breaching the 1st cavern I immediately got an announcement about a Giant Wasp, with poisonous sting, FB that had clearly been chilling in the part of the caverns I never bothered to explore. Happy to have something at least somewhat dangerous for my military to fight, I had my civies stay inside, and set the camera to follow the FB so I could watch.

Almost immediately after resuming the FB flew straight past the staircase opening in the ceiling and instead started fighting two Blind Cave Ogres, getting completely decimated and barely doing any damage besides the one sting it got in...

Guess it's back to digging.

[Aslandus]

Messed up my cistern system, now I have to wait until the freeze starts in mid autumn to fix it... luckily I should have plenty of booze this time... just gonna let all the water flow into the cavern

[aiseant]

The whole fortress is closed, everyone inside, why should I care about your undead attack ?
... oh ... wait a minute ...
Didn't I told you lazy bastards to get this MegaBeast Firebreather corpse OUT of there ?

[soulsource]

For me the most facepalm moment up to now was actually two days ago, when I tried to sell a caged undead to the caravan...
I should have read the wiki article, then I would have known that non-trainable hostile creatures are set free, when one tries to haul their cage to the trade depot. Furthermore, I learned that it's a bad idea to send soldiers armed with crossbows to kill a suddenly set free undead in the middle of the crowded common dining area...
You might have guessed, the first missed shot hit a civilian dwarf, causing the armed civilians (hunters, woodcutters) to attack the soldiers, causing more bloodshed, and the overall chaos triggered by the resulting tantrum spiral leading to a spontaneous depopulation of the whole fortress to a point, where I chose to abandon it...

[khearn]

Really? Your crossbows can hit your own people? I've watched them shoot through my melee troops (without hitting them) often enough that I thought they couldn't hit friendlies. Or maybe it's just friendly civilians that they hit, but they're more careful when shooting past troops that might do more that just complain to the Mayor about it?

   Keith

[StagnantSoul]

Simple pair of goblin ambushes... Sent some markdwarves to take care of it, and I forgot to give them metal bolts instead of wooden ones, lost ten elite markdwarves that I just spent three in-game years constantly training.

[Aslandus]

Really? Your crossbows can hit your own people? I've watched them shoot through my melee troops (without hitting them) often enough that I thought they couldn't hit friendlies. Or maybe it's just friendly civilians that they hit, but they're more careful when shooting past troops that might do more that just complain to the Mayor about it?

   Keith

I think that's actually a glitch, any civilian who sees a hostile inside the base panics and is suddenly treated like an enemy by military... a source of much Fun when you accidentally release an unarmed goblin and they run through your dining room before being killed leading to a slaughter of everyone...

[stormyseasons]

Had a dwarf child claim a Craft shop, then berserk for some reason or the other. Probably because of lacking materials, not that I was bothering to check a child-mood. I set my fledgling military on the berserking brat, who promptly gets struck down... and while I'm leaving the mangled corpse there in my main stairwell to toughen up my dwarfs mentally, one dwarf or another gets upset and starts to fight each other... over and over. It'll be good to see how many dwarfs survive this... quasi-tantrum spiral?

[soulsource]

Ok, I didn't know about the glitch, and the "hit the wrong target explanation" sounded reasonable to me. I didn't read through the very long combat reports... That'll teach me to keep panicked dwarfs and military well separated...