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[pisskop]

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...

May I suggest training your civilians for discipline?

It can be fairly easy, from what Im understanding.  a corpse here and a puppyfall there.  If you put the bodies in the intended break rooms it will also help keep them from slacking off and making friends.

[Brenodor]

Had a nice fortress going...
Apparently i atomsmashed one of my legendary Swordsdwarves. Of course the one wearing an artifact weapon and breastplate. yay
She had killed two Invasions on her own...
I only noticed by the message that she has been missing for a while.
I'm sad 

Maybe i should start savescumming

Regards

[StagnantSoul]

Ugh... Miss-aligned a drawbridge trap... Just crushed a group of legendary warriors...

[ArKFallen]

Spoiler: Fortress Thread Post (click to show/hide)

The first (and last) Mountainhome was destroyed over a hundred years ago.
In 228 the 7 Dwarves of The Dust struck the earth to create Nightcontrols The Last Bastion!
   ...In the middle of the desert.
My 3 sheep and rams were starving so I quickly dug to and found the first cavern... to discover a muddy, plantless waste. Oddly more barren than the surface (the entrance grew a few plants sometimes, pebble grass and succulent toes? What?!)
To save my sheep I dug further, deeper, faster... only to hit semi-molten rock at -73. So I went up a bit and off to the side and hit it again at -65.
So I go to -50, strike west hard and then have a shaft up... and hit a green cavern! I let it sit for a moment and have a dwarf wall it up. My sheep will have delicious grass!

1 Week later...
No grass yet in sight and my sheep are starving. I guess it's time for venison . I vow to keep a spot of grassy-ness for future animals.
1 more Week later...
The wood, she's gone and I forga ta bring me axe! How will we get more?! I sit upon oodles of veins of metal but have no fuel of any kind!

Sometime later...
Dwarf caravan arrives (weird how our efforts are legendary in the destroyed mountainhome, and legends says it was destroyed) with no liaison of course. We trade and leave us much wood richer. Unfortunately I forget about training axes again so it all goes to beds for the new migrants and an accident.

Second migrant wave 2 people arrive as passing acquaintances of some Starting 7 members. Aside from that everything goes normally. Rooms for all 20 of the dwarfs, mini-militia with obsidian swords (turns out these take a log, guess where my reserved logs went ). The year ends, the married dwarf becomes Queen (I had someone lined up for as King ), and we prepare the throne room.

Praises be! The elves have arrived bearing wood! The Legendary stonecrafter churns out oodles of mugs and buys everything of use. The elves were quite lucky, if they hadn't come bearing logs I would have decorated the map with their corpses. I need me wood.

Later on we get... another migrant wave? Weird, but I can deal.

9 Dwarfs later...
When will it end?!? The yearly autosave's pop and sites file said there were 26 dwarves in existence, and now I am at 29 with the wave showing no sign of stopping!! At least these guys are super skilled, it's not like anything super ridiculous is going-


*Headdesk*

There are a couple in there:

• Grass/Moss spreads more slowly from 34.11, so popping the cavern while sheep are at hungry and starving is too late
• Embarked in desert so didn't bring axes, when I ran out of wood and hit a cavern with plants I had no way to get more wood
• Obsidian swords take a log to make and I made three, guess how many traded logs were reserved for training axes
• The dwarf civ has been destroyed for over 100 years, but I still got a dwarf caravan and now a (large) third migrant wave

[Brenodor]

well...
Today I decided to start a new Fortress. I found a very nice spot, had awesome dwarves (3 were mighty and/or agile and/or very slow to tire, another liked platinum and warhammers). Naturally I was totally excited to get this fortress started. 1.5 or 2 months (note months not seasons) in after I just started digging into the earth (no pick start just ore) -> Kobold Ambush! 12 friggin' Kobolds with daggers and stuffz. They ran straight up into my newly dug tunnel and butchered my dwarves within 3 seconds. Normally I appreciate Fun but this was even for DF a little bit too early to actually do anything about it.

So I guess I need now defenses from minute 1 on.

Anyway up and again

Regards

[StagnantSoul]

This was more of a win+facepalm- I had assigned most civilians minus the ten miners and one woodcutter to squads of mace, spear, and sword dwarves, all their metal being bronze, with shields being wood, legging, boots, gloves, cloaks, hoods, and secondary armor being leather, and a metal mail shirt and helm. So I set these guys up pretty fast, had tons of screw pumps constantly working to gain attributes, and a pet-innaccesible hallway between the food and booze stickpile covered in 4 training spear traps going on and off constantly. Everything worked well, until a migrant wave of ten fresh dwarves showed up. Assigned these guys to their own squad, and they went into a naked rage a month into their service, as I forgot to make them armor too. Then, a few grizzlies near their area just ripped them apart in seconds, so nothing was really wasted. Just one missing migrant wave, no one ever saw. Now, to get those guys making armor again...

[Jigowah]

I tapped into a river from below it for a new well, and somehow instantly killed my miner/expedition leader/bookkeeper digging it out.  I cannot get his body or gear out without a universe of trouble so I just open the main floodgate and continue.  I forgot that the well was way below the river and now the nice well room I created is flooded entirely.  Quickly forbidding the doors saved the rest of the fortress.

I was able to recover by simply creating a new well above the old well and treating the old room as a big cistern.

The miner DID become a ghost but an engraved slab cured me of that and his body was never recovered.

The shame is that prior to this stupidity this fortress was a model of success and efficiency!

[Sus]

Note to Self:

Build a well before designating a hospital.
Otherwise, dwarves will plop down in hospital beds to heal minor bruises from some fisticuffs or whatever, and consequently dehydrate to death because nobody bothers to carry them water all the way from the river. 

Also, it's a good idea to designate at least one dwarf as a nurse with only the "feed patients and prisoners", "food hauling", and "water hauling" labors enabled, if you intend your war heroes to survive their trip to the VA clinic...

[Illogical_Blox]

Well, I was reading this thread, and noticed someone boasting about his dwarf, who was great at a bunch of skills, including military and social skills. Basically, Urist McObviousvampire. *sigh*

I have also groaned at my dwarves cruelty towards each other - I got one dwarf carving another surrounded by moon snails (which he hated), looking "terrified." 

That world's history was weird. There was 3-4 statues/engravings of giant lions attacking humans/elves. Pity I wouldn't have that on my current world, as it only has a 5 year history - only way I could ensure survival of the majority of civs.

Oh, and I once was panicking because the letter keys would not respond in DF - it was a while later that I realized that I was in CAPS LOCK.

[Tacomagic]

Oh, and I once was panicking because the letter keys would not respond in DF - it was a while later that I realized that I was in CAPS LOCK.

I wouldn't feel too bad about that, I do this at least once a week.

[Tacomagic]

Dug down through an aquifer thanks to a very handily placed vein of Magnetite.  Figured I'd mine out the portions of it that weren't damp.  Designations somehow screwed up and created a flood.

Unfortunately, I didn't think ahead far enough to actually dig all the way to the cavern as a drain.  So, I figured I could salvage it by building a wall where the flood was coming in.

I end up building the wall in the wrong spot and the shaft completely floods, chasing out my workers.

Well, I'm no stranger to aquifer piercing, I've done it dozens of times, so I figure I can drill down through it in another spot and come up from below, drain out the flood and finish the wall.  But, during my pierce I make the mistake of channeling the wrong spots creating a setup where I can't actually pierce.  Fabulous.

Undaunted I try again, this time my setup is correct, but my execution is off and I actually dig up/down stairs BEFORE I place the hatch cover.  So, another failed pierce.

I try a third piercing.  This time my execution is flawless and I start getting my drain set up.  Then I get the message that a dwarf has been found dead.  I go back up to the top, and find that an alligator had wandered into my fort, become enraged, and killed everyone.  He proceeds to sit in my meeting area and wander in a slow circle.  Since I was down to only one dwarf I figured I'd just leave the meeting area up and see if Urist McMiner can land a lucky shot.

He didn't.

Time to roll up another fortress.

[Midboss]

Let's use the dump designation on all these stones in my hospital.

Why does my hospital no longer have thread, splints, crutches, powder, and buckets?

[FoiledFencer]

Troglodytes are flinging themselves off mushrooms and breaking limbs or drowning in the underground lake. I have no idea why, but I assume it's some kind of protest against my imperialist policies on their former territory. Good for them.

[pisskop]

My children feel the need to run out to not open depot and try to grab food when its forbidden.  Well, the very borders arent, so I guess . . .


They served as good bait for the zombies, who we opened the deopt to attract.

[MobRules]

Note to self:

Do NOT allow a legendary woodcrafter to make the fort's supply of wooden practice bolts.