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[D34dlock]

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Just...

At least dwarfs can drink from it & get good thoughts.

[mate888]

Dwarves love to run into places outside of the designated burrow to go running trought the forest, climb a mountain, descend the mountain, and enter the other half of the fort to grab a forbidden barrel.
The other half of the fort was inhabited by a furious vampire.
If I had closed the bridges this wouldn't have happened.
There goes my only gemcutter.

[utunnels]

Screw pumps are so powerful.
As soon as the dorf began to operate it, it washed him into the lake. Then a second dorf came and replaced him, then died too. Then a third...

[MobRules]

Note to self: no matter how quickly the werelizard is killed, be sure to quarantine every dwarf that might possibly have come into contact with it.

[SimRobert2001]

Note to self: no matter how quickly the werelizard is killed, be sure to quarantine every dwarf that might possibly have come into contact with it.

Further note: Consider quarantining the dwarves separately next time. Two changed, and mauled a third and her baby.  They then attacked each other and one blinded the other until the next full moon.

[ajar]

I messed up my double aquifer breach, but didn't give up as I had invested a lot of time to run everything else in the fortress too. Maybe 2-3 hours.

Then I decided to do dual slit breach, but hit conglomerate. There was a GODDAMN THIRD LAYER OF AQUIFER!!! Maybe I should do more dual slit. *facepalm*

[JellyfishGreen]

df0.40.24 - getting back into DF after some years.
Walledcross in the year 256 was doing ok. Remote forested mountain, no enemy civs, but no water. Finally struck water in the caves at -110 depth. We had lost several injured dwarves to dehydration with no well, and more when trying to smash ice for water, hopefully that will end with our working well.

However the following cunning plan should be avoided:
Paranoid of the cave inhabitants, we built a deep barracks and gave it fortifications looking out over the cave lake. I assigned a squad to the barracks, which happened to be mostly wrestlers. I thought no more of it until I learned some wrestlers had been missing over a week.

Eventually I made the grim discovery of four drowned bodies in the cave lake, armor and all. It took somewhat longer to solve the mystery.

Dwarves can go through fortifications if thrown as part of a wrestling move. >_<

[utunnels]

I killed the outpost liaison by mistake.
I wanted the expedition leader to kill all the crundles so I selected an large area, include the liaison who just followed him...

Reload.

[Detros]

Dwarves can go through fortifications if thrown as part of a wrestling move. >_<

Old story, see 7444, "Sparring dwarves (and other creatures) can knock each other through walls with charge attacks".

[AzTech2064]

i had mine about half an hour ago...

i seriously thought that training a dragon to be a war dragon would be a good idea... well theoretical it is. i got that done in an older fortress in 34.11 together with a hydra (or at least i got that one tame enough that it didnt ran around killing my dwarfes after 10 years^^) so with the new version comes a new try at dragon taming ( still aiming for a dragon breeding fortress of firy doom) but this time i got a female one in year 2 and it ran straight in my cage traps. so at first i let it hang around in its cage for another 2 years until my animal trainer was legendary enough to even try to tame it, by the means of training every dog that reaches adulthood prior to butchering it. well that worked fine. i used all the precautions like training the dragon in an abandoned mineshaft that i seales of after the trainer in case of... well dragon rage and such. but the trainer made the job good and the dragon was "well tamed". after that i threw in a war training and thought it would be a good idea to let it lay eggs... so i build these neet little nestboxes right next to my boose stockpile and meatstockpile (you see where this is getting?) so the dragon layed 2 eggs shortly after and was still rather happy following my trainer all around, well that was until one of my cooks cooked the eggs into armok knows what. the dragon still standing around in the middle of the booze stockpile looks at her eggs beeing fryed to dragon omelett, and goes all firy doom on my stockpile... leading to a fort that can now be find somewhere on the moon... (there where about 5k of booze in that stockpile just for reference) and as i watched my fort explode i planted my head right on my desk thinking *how can someone be so dumb* well at least the civilisation got a little bit dragon lore before that happened making the next try a little easyer...

[reality.auditor]

I doubt tamed animals care what happens to their eggs. If this story is true at all, it was probably kobold thief spotted by dragon with predictable results (friendly... wait for it... fire) or something.

[AzTech2064]

hmmm i perhaps the dragon was not tame enough and went crazy because of too many dwarfes around or something. isnce i got no notification of any kind i dont think that it would be a kobold or goblin. he would have been seen by one of my 8 fishers^^ but when its true that animals dont react to their eggs being cooked than he has to got somehow aggressive... i mean its a dragon after all^^ god knows what pisses him off

[MobRules]

Note to self: when mass re-pasturing animals indoors after the caverns are breached, try to refrain from pasturing the cage-trap gobos with them.

[HavingPhun]

All of my cats are legendary climbers, that is all.

[Bumber]

All of my cats are legendary climbers, that is all.

They start that way. Natural skill.