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[Time Kitten]

Woah, 2 anvils?  You're dwarves skills can't have been great...

7 5  4  basic peasants, low resource challenge.and both anvils stay, or the fort stops being Nobzitar.

[zchris13]

Yeah, if you really suck at making anvils, I guess.

[boonshanka]

Early on in the game I feel like I have fancy plumber shoes and I want to try them out.  I build a nice well a couple z-levels down with the water source, a couple z-l evels up ;p This is when I discover that the water not only fills my wells, but my fort too! Damn you water pressure.  On a happier note, I discovered that diagonal plumbing resets water pressure (from the wiki). That made my day.

Too see diagonal plumbing ;p Click Here!
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Aaah and digging a huge pit using nothing but mass dig and channels... and then discovering the The Dwarf Support Mechanism Demolition Technique.

Awesome thread by the way If only I discovered it when I first started playing! haha

[Leafsnail]

I always build my wells on top of rivers and wall off a small area around them.  I blame laziness.

[dogstile]

discovering the d->b menu.

oh god, the finger-destroying ages spent with the k tool manually dumping individual stones

*facepalm* you have got to be kidding me... its that easy?

[Efun]

discovering the d->b menu.

oh god, the finger-destroying ages spent with the k tool manually dumping individual stones

*facepalm* you have got to be kidding me... its that easy?

*pats on shoulder* I was like you once... Yes, it is that easy.

[AtomicPaperclip]

(recent)

I had been anxiously waiting for a moment to lower my bridge in a very high traffic area.

FINALLY there was a break in dwarf flow and I pulled the lever

After a large series of announcements I realized that lever was connected to TWO bridges.

[Chicostick]

I was hooking up a waterwheel to an underground river. In the process of expanding to put more in, I channeled out an area. Then I looked down and realized that I had just opened the river up to my lower floor, flooding the entire area. I tried to get my legendary miners to build walls, but I couldn't get them to in time.

Oh well, I later opened that lower floor up into a Bottomless Pit style chasm, and the water spread out to an area about 20 squares across. It also managed to sweep a bunch of troglodytes down to a level and kill them all.

The bad news is I had opened up that floor right at the beginning of the underground river, on one of the tiles marked "waterfall." Getting that floor back isn't going to happen.

Oh and another tip, don't accidentally set a Ballista to "fire at will" when it's facing a crowded entrance hallway.

[Chalk]

Today, I learned the difference between a giant eagle and a skeletal giant eagle.

 

[Efun]

Today, I learned the difference between a giant eagle and a skeletal giant eagle.

 

Skin and meat and.... a brain right....

[Haedrian]

My face palm moment was when I discovered that cooking doesn't preserve seeds, and I had just 1 plumb helmet spawn and no plumb helmets.

Fortunatly due to the massive over-spawning of animals, my fortress survived due to all the meat. They were breeding so fast I needed to build 3 butchers with all the plutter.

[Doppel]

Finding the joy of the v button when creatures are standing on the same tile. Seriously, i've been playing this game for freaking ages without v, i guess brain injuries truly don't heal.

[CobaltKobold]

After a large series of announcements I realized that lever was connected to TWO bridges.

And the other bridge...?

[warlordzephyr]

When i realised that i could scroll down on the wounds menu to see if dwarves had spine injuries, must have spent alot on drinks trying to recover my throat after shouting at the recruits so much.

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