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[LordPorkins]

H2O=Death
Its science really

[Torrenal]

Only death through the whole ordeal is an infant who died of thirst, not in the pool, and only after I got the underground pool drained.

I've now got a couple adequate swimmers in my fort, and fraction of my military now dabbles in the sport.  Going to have to do a little research before I reopen the pool.

[Amperzand]

H2O=Death
Its science really

H + O2 + heat = FOOM == death.

[Pseudo]

Alternatively, FOOF == death.

[Torrenal]

Having my first real taste of the 'new' 2014 combat pathing.  Hasn't been an issue previously.  Now, the goblins climbed my outer wall (avoiding twenty-odd traps), and for even more fun, I'm watching my melee dwarves cling to the outside of my battlements.  They went up to the roof and are climbing down the side in an effort to more quickly engage the invaders in combat.

Next time I'm locking that hatch.

Edit: One of them was my Chief Medical Dwarf.  I need to watch that my nobles don't wind up getting drafted, I've gotta find a new CMD to patch him up.

//Torrenal

[spazyak]

found adamantine, but my best dwarf and military worker decided it would be best to mine on block that I had canceled to be dug when I discovered magma, he ended up flooding a good chunk of the fort and killing 3/4 of my miners.

[Nyxalinth]

Oh my god. I have played dwarf fortress since 2009. This morning I started a fort, only to realize that I had no mining picks. No building materials. No axes. This could have been salvaged, because a quirk in the game means that wooden training axes can be used to chop down trees, but I had no wood. So I abandoned the embark...

...only to realize five minutes later that i could have scuttled the damn wagon to get wood, make an axe, cut down some trees, burn the wood to make charcoal, built the smelter, and forge picks.

My boyfriend had lost his dorfs in the first five minutes due to not designating safe paths for them to walk, and they fell in the river and drowned. We give him loads of shit about this. Now he can tease me instead.   

"Can I 'axe' you something? Hahaha!'

[Pseudo]

You can actually survive even without that.

Either via trading, or, if you don't have enough to even do that, via collecting clay or sand or melting stuff to make blocks to build the depot (although these require magma that's accessible), or if you don't have enough to even do that, via killing traders (as they'll probably have enough logs / bars / blocks to start bootstrapping).

[FortunaDraken]

Dwarven caravan arrives! Hooray! There's five caravans and a ton of single merchants, damn. Time to put all this stuff to use!

...then they all pack up and leave because I slaughtered a giant toad. A TAME giant toad. They freaked out about a TAME GIANT TOAD.

Never have I been so pissed off at these idiots than now. Calling bullshit and force-quitting. I want my stuff damnit.

[KillzEmAllGod]

I remember learning why to forbid items on death. I broke into HFS only for my dwarfs to drop their gear trying to get better ones from the ones that died.
Then there was the time fighting undead, my dwarfs died because they got tired from fighting.
Once I embark in a great location though the world had an evil ocean around it and the rain from it killed my dwarfs on the non-mountain side when it started raining.

[FantasticDorf]

I once built a crude evil frozen tundra fortress just under the surface layer of a beach at the 'south pole' of my world, it actually was my proudest embark until probably at least two years in, knowing little about the consequence, i built a room for my kitchen, and when wintertime came the weight of the snow above coupled with the snow that was already on the ground collapsed the ceiling of the area, destroying the workspaces and wiping out my adjacent food stores (i managed to hastily fix it after, but all my dwarves began starving and there was little chance of waiting out and buying out enough food to support them all from the next caravan so i abandoned it)

Lesson learnt. 

[LordPorkins]

I once spent 1/2 an hour furiously trying to get my dorfs to smooth their glorious dining hall, then i realized it was built out of dirt. :-/

[Kaelem Gaen]

I just had one now.   Building a Tavern and decided to clear out an open space for the main meeting hall give it a sort of Balcony, so I started removing floors forgot to do it a row at a time,  had a collapse and killed my Tavern Keeper...


RIP Zefon Gigintobul

[Wheeljack]

In the excitement of the new release yesterday, I rushed through everything to get to my embark. Did I forget anything? Surprisingly no. No, ten minutes after designating a twenty tall staircase straight into the earth, I stopped to wonder why the miners had only dug out the first two levels.

Five minutes of head scratching later I realized it was all downward stairs. *facepalm*

[Lossmar]

>made my own custom embark profile
>pretty minimalistic
>start up fort, everything goes smoothly
>dug up some nice rooms, even my OCD is satisfied with this
>ok, time to setup some more advanced industry
>try to build metalsmith workshop
>THAT FUCKING FEELING WHEN I FORGOT TO ADD ANVIL TO EMBARK

Motherfucker ..... T____T

Is there a way to add one small anvil to my save ? Sweet jesus i dont want to start over AGAIN, its like my 10th fort in the last 72 hours..