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[Trappington]

I'm trying to built a fort that grows its population mostly through births (migrant cap of 25). So I'm being really careful about losing dwarfs and encouraging pregnancies and whatnot.

A year in, a wereraccoon attacked and only infected one soldier before going down. That soldier now resides inside a tiny lockbox on the surface, waiting for when she's needed for defense.

Finally, the fortress had its first birth. Of course, it was the wereraccoon's.

(Strangely enough, once transformed the wereraccoon did not tear her babby to shreds as expected. So I guess I may have the fun of coaxing the child from the werebox a year from now.) EDIT: Nevermind, the valiant baby fell in battle

This is why I try to never put female dwarfs into the military.  Well, not the exact reason, or at least not the one I was originally thinking of, but ya know...it all comes with the territory right?

[alexs2112]

After almost my entire population of animals starved to death underground (around 200) I realized that my pasture was left unactive after a recent siege

[Detros]

It seems ice is maybe not the best material for building dams (bridges) in the river.

[Trappington]

So I had a trapped ettin, and I was planning on training up some marksdwarfs, so I contrived a live target shooting range using fortifications, a spot for the ettin to be released from its cage, and a drawbridge to seal everything up before the release.  Unfortunately, I got things a little mixed up, and the result was the ettin escaping the enclosure.  Fortunately my militia responded quick enough and the foul beast was slain after bashing one of my legendary cook's fingers.   While things ended up O.K., I still could kick myself for messing up with the levers.

[FantasticDorf]

Due to a error i think on the raws and a 10000 embark point shopping spree (apparently i have impossible things from the mountainhomes, like pig chitin in the place of silk bags) my future laboratory with my horribly deformed camel people assistants i set out with 20 live uncaged fire snakes without realizing until my wagon and everything around it (including my specimens for a secret project i might post on the forums for science about) were incinerated in heat on level par with dragonfire.

Back to the drawing-board. 

(2nd attempt, fudged it up badly by turning all my dwarfs into useless fish men - not related to experiment, can't access the labours but atleast the embark fishmen are intelligent enough to commit to jobs, raws messed up bad, commiting to reinstalling backup and recommencing experiment)

[TheBiggerFish]

Due to a error i think on the raws and a 10000 embark point shopping spree (apparently i have impossible things from the mountainhomes, like pig chitin in the place of silk bags) my future laboratory with my horribly deformed camel people assistants i set out with 20 live uncaged fire snakes without realizing until my wagon and everything around it (including my specimens for a secret project i might post on the forums for science about) were incinerated in heat on level par with dragonfire.

Back to the drawing-board. 

(2nd attempt, fudged it up badly by turning all my dwarfs into useless fish men - not related to experiment, can't access the labours but atleast the embark fishmen are intelligent enough to commit to jobs, raws messed up bad, commiting to reinstalling backup and recommencing experiment)

WTF did you DO?!

[Dozebôm Lolumzalìs]

Raw duplication?

[FantasticDorf]

Raw duplication?

I embarked with the fire snakes paid for (and bolstered the numbers to 20) because i thought they would be caged. 

No just a nasty case of getting my custom RAW code modifications wrong (for science & personal reference)

[BNDR]

Just recently

'Remove construction' on a 2x1 tower of up+down stairs. Suddenly.

"Something has collapsed on the ground."

Puff of dust on the ground, I think, OK!
Then:
"Urist McTrademaster has been found dead."

2 levels underground I see my master Trader and broker mangled crushed lifeless and dead, slammed thru the floors and crushed by everything possible that came down on him. God damn it.

Then the caravan comes. Needless to say, caravan made a lot more money than they should've that day.

[FrisianDude]

... I think I might have 'reclaimed' weapons militiadwarfs were attached to. 

[MoonyTheHuman]

trying to make water via magma + ice the wrong way, i froze 4 dorfs

[AzyWng]

I got my militia commander and a marksdwarf killed after they tried to fight a werebeast. 2 dwarves in the squad were observing the lockdown I had put in place and didn't die.

The werepig transformed into a dwarf. I had the two remaining dwarves fight it.

One hit caused the dwarf's neck to fly off in an arc.

If only I had waited instead of panicking...

EDIT: New facepalm moment:

Misspelling "Martial" as "Marital" on the forums. Twice. Three times, in fact!

[indyofcomo]

saw on youtube video that you could embark with training axes instead of copper ones to save points.
Removed copper axes. Never added training axes. Dur.

[Detros]

saw on youtube video that you could embark with training axes instead of copper ones to save points.
Removed copper axes. Never added training axes. Dur.

No need to worry

• Deconstruct your wagon to get 3 wood.
• Use one wood for building of carpenter's workshop.
• Use one wood for crafting of training axe.
• Enjoy your wood cutting tool and spare wood.

[indyofcomo]

saw on youtube video that you could embark with training axes instead of copper ones to save points.
Removed copper axes. Never added training axes. Dur.

No need to worry

• Deconstruct your wagon to get 3 wood.
• Use one wood for building of carpenter's workshop.
• Use one wood for crafting of training axe.
• Enjoy your wood cutting tool and spare wood.

oh, didn't think of that. Waited until autumn and traded for training axe.