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[ThatZommy]

Encountered a blind cave ogre for the first time.
"Oh, they can't be too strong"
Sent a single axedwarf to kill it
Lost my one trained soldier
Sent my farmers to kill it
Lost a thresher

This is the point at which I decided to lock them behind a couple of doors and never mess with that part of the caverns again.

[Paaaad]

Encountered a blind cave ogre for the first time.
"Oh, they can't be too strong"
Sent a single axedwarf to kill it
Lost my one trained soldier
Sent my farmers to kill it
Lost a thresher

This is the point at which I decided to lock them behind a couple of doors and never mess with that part of the caverns again.

Doors? Pah. Blind Cave Ogres are Building Destroyers! _{Level two at that...}

[NESgamer190]

In a grand bout of panic, after having shortly dealt with a failed mood dwarf who went berserk due to silk, I wound up maiming a giant cave spider, and to say the least, I have only one thing to my mind:  Shame eternal.

Also, that which likely contributed is the fact I put hatches at the bottom of the stairwells, where they'd be ineffective at blocking off intruders.

[ThatZommy]

Encountered a blind cave ogre for the first time.
"Oh, they can't be too strong"
Sent a single axedwarf to kill it
Lost my one trained soldier
Sent my farmers to kill it
Lost a thresher

This is the point at which I decided to lock them behind a couple of doors and never mess with that part of the caverns again.

Doors? Pah. Blind Cave Ogres are Building Destroyers! _{Level two at that...}

Yes, I discovered this shortly before accidentally flooding the caverns with magma.
I decided to abandon the fortress when the injured began dying of thirst.

[FantasticDorf]

That moment when you feel dumb because you just screwed up your vitally important, intricate and well designed cistern & 3 level farming rig, all ready to go because you placed a bridge in the wrong place (the bottom of the cistern, so i can pull it away when im done with farming to fill a resovoir for my well/grate bathrooms) and mistook a up/down staircase for a floodgate.

*Inside screams of anguish*

Tracing proper proportions on ascii is hard. I swear the horizontal direction literally defies mathmatics, into tricking your brain to miss out a few blocks here and there instead of staying central.

[Fleeting Frames]

Which horizontal direction?

[FantasticDorf]

Which horizontal direction?

Every horizontal direction

[Dirst]

Tracing proper proportions on ascii is hard. I swear the horizontal direction literally defies mathmatics, into tricking your brain to miss out a few blocks here and there instead of staying central.

So your facepalm is for using a nonsquare tileset?

[FantasticDorf]

Tracing proper proportions on ascii is hard. I swear the horizontal direction literally defies mathmatics, into tricking your brain to miss out a few blocks here and there instead of staying central.

So your facepalm is for using a nonsquare tileset?

Not really as much as being disciplined enough to apply it without mistake. Don't get me wrong, when it's done right it looks great since having it entirely square might screw with my eyes after a while, ASCII can simulate a certain amount of depth with its slightly slanted use.

[AlBravo]

Digging a 'fort to magma' pit.  I accidentally nicked the caverns just as the miners were finishing.  The flying forgotten beast took a swipe at 8 miners on the way up who all dutifully dodged from the stairs to the shaft as they were taught.  Down go 8 miners into a mangled pile of limbs at the bottom of the shaft.  Luckily I had not opened the last tile at the bottom to expose the magma.  So at least they got proper burials and I recovered gear.

[ApatheticExcuse]

Haven't played since 40d. Jumped in again last night, thought I knew what I was doing. Lulz.

[TheDarkStar]

1. Connect bridge and lever.
2. Assign lever to be pulled.
3. Watch only appraiser move over bridge.
4. Watch bridge raise, atomsmashing the dwarf because he's over the tile that becomes a wall.

[scourge728]

I was trying to lower water from a pool into a cistern to be pumped and cleared... I screwed up the channeling and started dumping water into my grizzly bear breeding room.... good thing they all got out

[Derro]

1. Create burrow.
2. Designate both fortress's upper level and lower level.
3. Forget to designate area between those two.
4. Wonder why no one is getting any building materials from downstairs, or why the miners won't work.

[scourge728]

Wagons keep breaking themselves on corpses and it's really getting annoying