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[Fleeting Frames]

You could deconstruct the wagon, but I think it is more awesome in the tree-house. Hehehe.

[Moonstone_Flower]

You could deconstruct the wagon, but I think it is more awesome in the tree-house. Hehehe.

The wagon's staying where it is as a reminder that wagons are not intended to be VTOL craft.  (The real reason is laziness and some level of what may be OCD, but it is also amusing to have a wagon stuck three levels up in a tree.)

Deconstructing it wouldn't help anyway, as there's a walkable floor there - all the supplies would probably just scatter around atop the tree's canopy.  I could have ordered the tree chopped down - one of the two that didn't immediately climb it was the woodcutter - but that would have likely resulted in six dead idiots.  Hurp durr, it finally dawned on me what you meant.  Unfortunately, that still would not have worked - I needed four stairs and the wagon would only provide three logs.

Edit:  I forgot to mention that the dwarfs started on a hill to the east of the apparently-a-VTOLport tree, so they were(past tense) all on solid ground initially.

Edit 2:  It was raining on arrival.  Presumably there was a lot of cloud cover.  This is why you do not attempt to fly under VFR in bad weather.  I'm guessing that dwarfs have no counterpart to the ICAO...  Do wagons even have avionics?

[Libash_Thunderhead]

I just realized I forgot to set stone property of the destination stockpile of a minecart qsp.

For years, the dorfs had been playing atlas stone until I corrected the mistake.

[Moonstone_Flower]

In a longer-running fort, one of my friends wanted me to name the cook after her.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

She's a lesbian.

Spoiler: The cook's name:  Imushkôn (click to show/hide)

Dikemasters.

*Facepalm*

She didn't know this before making her request.  I feel as though the universe is laughing at me.

[Fleeting Frames]

Digging, carving, building several parallel minecart kaolinite transport tracks...So I can turn them into porcelain and then use another route I have to bring the porcelain back to build site. When I have magma minecarts available.

>_>

[Pvt. Pirate]

i was wondering why my orders aren't done, until i foudn that my manager got killed during the last attack.

[Ultimuh]

i was wondering why my orders aren't done, until i foudn that my manager got killed during the last attack.

For a moment there, I thought you meant in real life.
But then realized what forums this was in.

[Dunamisdeos]

i was wondering why my orders aren't done, until i foudn that my manager got killed during the last attack.

For a moment there, I thought you meant in real life.
But then realized what forums this was in.

If you didn't roll a bald Lallfell with that Levi server name, that's another facepalm.

I'm just.... saiyan.

[Ultimuh]

i was wondering why my orders aren't done, until i foudn that my manager got killed during the last attack.

For a moment there, I thought you meant in real life.
But then realized what forums this was in.

If you didn't roll a bald Lallfell with that Levi server name, that's another facepalm.

I'm just.... saiyan.

Yes, he's bald. His job/class is.. uuh.. Monk I guess? Forgot the name of the class.. Was a while ago since I last played..

[Dunamisdeos]

i was wondering why my orders aren't done, until i foudn that my manager got killed during the last attack.

For a moment there, I thought you meant in real life.
But then realized what forums this was in.

If you didn't roll a bald Lallfell with that Levi server name, that's another facepalm.

I'm just.... saiyan.

Yes, he's bald. His job/class is.. uuh.. Monk I guess? Forgot the name of the class.. Was a while ago since I last played..

Bravo, sir.

[Vrakanas]

Had a new fort chugging along nicely when i notice my 3 legendary miners are "missing" along with my mayor and legendary weaponsmith(mooded). So i immediatedly go into vamphunt lockdown. I build the special cell, i check the wiki and forums on how to find a vamp. Finally think I've found em and i lock the bugger away as a bookkeeper for all eternity. I mean they met ALL of the requirements, the signs were there. Even the rediculous abundance of job skills and socials.


Fast forward 2 months, no deaths.


Then the bastard dies of starvation. Que panic mode.
Turns out they were an immigrant uberdwarf from an old fort i retired. And were related to half my fort....


Needless to say my fort imploded on a tide of blood and angry dorfs. Got the vampire though. Buuuut with only 6 of 93 dwarves surviving i just abandoned after sealing the site with a wall, roof, and floors.

It was my dorfnobyl.

[Baffler]

Was filling up a series of water reactors to power a pump stack. I usually dig out the water channels one at a time and fill them with buckets, but this time I decided to set up a water delivery system, with an inflow from the river, storage tank, and depressurizer sized to keep the reactors at the optimal 50 units of water. When I was filling up the inflow tank, though, I noticed that I'd forgotten to patch a hole in the side of the thing.

I struck galena a short time into the excavation, and the miner had got herself stuck up in the mined out ore vein when the others dug the rest of the tank downward behind her, so I just dug an escape tunnel. The water from the river rushed through the ore vein, out the escape tunnel, and had flooded a good portion of the upper level of the fortress by the time I stopped fiddling with the reactors long enough to notice the catastrophe. Luckily I'd thought to install floodgates at the intake pipe and it only got to 3/7, but sump-pumping the entire fortress and cleaning all the mud off of everything isn't gonna be fun.

[bool1989]

When I realized that the proper way to do multi-level rooms was to channel each level, not mine each level then channel the floor. I lost many dorfs to this method.   

[imperium3]

Finally channelled the riverbank to fill my moat.

Only, it turns out that the brook can't supply enough water. Not sure if that's because it's a scorching biome or the moat is just too big for the brook, but it's reached a steady state where the water evaporates as fast as it spreads. A third of the moat is dry and much of the rest is only 1/7 or 2/7 water.

sigh Time to build a pump stack/minecart track from the caverns...

[oldmansutton]

Finally channelled the riverbank to fill my moat.

Only, it turns out that the brook can't supply enough water. Not sure if that's because it's a scorching biome or the moat is just too big for the brook, but it's reached a steady state where the water evaporates as fast as it spreads. A third of the moat is dry and much of the rest is only 1/7 or 2/7 water.

sigh Time to build a pump stack/minecart track from the caverns...

I had this problem on my own map, also in a scorching biome, and then I realized.... oh... my moat has an exposed aquifer tile at the bottom of it, which offers infinite drainage...  so it's constantly draining about as fast as it fills.  Much facepalm.