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[Bumber]

If your fort's below, you can leave the bottom two levels unmined until after the cave-in. Digging through the entire mountain top with up-down stairs extracts the ore and allows for easier transport of the ores than a single shaft. Only after everything valuable is clear do you dig out the lowest level of stairs and trigger the cave-in from a linked support beam or from one of the edges.

The cave-in disintegrates the stairs, and you can easily mine out the bottom level the regular way.

[Fleeting Frames]

The cave-in disintegrates the stairs, and you can easily mine out the bottom level the regular way.

Cue muldrake designating the whole remaining mountaintop with d-d and killing every man, woman, child and cat in the  fortress.

[muldrake]

The cave-in disintegrates the stairs, and you can easily mine out the bottom level the regular way.

Cue muldrake designating the whole remaining mountaintop with d-d and killing every man, woman, child and cat in the  fortress.

Given the staggering level of bungling I've described in this thread, it is probably amazing I didn't actually do this.

[rosareven]

I built some catwalks over this soon-to-be-irrigated farm. After the rock floor has all been splashed with water, I deconstructed the catwalks.

"A section of the floor has collapsed!"

Instant dead farmer and another dwarf. I should have deconstructed it from the end tile one at a time...

[Derro]

Reanimating biome. Somehow, I manage to get a few migrant sheep safely in a pasture, and I decide to shear one.

Turns out that even if the base animal isn't dead, sheared wool still reanimates. Said reanimated wool is also still unkillable if it's small enough.

[ReynTheLord]

A facepalm towards the game when watching a stream

A brook which we could dig out/channel started bleeding after it took a life

[Bumber]

A facepalm towards the game when watching a stream

https://clips.twitch.tv/oaogigmaster/PleasantDuckItsBoshyTime

A bleeding river.

Link goes to a removal request.

[StagnantSoul]

Just lost my year's trade with the humans because I was somehow designating all the bins but not their inventories...

[gunpowdertea]

Just lost my year's trade with the humans because I was somehow designating all the bins but not their inventories...

Wait what.
I thought designating the bins automagically selected all of the stuff inside for trade - or has that changed? I usually don't do that as I am still in the "wood is scarce" mindeset from earlier versions. I guess that's a FP as well - considering I have a fuckton of bins around. Most of them are high quality as well. I should probably start to stud them with leftover lead or so, just to use up some of the metal bars in the stockpiles... (seriously, my smelters are all cluttered, my metal bar stocks are overflowing, and I'm still buying and melting all sorts of stuff from the caravans - he's a hoarder, it seems)
Plus the things it does to my FPS.

[Ironfang]

I need to figure out a way to dam a river. The thing is in a canyon, so that makes it much harder. By FPS is also near it's limit, so adjusting flow is difficult. When I last tried to block it up by using pumps, my FPS went into fractions.

Any ideas?

[Derro]

Combatshield is celebrating.

After much grueling experimentation (including the dismantling and re-assembling of the bridge), the silk farm is finally functional! Dozens of sheets of forest titan cloth have already been produced, with more to come. Our friendly guard captain is more than happy to step in and draw the beast's ire if needed, it seems.

The mayor (who, I found out, also serves as the fort's main butcher) revealed an unhealthy obsession with large gems when he told me to make one. Ah well, there's worse mandates.

A few sheep have been slaughtered to make room for the cow migrants brought with them. Their remains made fine additions to the menagerie already at the bottom of the garbage chute.

Really, nothing too exciting happens. The undead have been keeping quiet

[Inconspicuous]

When I get my symettry off.

[Fleeting Frames]

Any ideas?

Minecartfuls of magma.

[Prop42]

I spent about 10 minutes getting an embark ready, at which point the wagon spawned on top of a frozen waterfall in a hot area that instantly thawed, causing all my dwarves and their supplies to tumble 9 z levels down and splatter against the walls and floor.

[Fabo]

I made a military squad but forgot to tell them to train... they all got slaughtered by thee goblins