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[Innominate]

"oh, cool, free mining pick"

It would have been awesome if you were able to dig with a looted pick in adventure mode. You can dream, right?

It would be fairly awesome to be able to mine out rock using a pick that's stuck in your eye. Well, next to the obvious weirdness and impossibility of having a pick stuck in your eye.

Make the change in bold to your body_default.txt file:
[BODY:2EYES]
[BP:REYE:right eye][CONTYPE:HEAD][SIGHT][EMBEDDED][SMALL][ RIGHT][GRASP]
[BP:LEYE:left eye][CONTYPE:HEAD][SIGHT][EMBEDDED][SMALL]

[yeznik]

Forgetting to place cage traps. It's even worse because I had the mechanisms and cages in spades! I didn't realize until a couple of Dragons appeared and began decimating my fortress. I lost almost all my dwarves to them and then I got hit by a few score of half-giants. All in the second year, curse my beginners luck!~

[assimilateur]

[BP:REYE:right eye][CONTYPE:HEAD][SIGHT][EMBEDDED][SMALL][ RIGHT][GRASP]

That is brilliant.

[kobot]

i created a fort which defends itself solely with swords, no traps, no crossbows, not even tricksy walls and moats to screw with goblin pathfinding, and i've been patiently building up wealth and immigratnts waiting for my first siege

it finally arrives, and i mobilize my swordsmen and send them out into the field
at that same moment a massive caravan from the mountainhome arrives from the same spot and the guards wipe out the entire seige less than ten squares from the edge of the map

not really a face palm moment but frustrating as hell and i dont know where else to post it

[Kidiri]

[BP:REYE:right eye][CONTYPE:HEAD][SIGHT][EMBEDDED][SMALL][ RIGHT][GRASP]

You punch the peasant in the right lower leg with your right eye. It is bruised.

[smjjames]

i created a fort which defends itself solely with swords, no traps, no crossbows, not even tricksy walls and moats to screw with goblin pathfinding, and i've been patiently building up wealth and immigratnts waiting for my first siege

it finally arrives, and i mobilize my swordsmen and send them out into the field
at that same moment a massive caravan from the mountainhome arrives from the same spot and the guards wipe out the entire seige less than ten squares from the edge of the map

not really a face palm moment but frustrating as hell and i dont know where else to post it

Caravans usually turn tail when a siege shows up. In fact, in my current fort, a spring or so ago, the elves came (with thier usual load of cloth.......) and seconds later, a siege arrived. I thought the elves would turn tail, but instead, they actually seemed to be running for the fort entrance and got there well ahead of the siege.

[Neruz]

Sometimes Caravans decide to carve swathes of death and destruction across the landscape.

[twwolfe]

Sometimes Caravans decide to carve swathes of death and destruction across the landscape.

and other times they become swathes of death and destruction.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Sometimes Caravans decide to carve swathes of death and destruction across the landscape.

and other times they become swathes of death and destruction.

Really? Usually they end up getting into my trade depot, then the siege gets to them, then I activate Project Deadly Entrance , and make them all dead and goblinite.

[Miliardo]

Setting up my pump system wrong, as a result flooding the only safe fishing spot on the whole map, killing two miners and a fisher dwarf.

Digging a channel, a dwarf fell in, I figured 'since he's down there lets have him knock out the few blocks he missed when he fell a z level' oopse I forgot that the level above would collapse on him >>;

Being stupid enough to save the last square between a tunnel for magma and the volcano for one  miner to dig out, the whole group entered the tunnel, 3 were vaporized on the spot, the last one to enter got half way down and turned tail to run, his cat burst into flames and he died not long after. Cue the basement of the fort flooding on top of it.

... man screwing up is fun.

[CobaltKobold]

Sometimes Caravans decide to carve swathes of death and destruction across the landscape.

and other times they become swathes of death and destruction.

This is a finely woven swath of death and destruction. The thread is red...

[Neyvn]

Working on a Mega Project, got to Autumn first year...
The Caravan Arrives...
I send my Trader to the Deport trade some goods then send him back to his office to await the Liaison...

No one appears to be chasing the Trader. I look around Map for some animal distracting him, look at unit list...
There is NO Liaison...

Open Civ "C" Page. Choose the Dwarven Nation. Jawdrop at the fact it reads...
'This land Has no Important Leaders'

Fuck... Start again I need that Bauxite that the Civ was spos to bring. And I am not relying on the RNG for trading goods...

[Moogie]

I just spent the last few (RL) days constructing, de-constructing, puzzling, planning, frustrating, tweaking, hair-pulling and waiting for my waterfall system to be built.

The water is pumped from the nearby brook and falls several Z-levels through the center of my fort. I carefully planned this so that it would have a clear path down the middle, unhindered by any expansion efforts I might make in the future.

At the resevoir at the bottom, I have three water wheels linked to a stack of pumps that are supposed to draw the water back up to a dumping location.

After several game years of trying and failing to get the waterwheels and pumps to power themselves properly, I was gradually getting closer to success each time.

Finally, after what must have been at least five entire re-designs of the system, it was working -- intermittently. Hey, partial success is still success, amirite?

So I happily sat there and watched a small amount of water work it's way up the pumps and towards the dumping location. Unfortunately, I had forgotten one very important... uhh, detail. The game suddenly paused, and I saw the message: "A section of cavern has collapsed!"

But that was no cave-in message... it was my water falling into the magma pipe and becoming falling blocks of obsidian. I had planned to dump the water into the magma pipe, evaporating it, as I had no bottomless pit to get rid of the excess with.

Due to this small oversight, my budding six-year fortress has been a complete waste of time.

[Sutremaine]

I had planned to dump the water into the magma pipe, evaporating it, as I had no bottomless pit to get rid of the excess with.

Water can be run off the edge of the map by carving a fortification into the edgemost tile. Hopefully you have enough space to redirect the excess water.

[happydog23]

Setting out to do a mega-project with the orc mod still installed.

8 game years setting up the fortress to support 50 dwarves, and have all the workshops and magma placed where I wanted it.

Finally ready for the brook to be diverted so that I can setup the obsidian farm AND use the newly completed but "un-wetted" drowning room to get some iron from the orc seiges. 

I go out, setup some pumps diverting the output to the bottomless pit.  Start building a damn in the brookbed.  3 goblin ambushes later i'm starting a tantrum spiral.  I don't really want to deal with it and fix it so I save-scum. 

I build a wall around the pumping area and connect it to my fortress.  Start building the damn.  Need more pumps to save my insanity.  Build pumps and extra diversion channel... It blocked access to the brook bead, so I built some ramps to get over the walls that were diverting the water.  Goblin ambush.... wtf?  OH yeah... ify ou build a wall against a mountain and then put ramps to get over the wall, people can walk from the mountain to your fort.  A few more ambushes later.....


I'm really debating the merits i put in to not having a military.  I'm also going to be an expert at river damning by the time this is over.  I've learned all kinds of tricks at this point.