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[CobaltKobold]

If a caravan gets killed it's tough to haul all of it, unless you have a bin surplus. This surplus generally won't happen for about 5 years from founding...

[Lukas]

I got really worried today, since my only miner (I only have one pickaxe) wouldn't dig out all designated areas I had set. I researched what ores made what metals to produce another pickaxe, I tried getting a metalworking system started, etc. I got very worried since I kept running into dead ends on possible solutions to the problem, and thought I would have to wait out a caravan to bring me a pickaxe, which would have completely stunted my fortress growth and my work on defenses. Turns out I accidentally deselected mining for him. *facepalm*

[Thanshin]

I disembark and watch my surroundings.

The cart is in a ery nice place, next to a brook and right inbetween a sand + coal wall and a magnetite + aluminum wall.

I think "yahoo! metal!", and decide to start my fort on the magnetite wall.

...

Yes, I dug in the hard surface, destroying the materials with my unexperienced miners instead of building a fast cozy entrance on the sand.

[InsanityPrelude]

Another siege. It was all going fine until the very end, when a bunch of dwarves decided to go grab something off the top of a partially-built tower. I didn't know orcish bowmen could shoot two z-levels above themselves!

[TrueAnkh]

2 goblin ambushes with about 8 goblins attacked at about the same time, and I didn't even notice until 3 of my dwarves died

It was a total mess afterwards. My defense at this point is a retractable bridge (it was down right then) in a moat completely surrounding my fortress with a bunch of stonefall traps. The entrance to my fortress is 2 big walled rooms (the entrace/trade depot and the well from last page ._.) since there's no mountains for me to dig in.

There was a thief at the start who got injured by a stonefall trap and was just hobbling a few feet and falling unconsious over and over again. I send my military to go catch him (they are very good at doing nothing when they're supposed to be on duty) and find there's a goblin siege. I put an order for only soldiers to go outside, but a bunch of peasants and other dwarves with actual skills go out and try to either bury the ones already dead or to get the items they had, which resulted in 2 more deaths.

My army is of 9 marksdwarves and 2 of them died to defeat the rest of the goblins and only one escaped.

50 dwarves turned to 43 ._. I wish the game paused to tell me about the first ambush

[geoduck]

I wish the game paused to tell me about the first ambush

It normally does: "An ambush! Curse them!"

[Djohaal]

Making a hole in the floor to allow water acess on my barracks and forgetting to add a grate. The soldiers sparred and fell in my cistern...

[Euld]

Reloaded an old fortress to try out something, and remembered the reason I stopped playing this fortress was because my crossbowdwarves weren't training with their crossbows and nothing was going to make them start.  Then I checked their inventory... every single one had something else in their hands 

[Dorfus]

My favourite champion, legendary hammerdwarf, about 60 notable kills, runs after a kobold wrestler. The wrestler sprints to the nearby magma pipe and simply plops my champion in. He burns for about 2 seconds (which I was impressed with). Wrestler was totally unharmed. Now all my engravings are of him burning. I've quit that fort now, I got so upset The facepalm is not walling off the damn pipe.

[CobaltKobold]

That is some smart fighting (by the kobold, not the hammerdwarf).

[Dorfus]

I like to imagine he stuck a leg out as the steel clad artifact hammer wielding dwarf rushed towards him with great speed. It was amusing, but terribly upsetting since I loved that dwarf, now he doesn't even get a proper burial.

[ungulateman]

Frying in the blood of Armok is a good enough death for ANY warrior. Especially your champion hammerdwarf.

[bmaczero]

I just discovered that you have to process turtles in a fishery before they can be eaten.

According to my stocks, I have 658 raw turtles.

*facepalm*

*sets craftsdwarf's workshop to repeat on shell crafts*

[Kidiri]

I just discovered that you have to process turtles in a fishery before they can be eaten.

According to my stocks, I have 658 raw turtles.

*facepalm*

*sets craftsdwarf's workshop to repeat on shell crafts*

You have to process any vermin-fish. And since this isn't doen automatically (yet, next releas will do it) I hardly ever mine for fish.

[assimilateur]

You sure? I thought it was done automatically as long as you had a fishery and your fisher had fish-cleaning on. That said, I don't really fish myself either, but for different reasons: it isn't sustainable, as far as I know.