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[Horseplank]

Embarking in a place with no dirt/sand/loam and not realizing it until it was far too late.

[ungulateman]

^ Isn't possible - you have to have at least some soil to embark anywhere. You likely weren't digging in the right embark tile.

[Halmie]

Is that how it is impossible to embark on mountains?

[Herroth]

I built a big tree farm.  Thing covered 3/4 my bottom floor and used over 21k units of water.  Had a 6 z-level reservoir filled, and the pump turned off.  Everything prepped and ready.  Pulled the lever.
Two...
Frames...
Per...
Second...
For...
Two...
Hours...
But on the bright side I got some reading done

[Spaghetti]

tree farm?

[Loyal]

^ Isn't possible - you have to have at least some soil to embark anywhere. You likely weren't digging in the right embark tile.

No, I've seen non-mountainous, soil-less embarkable sites before. Usually filled with three kinds of metamorphic layers.

Anyway. I was sending a miner to dig ramps in all the murky pools in the area so that if someone fell in for whatever reason it wouldn't be an automatic drown.

A few minutes later I see a message about his Carve Ramp job being interrupted by a pheasant (dig deeper)... and shortly after, that he had drowned. :|

[Untouchable]

tree farm?

I assume he was growing Tower-Cap mushrooms.

[Spaghetti]

thats that stuff you start out with right?

[Kidiri]

tree farm?

Tree farm. The discovery of an underground river or lake will trigger an event which makes it able for you to grow tower caps. This is done by muddying underground tiles, which will then act like soil. Trees and shrubs spontaneously grow, but seeing it's undergrounds, the trees are tower caps and the shrubs are the underground crops. When you muddy the floor with the intent of growing tower caps, you make a tree farm. It's not like you build a plot and designate trees for growing. More info on the wiki.

^ Isn't possible - you have to have at least some soil to embark anywhere. You likely weren't digging in the right embark tile.

No, I've seen non-mountainous, soil-less embarkable sites before. Usually filled with three kinds of metamorphic layers.

Or ice. Embarking on a glacier will also remove all soil.

[Spaghetti]

wow thats a great idea thanks

Now my woodcutters wont get eaten by carps

[Grendus]

I had a facepalm when I realized the secret to getting marksdwarves to patrol right next to fortifications is to put high traffic designations next to the fortifications and low traffic designations behind them. Dwarves will stay as close to the fortifications as dwarvenly possible, only moving away to go around other marksdwarves. Line the parapets with stacks of bolts (I prefer to use excess goblinite, bone just makes the orcs itch) and you can cover the complete outside of your fort with very few marksdwarves.

I also facepalmed when I realized that the best place to engage bow or marks enemies is in the trees. Trees let you get to about 5 squares without them being able to shoot, and lower the collateral damage. Works great.

[sproingie]

Tree farm. The discovery of an underground river or lake will trigger an event which makes it able for you to grow tower caps.

I've done this without discovering either, quite by accident (they grew in the feeder pipe diverted from a brook for my cistern.  Moral of the story is pave over your pipe if you ever plan on shutting it off.).

[Slackratchet]

Due to over zealous typing I used a Bed instead of a Floodgate to hold back some Lava...

[Urist Imiknorris]

Due to over zealous typing I used a Bed instead of a Floodgate to hold back some Lava...

Ther was a noble sleeping in it though, so it's all good.

...Right?

[wagawaga]

Discovering that my new magma cistern in a glacier map suddenly melted down and somehow entered my fort. Fun since it destroyed the emergency lever, and was quite well pressurized.