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[Aspgren]

Not sure if this counts, but a dog protected the child by killing Michael Jackson.

Well, it does count for you getting on everyone's (hopefully) shitlist for having a terrible sense of humor, for what it's worth. I'm frankly disgusted.

He was already on mine.
I still second your input.

[Greiger]

I'm positive wagons "run stuff over". Seen it multiple times, and even recall in an earlier version when I had combat reports on.  The horses will attack and sometimes the merchant will.  I recall the wagon itself even attacks, using the basic push attack, which with a good size difference can be lethal.  That ends up looking like its running something over quite nicely.  Those would all be generally low power attacks as well, which would hurt something quite a bit in multiple locations, but probably not kill.

I tried to locate the log but no such luck, seems I deleted it when updating.

I am doubtful about wagons running over merchants and liaisons though.  Unless the merchants are in a civ that's at war with the wagoners(in that case I would imagine you would have more entertaining things happening when they meet).  It just doesn't make sense that they would attack, and I observed stuff getting run over by allied wagons all the time to no ill effect.

[Shiv]

Well I haven't been playing very long so I don't have quite so much to be surprised (bitter?  jaded?  Pick your favorite adjective) about, but today something did surprise me:

A dwarf acted smart!


I had just finished my cistern system with an automatic pump down and a series of pumps up (the cistern is 10 z levels down).  So I run the first pump and it fills up.  Unfortunately I forgot to put a lever on the first gear mechanism so I couldn't shut it off.  Luckily I had already put the pumps out in and so I switched those bad boys on and everything was peachy.

The problem occurred when I finally got the switch installed and turned off the first pump.  You see, the first pump had been draining the river at that spot and so allowed for a place for all my water that I was pumping out to go.  However, when I switched off the in pump, the river + the dumped water met up and filled up the void left by the in-pump.  Quite quickly too.

After that, there was no where left for the water to go, so it flowed up into my water wheel chamber and out the banks of the channel (right into an elven caravan at that).  So before it got too bad, I ordered the whole system shut off.  Here we get to the smart dwarf.  He goes in, turns off the pump, but by that time (because for some reason I decided building the lever on the far wall was a good idea) the rest of the room is 6/7 and 7/7.  But there was still the stairway that led down to all the other pumps.  So he nipped down there. 

Now that alone surprised me.  I figured he'd just stand around or try to go out the way he came, and die.  I had already ordered a coffin to be built too.  Instead he goes down stairs to dry land.

Well, the water above, eventually drained down below too.  So what does he do?  Nips back upstairs while it's all draining on top of him, but I guess as it drains it doesn't count as actually being there or something.  By the time he got back up top, the top was down to 3/7 and he sauntered out of the room as if nothing had happened.

And the elves survived too!  Though I do have a rather large pool of water outside.

[Magog]

So it's the second year of a new fort, the kobolds start ambushing... I've got a marksdwarf at his station outside the fort walls (the other is asleep)... the kobolds start charging but he stands his ground, he would of died... but he got caught in one of our cage traps... saving him.

[Vampire Penguin]

I had a legendary stonecrafter (useless) get stabbed in the heart and both lungs (lolwut), then collapse and bleed. I notice later that I am running at about 1 FPS, and wonder what the hell is going on. I look at the announcement screen and see said dwarf spamming interruptions from the goblin, now halfway across the map. It takes about 3 minutes for him to die and end the lag.

And yes, wagons run things over. I had it happen to kobolds many times. They just don't run over friendlies.

[Starver]

And yes, wagons run things over. I had it happen to kobolds many times. They just don't run over friendlies.

IMHO that's probably character-on-character damage, though in my experience a hostile on the loose in the path of the wagon does damage to the horses and/or merchant rider/driver/drover/whatever.

Though that's usually an actualy fully-armed Hostile/Invader.  And the wagon often 'dies' if there aren't any outriding mercs keeping an eye out, and the rest of the wagon train tends to turn tail and depart even if only slight damage occurs.  Though in the first year or two a wagon train and armed escort can actually be a saviour, dealing with a threat I might not have been fully prepared for and coming in to exchange my fifty tons of stone earrings for some much needed booze and food.

Maybe if the wagon/merchent entites took a dislike to whichever not-traditionally-hostile guy the OP on this subject talked about, for racial reasons or just 'because', they stomped him into the ground, much as they can try to do at other times (though I still think it's far easier to explain with a weaponised escort accompanying),

But that's only my perspective, and my interpretation, and without intimate knowledge of the code I could be misexplaining it much like the theory of Phlogiston was an early attempt to explain the concept of combustion and oxidation,

[smjjames]

A legendary stonecrafter isn't useless. You'll get masterwork goods which will make big bucks if you trade them.

[JNewt]

Unfortunately, he chose to walk along the 3 tile-wide hallway at the same time the merchants left. Wow, they were going so fast that he never saw them coming.

Did you just tell us that you had a guy run over by a fucking wagon? Seems to me that you and me are playing very different versions of DF. Mine's 40d11 and yours seems to be something around 40dmakingshitup or 40dtryingtoohardtobefunny.

I don't know exactly what happened, but he was walking along, the wagons + merchants passed "over" him, then he wasn't moving and was blinking brown. I hit 'k',  put the cursor over him, and he was stunned or unconscious with a broken leg. It could have been the wagon, an animal, or maybe he just got punched by a human caravan guard. As far as I could tell, there weren't any hostiles present.

[Chicostick]

My most recent fort has two things that while maybe not surprising struck me as "odd" or, "wow these dwarves are idiots."

One of my original seven managed to get injured in a Kobold ambush and spent awhile with a broken leg and currently still has a mangled lung. The problem is his lung means he can't breathe well, and he isn't tough enough to keep powering through being winded, so he passes out. A lot. I got spammed with "Urist mcwinded cancels job, unconcious" forever, so I turned off all of his jobs. However, some of my dwarves keep throwing parties, and since he never has any jobs he's friends with a lot of people. So now I get spammed with "Urist mcwinded cancels attend party, unconcious." I guess the parties are to intense for him.

The next thing that happened was near the top of my magma pipe. A Fire imp popped out, and the marksdwarf that had been taking care of them dodged right into the lava. Then the other marksdwarf started to run, apparently he had run out of bolts and didn't get more. He also had a pet Mule, which would follow him everywhere. Well, the fire imp chased the marksdwarf who was running, and the Mule kept chasing after the marksdwarf and running from the imp. So they kept following each other around and around the magma pipe over and over, they went around in a circle at least two dozen times before they stopped. I kept waiting to hear Benny Hill's Wackaty Sax start playing.

[Slanted]

Running through my Dwarfs relationships, I keep seeing a Mr."Cobosoa Ransackcactus the Good Troubles" - A Tyrannosaurus. He evidently attacked their first Mountain Hall in the first couple years and devoured the leader. He evidently made quite an impression.

My Dwarfs are worshipping him as a God.

[milaga]

I had a legendary stonecrafter (useless) get stabbed in the heart and both lungs (lolwut), then collapse and bleed. I notice later that I am running at about 1 FPS, and wonder what the hell is going on. I look at the announcement screen and see said dwarf spamming interruptions from the goblin, now halfway across the map. It takes about 3 minutes for him to die and end the lag.

Sometimes you get to a point in the game where those interruptions become too annoying. I used to turn them off until one day I was surprised to see my gemcutter cut down. Before I could pause it my carpenter followed. A giant bat had gotten in through my river drainage tunnel when I shut the water off to dig more tunnels. I was busy watching my masons construct fortifications on the surface, expecting an ambush. I had no clue that the bat was below maiming my crafters. I think I lost seven of them before I could recall my army back to the lower levels. Sometimes I wish there was a "Dwarves stay the hell outside" option.

[Rose]

Sometimes I wish there was a "Dwarves stay the hell outside" option.

don't worry, the next version has it.

[Red Minjo]

While not actually my dwarves, the caravan from my Dwarf Civ always has this one wagon that moves at stupidly high speeds.  It's the first wagon of the bunch they bring, and it gets to my depot in about 10-15 seconds.  All of the other wagons can take a minute or so, depending on the tree growth and lag.  I wonder if the wagon accidentally got some levels in agility somehow, because even chugging along at 10 FPS (pop 205, 82 children.) it blazes to my depot.

Also my Picturesmith got better and happier just recently, but doesn't seem to want to make pictures of all the seiges she was unconcious for.  And a war dog I chained up one tile southward to some stairs is one level up and NorthEast of her chain.  Seems to be stretching the one tile rule a bit.

[assimilateur]

While not actually my dwarves, the caravan from my Dwarf Civ always has this one wagon that moves at stupidly high speeds.  It's the first wagon of the bunch they bring, and it gets to my depot in about 10-15 seconds.

I've seen that too a couple of times, though by no means "always".

Picturesmith

Did you mean: engraver?

Pro tip: to avoid sounding ridiculous or childish, don't make up nonsensical names for things that can already be well described using standard vocabulary. Or if you do, at least don't share them with the public. Thank you.

[Kavalion]

Pro tip: to avoid sounding ridiculous or childish, don't make up nonsensical names for things that can already be well described using standard vocabulary. Or if you do, at least don't share them with the public. Thank you.

Although I imagine the public dislikes needless scolding much more.