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[PaperJack]

My dwarves spawned in the middle of a lake

[Grendus]

Had a giant bat systematically hunt and kill all my dwarves over two seasons. Just when it would be safe to go outside and cut another tree, boom "Urist McRedshirt has bled to death".

Out of spite, before my last dwarf died I removed the flier tag and drowned him in a murky pool.

[elizar]

Embarked, and a Giant Scorpion with a name and a title set loose on my dwarves. They all died horribly.

[KaziArmada]

Worst I've had so far is just noob moves making me embark on somewhere and unable to find dirt to make a farm...

Although the Giant Eagle on my current map keeps buzzing my front door...This could turn out bad..

[Grendus]

Worst I've had so far is just noob moves making me embark on somewhere and unable to find dirt to make a farm...

Although the Giant Eagle on my current map keeps buzzing my front door...This could turn out bad..

Put a cage trap there and sell him to the elves for a quick buck.

[Satarus]

Embarked next to a chasm.  I recruit my woodcutter and assign my wardogs to him so he can deal with the little beasties coming out.  He did a good job at it, but then the GCS kills him and almost everyone else.  The 2 survivors didn't last long on their own before more chasm critters kill them.

[Graven]

This needs a bit of a backstory.

Due to the world creator apparently being angry at me, my desired site (5x5, magma pit, river, flux, high evil) couldn't be found in about 40 consecutive worlds. So, when I finally saw all these conditions greenlit in the 41st, I didn't even stop to see the positioning of the features. I embark, pause the game to look for a suitable location, find one, set digging jobs and unpause.

And THEN.

All hell breaks loose. After a string of "interrupted by" messages I actually start paying attention to my poor dwarves.

It turns out the embark location of the caravan was right next to the river. And, maybe for the second time in my entire DF playtime, the river isn't a brook but an actual river. Lo and behold, the ghastly majesty of Skarp. A whole herd of them, gleefully devouring my starting dwarves in about 5 seconds. Shortest embark EVER. I learnt many things from that sole embark.

[Stargrave]

i once had a game start my wagon about 4 tiles from a magma pipe. i told my dwarves to take apart the wagon and a fire snake promptly climbed into my mountian of booze to remind me that losing is fun.

[WhatDoesThisLeverDo]

I had the apparently common embarking, then all my booze be drank by Dark Gnomes. Damn gnomes!!! This is in a place with no river of course.

[yaklin]

my worst was in a glacier map with an exposed magma pipe
right when i started digging a fire imp comes up and launches a fire imp thawing some ice which instantly refroze into ice pillars and encasing one dwarf in ice
five of the remaining dwarves die an icy fiery death
the last dwarf survived somehow with no wounds except both of her eyes were burned out
i tried to survive but she kept passing out before she could eat or drink
she died of thirst while the plump helmet she was holding withered

[Vieto]

I once embarked on a grassy area with an exposed magma pipe and a brook. I was between both features. I went to wall off the pipe, and start digging into the fort, when an imp started a fire (on a wolf). Because the booze was just outside the entrance. I tried to get my dwarves to quickly put the supplies inside. The fire caught up. I tried to get my dwarves to outrun the fire (the fire passed my entrance when my dwarves were outside) and they failed to reach the brook before the fire reached them.

[Albedo]

Spammed with messages about "X has been struck down", "Y has bled to death.  All 7 died before a door could get put on the badger warren.

What did you expect?

[Thexor]

Embarked on a site with some kobolds. I think, "Cool, I've heard you can claim their stuff for quick cash. And maybe they'll draw off a siege for me."


Turns out they were less than friendly.


And a spearmaster and a (non-elite) bowman were one screen away from my embark site.



 

[Duke 2.0]

 Jist remember folks, as bad as it gets, it can always be worse.

 My worst is embarking next to a massive river with a three-level waterfall. The waterfall was in such a way that the land surrounding it would start to flood. As in, the land my dwarves were in. So I rushed to get everything inside, only to find out there was an aquifer layer I had not anticipated. By that time i had hoped to get some stone and wall off the entrance. After several minutes of failed searching for a way through, the entrance has flooded. Soon after that, the fortress did as well.

[forsaken1111]

Jist remember folks, as bad as it gets, it can always be worse.

 My worst is embarking next to a massive river with a three-level waterfall. The waterfall was in such a way that the land surrounding it would start to flood. As in, the land my dwarves were in. So I rushed to get everything inside, only to find out there was an aquifer layer I had not anticipated. By that time i had hoped to get some stone and wall off the entrance. After several minutes of failed searching for a way through, the entrance has flooded. Soon after that, the fortress did as well.

That movie you linked, is that bug still around?