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[Deimos56]

We all make mistakes. Especially when modding. Sometimes they're blatantly obvious, sometimes you don't notice until it's far too late. It seemed like an interesting idea to ask what everyone's most Fun errors while modding were, and the consequences of the mistake.

Don't click any links unless you like getting spoiled.

This would be mine from several months ago. I think it actually got mentioned by someone last month. A bit picture heavy at the start.
Basically,

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I made an adventuring entity, and all involved races turned up in the pits. It also resulted in SoF corpses that really should be a block of ash or something. And some... creative engravings were on the walls.

...On a more recent note, my elves have been trying to sell:

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an adamantine pick. Maybe even the same one each year.

The metal this is made of, incidentally, is still deep and shouldn't be showing up like this. I don't think the elves are allowed to make that either.

So, what are your favorite/biggest/most Fun mistakes?
And if anyone has any thoughts on that recent bit of weird...

[NRN_R_Sumo1]

my cats shoot fireballs but are not fireimmune.

[KillerClowns]

The picks and their odd material choice, BTW, are what happens when a civ has to make something out of metal, but has no metal to make it out of.  (WOOD_PREF removes metal, unless they're explicitly given it again via MINOR_METAL or METAL_PREF.)  I once had tigermen making mauls out of the same material, because I'd only given them stone and wood to work with in their newly made entity definitions.
MY initial attempt to covert merfolk into an entity failed... when I forgot to replace "Aquatic" with "Amphibious."  Whoops...

[Deimos56]

The picks and their odd material choice, BTW, are what happens when a civ has to make something out of metal, but has no metal to make it out of.  (WOOD_PREF removes metal, unless they're explicitly given it again via MINOR_METAL or METAL_PREF.)  I once had tigermen making mauls out of the same material, because I'd only given them stone and wood to work with in their newly made entity definitions.
MY initial attempt to covert merfolk into an entity failed... when I forgot to replace "Aquatic" with "Amphibious."  Whoops...

Duly noted on the shiny stuff, thank you very much.
Also, fire-breathing cats. Do they shoot them at vermin?

[Doomshifter]

I made a bearman race and made two major blunders that I realised after I checked legends and read a rather epic battle.

1. I had forgotten to add [GRASP] tags to a custom bear body, so the bears were fighting TOOTH AND NAIL against, well, EVERYTHING. They had ethics that even the goblins disapproved of.

2. I had forgotten to remove all the super-boosts I gave to my dwarves (Speed:0, 99999 damblock, etc.) when I made the worldgen. Somehow, my bear race still manage to kick the everloving shit out of my unstoppable death-machine dwarves. I saw a pitched battle in DWARVEN favour and the dwarves LOST. Against unarmed (albeit very LARGE) bears!

[Danarca]

The picks and their odd material choice, BTW, are what happens when a civ has to make something out of metal, but has no metal to make it out of.  (WOOD_PREF removes metal, unless they're explicitly given it again via MINOR_METAL or METAL_PREF.)  I once had tigermen making mauls out of the same material, because I'd only given them stone and wood to work with in their newly made entity definitions.
MY initial attempt to covert merfolk into an entity failed... when I forgot to replace "Aquatic" with "Amphibious."  Whoops...

Duly noted on the shiny stuff, thank you very much.
Also, fire-breathing cats. Do they shoot them at vermin?

I remember reading a report that they actually do; the person in question had his booze stockpile boil up.

[Doomshifter]

The picks and their odd material choice, BTW, are what happens when a civ has to make something out of metal, but has no metal to make it out of.  (WOOD_PREF removes metal, unless they're explicitly given it again via MINOR_METAL or METAL_PREF.)  I once had tigermen making mauls out of the same material, because I'd only given them stone and wood to work with in their newly made entity definitions.
MY initial attempt to covert merfolk into an entity failed... when I forgot to replace "Aquatic" with "Amphibious."  Whoops...

Duly noted on the shiny stuff, thank you very much.
Also, fire-breathing cats. Do they shoot them at vermin?

I remember reading a report that they actually do; the person in question had his booze stockpile boil up.

I remember seeing the game glitch and turn into wizard fortress. Everything was on fire because a wizard fireball'd a roach.

[shadowsofwhite]

I had the same issue with adamantine when I made my own civ of drakelings (self-made race). Before I started using them in fortress mode, and also blocking invasions, I was terrified to find drakelings storming in, decked out in nothing but adamantine armour and adamantine weapons. Needless to say... that was Fun.

[Greiger]

Made Final Fantasy bombs once ages ago.  They sorta worked, if you killed one in melee something horrible happened.

That something horrible wasn't a firey explosion as planned but a firey crash to desktop.

Then after deleting them from the raws and forgetting to delete them from data/objects they showed up on a fort.  I had been playing for a year and a half without saving.  Then the hunter shot and killed a bomb, just outside the entrance of the fortress so not only do I lose a year and a half of progress I know exactly WHY I lost it.

D'OH!

[XmasApe]

While attempting to cut down on the excessive and ridiculous pet populations caused by immigration floods - in lieu of actually cutting down on immigration because that doesn't work - I took [COMMON_DOMESTIC] off everything but the Badger, a bigger-than-cat [VERMINHUNTER] with singular offspring.

Come autumn, the game stalls out for several minutes, then announces a caravan has come. After a little investigation, the problem becomes clear - the merchants have filled their inventory with Badgers exclusively, generating more than twenty pages of Stray Badger [Tame] on the Unit list.

Lesson learned: have no Domestic animals, or several.

[immolo]

I made a bearman race and made two major blunders that I realised after I checked legends and read a rather epic battle.

1. I had forgotten to add [GRASP] tags to a custom bear body, so the bears were fighting TOOTH AND NAIL against, well, EVERYTHING. They had ethics that even the goblins disapproved of.

2. I had forgotten to remove all the super-boosts I gave to my dwarves (Speed:0, 99999 damblock, etc.) when I made the worldgen. Somehow, my bear race still manage to kick the everloving shit out of my unstoppable death-machine dwarves. I saw a pitched battle in DWARVEN favour and the dwarves LOST. Against unarmed (albeit very LARGE) bears!

Unless I am mistaken the world gen only takes size and number into account when determining wordgen battles/civ power. If you had actually played the battle the bearmen would have gotten murdered ten seconds flat.