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[Frelock]

So, the new version certainly changed things around, and even experienced players can now make what will be stupid mistakes in a few months. 

What bug/feature/misadventure/fun killed off your first dwarf in the newest version?  And because I'm a firm believer in educating the masses, what lessons did you learn from this experience?

For me, it was digging down to an underground cavern, attempting to seal off a nice-sized plateau via channeling out a few choice sections, and getting a rude awakening when a miner was killed by a cave crocodile coming up the ramp that channeling now leaves behind. 

Lesson learned: Channels aren't moats!

Edit: Apparently, looking through the combat reports, it wasn't the cave crocodile that did the poor sap in.  In fact, the crocodile did absolutely nothing, except charge and knock the miner into the water.  After that, all his bites were deflected by the miner's pig tail socks and cave spider tunic, and the miner suffered no injuries until drowning.

[Alkyon]

I dug as deep as I could, and found out the hard way that vertical adamantium veins often hide empty pipes that go down several z-levels into HELL.  Meaning, it might be best to find another way through the magma lake than the convenient adamantium vein that isn't semi-molten rock.

All in all, it was a Fun experience, and I was mostly curious what the new system had to offer.

[FellMoodFox]

Might want to spoiler things about the Z-150 and below region even in a spoilery thing like this.
For me, it was the fact that no turtle meat I bought had shells D: So a possessed dwarf died.  Pity, I was hoping for some awesome artifact ._.

[Blacken]

I dug as deep as I could, and found out the hard way that vertical adamantium veins often hide empty pipes that go down several z-levels into HELL.  Meaning, it might be best to find another way through the magma lake than the convenient adamantium vein that isn't semi-molten rock.

But boy, was it awesome to see, huh? For those who'd like to see bits and pieces, I've uploaded a map here.

Might want to spoiler things about the Z-150 and below region even in a spoilery thing like this.

It says spoilers, they were warned.

[Alkyon]

Might want to spoiler things about the Z-150 and below region even in a spoilery thing like this.
For me, it was the fact that no turtle meat I bought had shells D: So a possessed dwarf died.  Pity, I was hoping for some awesome artifact ._.

Ah, well, I'll spoiler anything I find out about when I get below -150Z.  I found DEATH at -45Z.

[LemonFrosted]

First death was at +1Z from deadly rain. It might have been boiling, or possibly frozen and thus hitting my dwarves like bullets, but either way I had four dwarves missing their upper halves.

[Stromko]

Didn't lose any dwarves in fortress mode so far, but I've had two adventurers die. My very first adventurer died when he was sent to kill the Law-Giver of a neighboring town, who was some kind of badger-devil that kept expelling boiling poison.

I can't tell how much the boiling poison was hurting, it didn't tell me, but in two rounds of combat I was severely bleeding and in severe pain.

[RebelZhouYuWu]

My first death was an adventurer, I went to destroy an entire town, and had killed off most of the citizens.  I was feeling good until I wandered into the mayor's house where apparently all the remaining survivors gathered to ambush me.  Three children and a maceman at bottom floor, two rangers sniping me from the top with a fisherman guarding the only path to them, and by the time I realized I was in trouble two more citizens entered and blocked the door out.   I managed to kill one of them before my hand broke and I dropped my sword where I attempted to crawl out only to suffocate to death from the thousands of attacks.

[shadowclasper]

Man, mine's not even that INTERESTING. I just had a miner in a cave in drop into 7/7 water.

[Encased in burning magma]

Urist McDoomed cancels fishing: interrupted by Carp.

 

[shadowclasper]

Urist McDoomed cancels fishing: interrupted by Carp.

 

THE CLASSIC!

[Aavak]

My first death in fortress mode was a miner, as a few others have experienced. He didn't die from a cave in though, he undermined an area, then as I was channelling the floor away above the area he slipped with a small cave-in. It didn't kill him, just crushed his foot. He even went back to work (though he was in a lot of pain), however I couldn't work out for the life of me how to set up a hospital.

I tried all ways, tried just setting up beds, tried making a room from a traction table, etc. Nothing worked. I found out finally that you need to set it up using the zones menu. I think he was just getting diagnosed, or was on his way to get diagnosed, when he died due to the infection that had taken hold in his foot. Doh!

[Tarran]

Friggin skeletal Troll, it was invincible, all my dwarves, and all my dogs, even a reclaim with hammers/axes, it never died!, here's a tip for everyone; DON'T DIG DOWN TO NEAR THE BOTTOM LAYER UNLESS YOU KNOW WHAT YOU ARE DOING!

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skeletal Troll was in some ruins, stupid farmer, he lead the troll to my main base on the same area of the cavern.

Right now, I had to fight a

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forgotten beast.

He was no problem, but my farmer and all of my dogs bled out, making one of my miners berserk and the other stark raving mad. Thank GOD for those migrants!

[Karlito]

An Ogre showed up while my dwarves were still running around outside. After messing around with the military screens for a while, I gave my woodcutter a kill order to take the monster down. The guy drops his axe on the ground and rushes the ogre with his fists, gets beaten to a pulp, and then thrown into a pond where he downs.

[SimRobert2001]

no one died YET, but i did figure out that you have to put water down in order to farm. >.> *facepalm*

EVERYBODY is hunting for vermin.