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Goblin Siege

123 (14.9%)

Tantrum Spiral from guy wanting shells

107 (13%)

stupid elves attacking my fort

2 (0.2%)

Magma and Elephants!!!

13 (1.6%)

Stupid elves and lava

2 (0.2%)

Starvation

51 (6.2%)

Dragons and Titans and Forgotten beasts. Oh my!

69 (8.4%)

Fortress Flooding!!!

32 (3.9%)

Demons!!!!

42 (5.1%)

Human Siege?

1 (0.1%)

Kobolds?

14 (1.7%)

Other

367 (44.6%)

Total Members Voted: 819

[SpacemanSpiff]

Sounds like both miners have to die, and quickly.  Draft everyone else and dogpile them. 

Then, instead of going down to the caverns, you could either collapse a surface section with food and plants, or release your pets onto the surface as sacrificial bait before sending a few dwarves out to retrieve supplies.

[Orris]

my own goddamn sense of perfection

what.. oh shit! that one room five floors down does not ALIGN TO THE MAIN STAIRCASE! NOOOOO!

This, this, a THOUSAND TIMES this.

I restarted a year-old fort because I realized my meeting hall was one tile off from being symmetrical to a workshop room half the fort away.

I am so goddamn messy in real life, why do my forts have to be completely and utterly perfect?

[Eagle_eye]

oh also, crying and pleading for the caravan to come because my cistern wasn't full enough to have a well when the winter freeze came.

[TomiTapio]

I feel that the leading cause of fort failure is the 'learning curve'. right now i am still trying to re-learn the military in the new version, and not dealing with it in the best manner yet.

I suggest embarking with 3-7 short swords, and never crafting crossbows(clubs) or training weapons. Make a short-sword and metal armor uniform and never command an uniform change after the initial one the squad gets.
Un-designate barracks to stop them from training. That's what I do.

[grufti]

Bugs - most of my fortress end atm with bad, bad bugs. I can cope with lost dwarfes due to tantrum spirals or due to goblin master lashers (they seem to be really badass in the latest versions), but I can't bare a screwed up military, health system or some other plot stopper alike bug.

[TomiTapio]

That's when Ost, the towering humanoid of horn silver arrived. So I sent my military to fight, again.
Whatever it was, Ost took blows like being slapped with wet noodle, and one by one, punched my poor military to submission, crushing skulls and so on. And then he/she/it grabbed a pair of masterpiece steel greaves from one of my soldiers, and began beating everyone to a pulp with it.

Yeah, the non-flesh FBs spell "fortress over", being quite unkillable. I had a giant FB made of Amber, slowly harassing my people after being broken in all body parts. And being in Genesis mod, the paralysis-breath dwarf's breath suffocated 90% of my 30 war dogs. (Deleted firebreath/webber/paralysisbreath from dwarves after that.)

[Virodhi]

I keep falling off the catastrophe curve. Keeping moody dwarves happy? No problem. Keeping the stumpy bastards fed? A bit of a dance, but mostly okay. Sieges and ambushes? Traps EVERYWHERE. Dealing with a population boom, particularly nobles who want everything yesterday? My perfectionism makes me fall behind, and...well...splat.

I think the game is catching on too. The second I start feeling good about myself, BAM! A craftsdwarf decides to prove that they are indeed all bastards and makes a 200k useless artifact, and suddenly I'm hip-deep in migrants and lesser evils.

[afoninv]

My .31 fortresses are lost mostly to pathfinding. And that's annoying.

[Psieye]

Yep, +1 to Death by Boredom tally. It's why megaprojects are so popular - there's nothing else to do in the lategame once your fort is fully settled. Years in the future that'll be different, what with the Army Arc and Caravan Arc, but right now it's about waiting for death by either FPS or getting some unkillable thing (either Forgotten Beast or opening up the Final Spoiler... which kills FPS really fast).

[Truean]

My own insanity/OCD. It's not perfect... never perfect and I can't undig the squares!
It's either too inefficient or too square and boxy.

Must make it usable and yet a nice place for the Dwarves to live/work. They don't care that the ceiling is 3z levels high and made of gold?!?! They don't care about the artificial chasms between room clusters so they can all have windows with a view of artificially created tree ledges? There's not enough barrels for my 2000 booze and my food? A pet fox Squirrel and a Dragon occupy the same amount of squares? Can't kill the training dummy bronze colossi. Crossbows are bugged/broken in this version? No shells? He doesn't want the shells from my modified cave tortoise for his mood? The elves aren't dead yet? We're out of pizza...? [dead silence]

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AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!

Truean has canceled fortress design, too insane.

[LordSlowpoke]

Hmm. In 0.31.xx, it's been mostly failures in creating a Dwarven Microwave. In 40d, however, I had a wide variety of spectacular, not-so-spectacular and simply epic deaths, I even had a Boatmurdered-esque ending with only a kid sitting in a refuse pile surviving, scorched landscape and a lot of dead elephants outside, and of course, my legendary (according to Dwarf Companion a year before the end, lv. 62 wrestler and lv. 55 axedwarf) champion was on fire, managed to kill 96 dwarves before he succumbed to the flames, and a tantrum spiral that took it's toll near my artifact furniture stockpile. By reasons unknown, the child was ecstatic until the goblins arrived and cut off her head.
I didn't derail this, did I?

[ChJees]

Boredom\Low FPS

Mostly

[Particleman]

Yep. Boredom and FPS death have killed more forts than everything else combined. It's really not hard to make yourself invulnerable to pretty much anything.

Tantrum spirals would be second.

[Beardless]

Same as the guy a page or two back--f'ing CAMELS. 'Course mine were skeletal and wandered in before the first migration... That's the only time I've had a fort actually fall. My very first fort almost succumbed to dehydration over the first winter.

The entire starting group and first wave of migrants died, save one. I'm not sure how he managed to survive--I'd assume he was the one that drank the last barrel of booze except for the fact that he was complaining of dehydration before some of the other dwarfs--but he managed to keep going as twenty other stout dwarves lay down and died. The last expired in early Obsidian, over a month before the thaw--which naturally caught my survivor at the wrong end of the fort. It was a tense two weeks watching him slooooowly crawl the length of the fortress, emerge into the sunshine, and stagger another twenty squares to the nearest murky pool, where he proceeded to drink for another two weeks.

The first thing he did after that was declare himself the Expedition Leader.

Um. Back on topic: I haven't lost a fort to boredom yet, but I shelved a few when the new version came out, so I guess you could count that. So that's what, three for "Other"? (F'ing Camels, Dehydration, Upgrade)

[Jacob/Lee]

I have yet to open the new Fun Stuff, though my current fort is getting close to considering it. That may shake things up a bit. Though they're actually equipping both axes and armor, and training somehow, so I may do okay. We'll see.

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Not well, there is an army of undead waiting to turn your army to ribbons, then there are the forgotten beasts once you find out how to let them out. You will also get tons of lag because the zombies are rotting and producing billions of miasma tiles, essentially a giant smoke screen.

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Will they rot away in time?

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Eventually, but your computer might have a heart attack before then.