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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

[Deus Machina]

Mine tend to either die of boredom or starvation/thirst of some sort after goblins and beasts team up and take over my farms and make the caverns unmanageable.

Usually, though, it's because a new version comes out. I usually hate just dumping a fortress, but eventually I start having the bright idea "I'm going to draft everyone" and don't actually give them any weapons just to sit and laugh as I turn the next major siege into little more than a huge drunken barfight.

[Chattox]

Either me doing something wrong (digging in the wrong place thus aggravating my OCD for uniformity) or goddamn goblin ambushes, or the tantrum spirals that result from them.

[Tahlin]

Going to order some up, Just like on the first page.
I : Why can't I dig that green thing(Grass)? What? People are dying of hunger? What the hell?
II : Oh. I can only dig this black stuff. DYING OF HUNGER AGAIN!? BUGS!?
III : I read a tutorial. AH! AMBUSH! The tutorial didn't learn me about this!?
IV : AMBUSH!
V : AMBUSH!
VI : Oh. I can use drawbridges and traps?
VII : Ambush! Haha, Tricked you. I caught those goblins in a trap.
VIII : Why is titan not caught in my cage traps? D:
IX : Forbidden beast ****ing ****.
X : You have struck adamantite! Praise the mi- 
XI : I can't believe my dwarves just got upset over a noble *disappearing*.
XII : Siege! Death! Everywhere!
XIII : (This is where I start actually knowing something about DF) That ugly wall piece of ****
XIV : Eww! I don't want to dig my fortress in this material!
XV : Read XIII and XIV about X more times.
Something like this.

[lava dwarf]

zombie spirel

[Kogut]

FPS deaths

[TomiTapio]

Boredom, boredom due to low FPS, the urge to create new worlds to test the tuning of the mod.

[Berlioz]

I'm at my third now, the first was a training fortress, lots of soil, metals, etc., a river, trees, calm enviroment, flux, no aquifer, the perfect training grounds. My personal garden of Eden. I followed the wiki tutorial and learned to play. After that I experimented a bit, I made it goblin-proof and built things like an aquaeduct [sic] for my hospital and got magma to my forges. Then nothing more happend and I got bored.
So first death is due to boredem.
Second fortress on a glacier, medium evil, high savagery (untamed wilds). Thought it might be more challenging, but it went too well. Got an artifact steel battle axe (160k) at the end of the first year, along with a legendary weapon smith. The created wealth drew lots of good crafters to my fort which created even more wealth. Pierced the caves at z-level 12! The only attack in two years was a beast single-handedly killed by a caravan guard. Then some minor ambushes, that was it. After three years I got so much stuff and dwarves, dug over 250 z-levels deep through 3 caverns that my fps dropped too much.
Second one died of low fps.
So after all the cold on the glacier I sent my dwarves on vacation in a sunny spot: the middle of the desert, scorching heat and terrifying surroundings. Should be fun!

Is there maybe a mod to make the game more challenging? Imho it's too easy once you figured out the basics. I found nethack to be harder.

[jesusmod]

Webs somehow got onto the many traps I had near the entrance of one of my fort. Everyone who left died on the traps. Then came the trap cleaners...

[Tryble]

Abandoned due to lack of motivation to continue, or wanting to start fresh on a new fortress theme.

[Aspgren]

I'm hesitant to count many of my forts as "abandoned" they've just ... gone unused for a very, very long period of time.

When the fort breaks and isn't playable anymore it is usually from tantrum spirals. At a few rare occassions it can be undead sieges but mostly tantrums.

[Sus]

Most likely a tantrum spiral due to either starvation, thirst or an ambush party of bowgoblins sticking my lumberjacks and herbalists full of arrows. That, or an engineering error allowing goblins to storm into the fort.

One fort fell to a FB webbing a whole lot of dorfs on weapon traps and kicking most of the rest in the head, shattering skull etc.

[Iceflame]

Abandoned due to lack of motivation to continue, or wanting to start fresh on a new fortress theme.

This!
But even then, I leave all doors open and cancel every Food/Booze-Production. Also the waterfalls are turned off, and all prisoners get released.

[Raxon]

I found the circus before I even had 20 dwarves.

Turns out it is possible to be too industrious.

[arzzult]

Wanting to start a new fort.
Wanting to gen a new world after thinking of something kinda neat to mod in.
Having to gen a new world after realizing what I just modded in was a horrible idea and needing to get rid of it.

[Broseph Stalin]

Boredom, after I get a stable fort going I usually gen a new world and start a new fort without erasing the older one then I do the same thing three or four more times until I can't remember which of my five forts is which. Then I decide I'll keep it simple by erasing all of them and starting a new fort with a large map and a nice long history then just playing on that forever and ever. Then I get that fort stable and the cycle starts again.