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[Urist McTaverish]

So tell the community about the shortest forts you ever ran.  My shortest so far was an embark with a magma pipe.  A fire imp popped out as soon as I unpaused and shot fire right at my wagon.  Dwarf parts all over the place from the 100 barrels of booze blowing up.

[blue emu]

In 40d, I once embarked directly in front of a cave mouth. The occupants stampeded out and ripped my Dwarves to shreds. Some of them didn't even have time to jump down off the wagon.

[LoSboccacc]

tapped a river for irrigation.
learned about water pressure.

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started a fort over an aquifier planning to use wood for pumps.
embarked over a zone with no wood

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started a fort over a two layer aquifier and magma pipe. breached trough obsidian, dug upward for farming. subsequent flood killed miners and sealed their equipement.

[BigJake]

Embarked with only an anvil and a couple nuggets in an untamed wilds.  Spawned right next to a giant jaguar.  That cat was a f**king surgeon.

[Vehudur]

Embarked in a valley with a magma pipe in the mountains.  Accidentally tapped it about 10 minutes play time in.  Flooded the whole fortress - and they were all trapped inside.

[Eagle_eye]

I embarked on an island, saw the ocean was frozen, and decided to dig a fort in there. I forgot that it wasn't a freezing biome...

[rephikul]

Couple years ago....

Started up DF for the first time, looked at the screen, saying "This looks like crap" and abandoned. In fact, abandoning took too long so i killed the process and deleted the folder. Thus, not a single in-game turn was spent and all the 7 dorfs died a horrible death in the bit grinder.

[Derekristow]

Started my first fort in Untamed Wilds, found out that sasquaches are hostile about 10 minutes in.

[The Scout]

I embarked on a volcano. Right next to it when it started spewing magma all over the place. It seems they died of boiling booze instead of magma...

[Dok Enkephalin]

Embarked on a sinister land, surrounded by beakdogs. Tore up.

First reclaim effort, better equippped. Only three survivors, one went berserk on the other two.

Second reclaim effort. Same berserk dwarf ripped up all but three survivors again. One went raving mad and the others started getting ominously twitchy with on and off tantrums. I abandoned.

[Simokon]

I just found out that damp stone really is no laughing matter I washed out my entire fortress after being in it about 15 minutes.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

A failed well designed flooded my main hall with water.

[Zaik]

Embarked in a sinister area and a platoon of beak dogs killed everyone

[Shrugging Khan]

Try to dig moat to protect wagon -> Miner dies due to cave-in.

Embark -> Giant Eagle eats all dwarves

[ZhangC1459]

embarked in a place where the lakes freeze seasonally.  My wagon happened to spawn right on a frozen lake and I didn't know till it thawed, while ALL 7 OF MY DWARVES WERE STANDING ON IT.

They drowned.