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[Lord Bloody]

Hi there, first time playing and everything went well, with the newbie guide in the wiki, but I failed to consider sieges, and I had plenty of fun with my dwarfs dying while trying to get the items from their fallen dwarfs in the fields.

So lest see how was your first fun?

[Kay12]

I'm something of a perfectionist, so I've usually managed to find something wrong in my fortress before any real fun, resulting in most of my forts being abandoned after a season or two.

Nowadays, I don't play for perfection. I play for fun. That's what I got yesterday.


A goblin siege arrived. Didn't count 'em, I think there was almost 30 of them. Spearmen, led by a lasher. The save had been sitting around for a few months without being played, so I didn't remember I had defined a safe area for my dorfs who were busy hauling firewood from the outside. A few of them (luckily, all of them Urist McExpendables) got savaged in the process.

However, the Fun didn't end there, the goblins got to have some too! I fumbled with the military system and tried to summon The Gloved Roars, my elite unit, to destroy the goblin menace. That failed, but my traps turned out to be super-effective. I think the goblins lost some 15 soldiers before retreating - 8 of those were, much to their horror, caught alive. They got to have some serious Fun later on...

[Gatleos]

Hi there, first time playing and everything went well, with the newbie guide in the wiki, but I failed to consider sieges, and I had plenty of fun with my dwarfs dying while trying to get the items from their fallen dwarfs in the fields.

So lest see how was your first fun?

I actually learned the bare basics of the game... wait for it...


WITHOUT THE WIKI


And as a result, my first fun was hilariously stupid. I got flooded by an aquifer, not because I didn't know how water pressure worked in DF, but because I was thinking "Ooooooh, pretty! I wonder what all those blue tildes mean? I'll mine into this hill to find out!" Turns out it's water, and Dwarves can't breathe in it.

[Johuotar]

Hmm, my first fort was not Fun but the second was because of FB with poisonous blood, and lots of dwarfs and creatures to move it around. Hospital was filled with dorfs with rotten feet...

[Oliolli]

My first fort, I hadn't gotten the hang of irrigation or butchery. All my dorfs died of hunger.

[Lancezh]

In that order "Fun":

- Fun of Thirst
- Fun of Hunger
- Fun not having ANY defence. 5 Goblins slaughtered the entire fortress
- Fun for having the Farmer walk above the frozen River (when it suddenly became fluid again) right when i started. No food - fun.
- Fun for not having enough Traps to fend off a siege.
- Fun for placing a Lever for the Floodgate in the same room, and then got flooded.
- Fun with a big dragon and presenting him a wooden bridge.

[Draxis]

My first Fun was in my third fort, I was building  a Goblin Grinder hallway as an emergency backdoor, but the hatches were not yet hooked up, and when there was an ambush I forgot to lock the door.  This was also before I understood the military system.

[PotatoLord]

My first Fun can be summed up as follows: "How do I make farm? This guide says I should put it on a soil layer. Where are those? Why is a grizzly bear mauling my brewer?" My second Fun, after many guides were read, and many fortresses preemptively abandoned, was lost to giant ambush from outta nowhere, and I had about 5 military dwarves. And all of them were wrestlers.

[ImBocaire]

My first fortress death that was caused by external Fun rather than me getting bored/bewildered/etc was when I neglected to set up any sort of outside defense, and a goblin ambush made it all the way into my legendary dining room before being discovered.

[Oliolli]

My first fortress death that was caused by external Fun rather than me getting bored/bewildered/etc was when I neglected to set up any sort of outside defense, and a goblin ambush made it all the way into my legendary dining room before being discovered.

I can imagine it:

'Urist McHungry cancels eat: interrupted by goblin lasher.'
"Hmm, why was he trying to eat outside..? Oh wait sh-"

[jaxy15]

Ever gotten ambushed several times when your military was very weak and had no armor?
Yeah, it was like that.

[Kay12]

That's exactly what happened to me (read my story above), but the presence of cage traps helped me a lot.

[TomiTapio]

My first fortress death that was caused by external Fun rather than me getting bored/bewildered/etc was when I neglected to set up any sort of outside defense, and a goblin ambush made it all the way into my legendary dining room before being discovered.

Hehe, that is just wicked.

I usually have
[CITIZEN_DEATH:A_D:D_D:P:R:UCR_A] --pause, recenter
[PET_DEATH:A_D:D_D:P:R:UCR_A]
in init/annoucements so the first death-by-wildlife spurs the fort into action. Or into hiding.

[Forteano]

Currently on my second attempt to get into DF, still in my (re)training fortress using a newby guide.

My fort was going superbly, everyone happy and well-fed, with around 40 population. But I was dicking around so much with custom stockpiles and engraving my dining room and making the yet-to-be-needed Noble quarters look nice, that I neglected to make a military at all.

I knew a military was a requirement but I thought I'd have more time for some reason.

A goblin ambush waltzed up to the undefended and wide-open fortress entrance. With the game on Pause I made my first military squads of about 8 dwarves in total, completely unarmed, and sent them up to intercept. There was a bloody encounter just before the stairs leading down to the main fortress, and my impromptu military was victorious!

All but one of them was killed or seriously injured, though. There was a minor tantrum spiral that led to me having to lock about 5 other dwarves in their rooms until they died.

I was just getting things back together, when there was another goblin ambush.

Again, I thought I'd have more time to prepare for the next one, so I still didn't have a proper military.

I sent another hastily assembled squad of unarmed wrestlers to meet the invaders. Many goblins got all the way to the underground levels this time.

A massive wave of immigrants had arrived just before this second attack.

Total chaos. It seemed to take ages for all the goblins to be eliminated. I still have no idea exactly how it all went down. At one point I just gave up trying to manage the disaster and watched.

A MAJOR tantrum spiral ensued. There was blood and dead dwarves and goblins everywhere. I locked about 10 dwarves in their rooms. Lots of red-arrowed dwarves milled about without ever going back to their rooms.

I built a load of coffins and had to expand the graveyard. All of these coffins contain a body (and there were still several bodies laying around at the time of the screenshot, as well as some live dwarves still locked in their rooms):



I lost all my legendary miners, including the expedition leader who went berserk in the dining room and splattered my lovingly engraved walls and floor with the blood of two dwarves before being taken down.

Things have settled now. Somehow, the fortress never fell but it was close. And, of course, a lot of Fun.

[Kay12]

Military isn't a requirement, at least until you start having trouble with trap avoiding creatures. The only operations my army has done have been executing captured goblins.