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[sarus92]

Being a newer player of Dwarf Fortress I have yet to really skim all of what Dwarf Fortress has to offer being as the learning curve is so steep. With that being said I LOVE to read about how other peoples Forts fell to ruin to cheer up my newbie Fort deaths.

Ill go first..

I had a Goblin baby snatcher come in and steal a baby. So I assigned a few people to the military and had them stand guard outside and being that I am a newb I forgot about the fact that I had to tell them to go eat so half went Stark-raving mad as did the Mother of the missing child which led to a glorious and wonderful tantrum-spiral..

So how did your Fort die?


EDIT: By the way I just have to say this is probably the coolest community of players I have ever seen. Unlike other game communities. Just visit the Minecraft forums and you'll see what I mean.

EDIT2: Modified title for maximum awesomeness after the "which one" comment below.

[JDF117]

  I don't have anything interestinng, but you might like some of these:

http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Boatmurdered/

http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Headshoots/

http://lparchive.org/Dwarf-Fortress-Syrupleaf/

  I have read them all and can personally attest to their awesomeness.

You'll probably also want to drop by the community games and forums thread:

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?board=14.0

[King DZA]

Massive defensive flaw.

I'm sure the goblins appreciated the easy entrance, though...

[Sanguine]

Which one? :p My last one went under when I locked a merchant into the depot with 6 legendary axedwarves and somehow the merchant killed an axedwarf before going down and then the axedwarves went berserk and killed everything...

[Nyxalinth]

I have two, both from the days of d40.  Well, more than two but these two are particular favorites.

The baroness liked bins.  Really, really liked bins.  She mandated that no bins should be exported.  Me being an idiot accidentally traded one.  Me also being an idiot, I had law enforcement turned out.  20 dwarves out of 100 ended up being punished for this heinous crime.  Three died.  Let's just say, it didn't end well.  Oh screw it: it caused an epic tantrum spiral, during the course of which a kid killed another dwarf and made a shoe out of him.

Another fort, another time.

I was running Dig Dwarfier, which adds sieges from orcs and dark elves.  I had a strong military, and several named champions.  Orc invaded, and I mopped the floor with them.  All was well, except...

One of my legendaries lost his girlfriend and two best friends in the battle.  He went berserk, and tracked down and killed every other dwarf in the fort and killed them, including his buddies, some of whom were also legendary.  While this was going on, dark elves made the mistake of ambushing.  He wiped them off the map.

finally, it came down to him, a badly injured carpenter and a badly injured mason, both laid up in bed.   At that point, I abandoned the fort.  Thus does end the sad tale of Sacksizzled.  I can't recall the previous fort's name.

[King DZA]

Ooh, my most epic fort, you say?

Minor defensive flaw.

The trolls really seemed to enjoy my dining hall, though...

[Nyxalinth]

Accidental double-post.

[ThatAussieGuy]

The dwarven civ died out on my map, so my fort was the last mountainhome.  I recruited everyone, marched them up to a pre-built room over a breaching point into the HFS, and opened it. 

[Gizogin]

Nyxalinth, you posted the same thing twice.

[Vehudur]

It was epic enough I made a thread for it.  It wasn't real long ago, you should still be able to find it pretty easy.

[Specter513]

Forgetting to attach lever to bridge
It was messy
At one point I thought I had held them, then some copper armed gobbo somehow kills my adamantine armored commander. From that point on, everything was shit. The last dwarf surviving died because he was in a hospital bed even though he wasn't wounded, but just sleeping there, until he died of dehydration and starvation. Oh, and he also threw 2 tantrums while asleep. Don't ask me how.

[ClkWrkJester]

First off, we're a tight community I think for the same reason people band together under extreme pressure. Either that or because of shared insanity.

Lets see.. I've lost 5 forts before I figured out pressure. The best was when I was building -up- in a mountain so most of my dorf corpses got shoved out the front door.

Most spectacular though was when a siege arrived, and I panicked and posted all my men out front on the ice of the river. We would face them Alexander Nevsky style.

Then summer came and my entire fort drowned. I wanted to be angry but was laughing too hard.

[Nyxalinth]

Nyxalinth, you posted the same thing twice.

Yeah I just spotted that.  It was having trouble posting earlier, so I'll take fof the double post.

[ISGC]

I had the smart idea of making my militia captain my sheriff, so when the mayor took a nose dive into my lava moat, the sheriff killed 90% of the population and so I put the final 5 or so emotionless husks into a squad and sent them on a kill order of every living thing possible in the units list
unfortunately, the kill order was still broken at that time, so I had to move order them all around until they were eventually killed off.
if I sugar coated it a bit, it would be a lot cooler

[Pukako]

My very first 'successful' (i.e. survived to get migrants) fort died due to a combination of accidently channelling a major river through the dining room and releasing a caged bronze colossus into the bedroom level.

Watching 80 dwarves choose between being slaughtered and drowning was vaguely entertaining, and very informative...