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GreatWyrmGold

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Worst, Most Unexpected Fortress Deaths
« on: October 18, 2011, 07:26:44 pm »
I just lost a fledgling fortress. It started badly: Ten creepers (modded-in Minecraft-inspired monsters), several crocodiles, a sturgeon, a sea lamprey, and four cute ducks. Those weren't the issue, though, the GIANT REPTILES RIPPING MY DWARVES AND DOMESTIC ANIMALS APART and the BIZZARE PLANT-THINGS TURNING THE SURFACE INTO A DWARF BARBEQUE were. I had one survivor, a craftsdwarf, who ran to the pick through a raging fire, then underground, and started digging. You know, I just might--nope, the burn wounds caused the last dwarf to bleed to death, literally just as I was thinking I had hope.
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Re: Worst, Most Unexpected Fortress Deaths
« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2011, 07:30:20 pm »
Creepers? I guess they have cave-in-dust nullified syndrome or something to replicate essplosions?

At least, that's what I've done :)
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Re: Worst, Most Unexpected Fortress Deaths
« Reply #2 on: October 18, 2011, 07:45:40 pm »
Had an unexplained cave in that compromised my main gate.  Fort entrance was dug into the side of a small hill, and I built walls up the hill and around this area.  Then one day I find the part of the wall that was on the hill over the entrance had somehow caved in through the floor, leaving a nice skylight in the hallway.  I never got a cave in warning, it was just like that when I started the game.  Then the goblins came.

I'm still not sure how this one happened.
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Re: Worst, Most Unexpected Fortress Deaths
« Reply #3 on: October 18, 2011, 08:12:51 pm »
It goes without saying, but
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Beyond the obvious, I'd have to say one fortress where I tried to keep the river flowing through winter by running magma underneath it; instead it caused it to slllloowwwly freeze and thaw at season changes, with spots of moving magma thawing certain tiles of the river. I didn't even notice this effect until it thawed in such a way as to drop an unsupported floor of ice through the riverbed, magma flow, dining hall, booze stockpile(‼) and dwarven reactor chamber. I sat there puzzling how my power room was randomly filling with magma for a couple minutes before I actually thought to get someone fixing the breach.
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Re: Worst, Most Unexpected Fortress Deaths
« Reply #4 on: October 18, 2011, 08:17:20 pm »
I thought my dwarves who just killed a ninja rabbit ice-spitting FB could go on against a legendary-something minotaur...
and a goblin siege came...
my biggest fort was soon reduced to what was goblin bits and 20 scared dwarves because a cat JAMMED THE DOOR OPEN with vermin remains...
but the minotaur took on against the siege :D
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Re: Worst, Most Unexpected Fortress Deaths
« Reply #5 on: October 18, 2011, 08:45:04 pm »
Quote from: acetech09 on October 18, 2011, 07:30:20 pm
Creepers? I guess they have cave-in-dust nullified syndrome or something to replicate essplosions?

At least, that's what I've done :)
Were you the one who posted the creeper mod? If so, yes. I saw a creeper mod, went, "Ooh! Another way to kill my forts too early!" and downloaded, but I forgot to note whose it was.
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Re: Worst, Most Unexpected Fortress Deaths
« Reply #6 on: October 18, 2011, 10:44:21 pm »
The fort I bring up the most. I had a very elaborate system of pumps and aquifiers driven by a total misunderstanding of fluid dynamics in Dwarf Fortress.

Dwarves fired out the front door.
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Re: Worst, Most Unexpected Fortress Deaths
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2011, 01:56:55 am »
Thought I was pitting disarmed gobbo prisoners into my arena to train my brand new military.  Accidentally added my caged minotaur to the list.  Didn't end well.
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Re: Worst, Most Unexpected Fortress Deaths
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2011, 03:25:19 am »
I'd have to say it's a toss up between the rot to death FB syndrome which wiped out 3/4 of the fort and triggered a tuntrum spiral till fort death or when i First started using pumps and water wheels. Linking a pump to a water wheel with no way to shut it off leads to mass drowning and fps death. I flooded the whole fort
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