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[Pukako]

Once I embarked to a HUGE pillar of shiny blue stuff.

I mined it until it was very skinny, then set up a support to collapse it.  Made sure the miners were not mining it and over the other side of the mountain.  The jeweller pulled the lever, the collapse happened, and I couldn't find the miners later.

I worked out that in the few moments between the lever pulling command, and the collapse, they both ran across the map and STOOD UNDER THE PILLAR to be crushed.

[Spacespinner]

Any death that generally occurs in my forts.

[Sutremaine]

about 40 days later all but 4 of them die of thirst while the rest of the fortress was on stone smoothing duty.

Stockpiles in the jails. Use them. To get them functioning correctly they need to take from whichever stockpile is closest to the still (and kitchen, since you might as well get some food in there while you're at it).

[JackoftheBox]

Stupidest death, propably death in jail to thrist by designating a food stockpile of one tile and one prankster dwarf ofc had to put an empty barrel to it.

[Loud Whispers]

It prolly had a troll face note inside it.

[Zarhon]

Embarked on a site without looking at the temperature of the zone, causing me to start with a frozen river. One month later, map decides "screw this cold" and suddenly unfreezes half of the frozen river. Namely, the part my hunter was standing on at that moment. Now I have to wait till it freezes (if it decides to re-freeze at all) to recover his equipment.

[ZeroSumHappiness]

The re-freeze will destroy the equipment and corpse.  I always mark all water as "restricted" (and have upweighted "restricted") if freezing occurs on my embark.

[Zaerosz]

No, the refreeze won't destroy anything. It's the thawing that does that. You can mine everything out no problem, though.

[roughedge]

Most death, namely Urist McDruid who was so psyched about war he took his entire life crafting bone and leather armor from awesome beast only to die at the end of the first band of goblins that comes by, the thing is that he had no weapon..... still was a hell of a biter

[Eric Blank]

Probably the miner who was digging a chute into the cavern lake to deposit water from my waterfall. I designated a staircase to be dug adjacent, but she decided it would be best to do all the channeling before digging the staircase. There was another dorf digging from the bottom up, who did his stairs and channeling in the correct order. The dwarfette, though, did the last channeling designation of the chute and promptly plummeted 13 z-levels to her death. I can only imagine the other dorf was laughing his head off.

[Reudh]

It prolly had a troll face note inside it.

Problem, prisoner?

[nightwhips]

No, the refreeze won't destroy anything. It's the thawing that does that. You can mine everything out no problem, though.

I did not know this! *facepalm*

[Keldor]

I had my legendary miner carefully channeling the last tile holding back the magma from the magma forges.  She dug down the ramp and promptly decided to walk across the bottom of the channel as it filled up.  She made it out and halfway down the hall before dieing of bloodloss from her melted feet.  e.e

[restricted]

Lava flood happened. Magmaproof doors stopped it but it still flooded my main hallway. Unfortunately, no door is magmaproof when there are dwarves on any side of it. I lost 12 dwarves to opening the doors into the lava flood before I could seal them all off.

[Edosurist]

One statement:
An angry mason throws a barrel at a carpenter.
How does that kill a dwarf?