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[ougadas]

Playing a .19 generated pocket region and have 1, yes 1, dwarf halfway outfitted in steel due to no bituminous or lignite, and sparse tree life.

She is my only warrior.

She slaughters crundles and troglodytes like they were blades of grass, 30 kills.

But her skill with the spear and armor remained only proficient, she became a talented fighter, but was still dabbling with the shield, and had no skill at dodging.

And then, behold, the Forgotten Beast comes, it is a dimetrodon with thick scales and its bite is poisonous!

It crashes through the forbidden door from the caverns, and I think.. aha.. my cage traps will capture it!

No such luck.

But then there is my lone warrior dwarf, sacrificing herself to buy the other dwarves time to run from the oncoming fun.

Except she doesn't. She bites the dimetrodon on the toe, and it drags her 9 tiles while she stabs it in the head with her spear.

My poorly trained half steel clad lone warrior single handedly took down a forgotten beast.

When a reacher intruded a couple minutes later, I didn't think twice about sending her after him.

She chases him down but just before she gets to him he escapes at the edge, and the game crashes.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Such is life in Alpha.

[G-Flex]

Seasonal autosave with backups is your friend.

[thvaz]

Seasonal autosave with backups is your friend.

He would have lost what happened nonetheless.

[Uristocrat]

She chases him down but just before she gets to him he escapes at the edge, and the game crashes.

Cancel any kill orders before the enemy marked for death gets off the map to avoid that bug.

[ougadas]

Yeah, have a seasonal backup about a month before the FB. Hoping she can do the job again. =)

[Rafal99]

Just save manually after important events. After killing forgotten beast for example.
I do it in all games practically. Even commercial, "finished" games can crash sometimes.

[plisskin]

DF is shockingly stable for an alpha, all things considered. I've suffered crashes that made me abandon forts out of sheer discouragement though. Even with seasonal saves sometimes you just don't wanna go through with all the micromanagement you know a particularly bad season is going to offer you.

[NW_Kohaku]

DF is shockingly stable for an alpha, all things considered. I've suffered crashes that made me abandon forts out of sheer discouragement though. Even with seasonal saves sometimes you just don't wanna go through with all the micromanagement you know a particularly bad season is going to offer you.

Once again, the term "alpha" is meaningless to compare to other alphas since this is a game that has been actively playtested for several years.  Commercial game alphas are the "we only managed to get the bulk of the features to compile, so we have something that actually looks kind of like a game if you squint" and last for a few months. DF has been developing and bug-hunting for years.  It's comparing apples and orangutans, they're nothing at all alike.

[Ultimuh]

S0 she bit it in it's toe.. then proceeded to stab at it with her spear.. while it tried to escape, with her being dragged along with it?

I can easily picture it in my head. Someone should draw the scenario. 

[anon_outlaw]

on the topic of under-skilled dorfs doing ridiculous things.

i had a lvl 3 hunter who was lvl 7 with a crossbow hunting in a jungle... it ran into some elephants and true to dwarven survival instincts it proceeded to diligently shoot wooden bolts at them! i came into this half way though though... he had one of them unconscious and another dazed. the other elephants luckily didn't join in on the fun and this gusty armature hunter proceeded to lazily pluck off shots into the 2 wounded beasts.

alas! he runs out of ammo. so what dose he do? run back to the stockpile and fetch some more rounds before his kills can escape? nup, Urist McHunter is tired after severely wounding 2 elephant bulls so he just plops down where he is and has a nap. luckily after being made a dwarfs bitch the 2 elephants had had enough and ran on their crippled legs as fast as they could as soon as they woke.

not even a season later the hunter is re-stocked on poorly made wooden bolts and ready for the hunt again, i watch closely this time as he immediately makes his way for a densely packed heard of elephants and a giant tiger! luckily the tiger wonders off... though after the last hunting trip i kinda wondered if he could have taken it on... anyway, not wanting to get all tuckered out like last time my huntsman decides to only take on one of the elephants this time. strangely passive to their friend getting murdered they wonder off and now my not-even-a-year-old fortress has enough meat for the coming 3 years.

the hunter is only just a lvl 8 marksman and his crossbow and bolts are all bottom quality.