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[Brewster]

When every time I say 'ah crap' out-loud while playing, I have to explain to my wife why a fire breathing platypus forgotten beast just torched my tailor, and 2 of my archers in an underground cavern.
(seriously, imagine those words coming out of your mouth at like the office or something... insane)

[urmane]

Beautiful huge burial crypt made, smoothed, engraved, coffins placed ... but I forgot to enable burial, and now that insane berzerk Shearer is rotting on the main staircase, filling the entire core with miasma ...

[chaosgear]

My game froze after three years of major work.
I just abandoned. I'm not gonna bother with this crap.

Still, it was shaping up to be one of my most successful fortresses...

[Drazinononda]

My game froze after three years of major work.
I just abandoned. I'm not gonna bother with this crap.

Still, it was shaping up to be one of my most successful fortresses...

Seasonal autosave is your friend.

[darkgloomie]

A dwarf has drowned in the river because I didn't know that bridges can't support floors adiacent to them.

That's not the facepalm moment though. The dorf was a peasant with no useful skill, prolly born on the fort (aye, that's a bad thought!) so he can stay dead for all i care.

The facepalm moment is that said Avuz Udaroslan had just enough turns to get out of the river... and die.

What. The. Fuck.

[hops]

Quicksaved in DFhack and copied my fort so I can take a look at the Legends.
Turns out I ended up abandoning both fort.

[P(ony)SI]

So, first of all, a goblin ambush comes in and ends up wounding one of my soldiers. No problem, I have a hospital.
Then, a forgotten beast decides to say "Hi" to that wounded soldier, and ends up killing him. In some kind of miracle, the doctor didn't die.
Next, a few more ambushes and some babysnatchers come. Not a problem, until I find out that dwarves are drinking out of the river, right next to the ambushes.
I look at the stocks screen, and I only have 29 units of drink left.
My military goes and kills some melee ambushes, then get slaughtered by goblin crossbows. All of them.

I ragequit the fort.

[Hanslanda]

I ragequit the fort.

Wait. What? Enhance.

I ragequit the fort.

ENHANCE.

I ragequit the fort.

... But there was still living dwarves. Living, sane dwarves. You are failing if everything isn't fire, blood, insanity, vomit, and miasma.

[Gentlefish]

I ragequit the fort.

Wait. What? Enhance.

I ragequit the fort.

ENHANCE.

I ragequit the fort.

... But there was still living dwarves. Living, sane dwarves. You are failing if everything isn't fire, blood, insanity, vomit, and miasma.

I'm sorry. But this is just beautiful.

[hops]

On the matter of not giving up, the first instance of the succession fort Inkedcarnage failed horribly when someone died (forgot name) and MrWillsauce probably berserked to harvest everybody's intestines. NotaPirate, the last dwarf left in the fort, brained her (MrWillsauce was a female dwarf).

The official fort abandoned and reclaimed, but I downloaded the save and continued brewing, farming, and things. Progress is minimal since she (nearly everyone in the fort are female) always had her hands full with farming and building coffins. Later three farmers migrated to the smoking ruins and now we're working to bury everyone.

tl;dr I saved the fort with a single dwarf.

[FuzzyZergling]

A Forgotten Beast decided to crawl down through my irrigation system and deconstruct the floodgates in my adamantine harvesting rooms.
It then proceeded to swim up and chase my dwarves around until my military killed it, taking down a mason with its deadly blood (though for some reason it says he was killed by a cave blob).

And to top it all off, for reasons I don't completely understand, one of my magma forges has magma periodically spewing up through the holes so that my metalworkers can't complete it.

[Rockphed]

A Forgotten Beast decided to crawl down through my irrigation system and deconstruct the floodgates in my adamantine harvesting rooms.
It then proceeded to swim up and chase my dwarves around until my military killed it, taking down a mason with its deadly blood (though for some reason it says he was killed by a cave blob).

And to top it all off, for reasons I don't completely understand, one of my magma forges has magma periodically spewing up through the holes so that my metalworkers can't complete it.

Is your forge below the natural level of the magma and above a magma source or being fed by pumps?

[Sutremaine]

If it's periodic spewing then the tile is probably above Magma Flow and below its natural level. Is there a pipe on your map?

[Spacebat]

When the most recent dwarven caravan entered my fort's trade plaza and unpacked, all my dwarves - every single one with a hauling labor enabled - dropped everything and stormed the trade depot, ransacking the horrifed caravaneers' stocks and carting off every strand of thread and bolt of cloth they owned. They charged out in a multicolored mass of greed, and flowed back towards the newly established office of the Dwarf Surgeon General.

I now have more fabric than I know what to do with, or wouldn't know, if any of it were left outside of the hospital for general consumption. It was the most impressive display of dwarven coordination I have ever seen.

...if only they could get themselves together enough to fight the goblins, this fort might have a shot.

Yeah, that's why you never put a container in your hospital. Dwarves will overstock it with every goddamn scrap of material a hospital might want.

[FuzzyZergling]

If it's periodic spewing then the tile is probably above Magma Flow and below its natural level. Is there a pipe on your map?

Yes, there's a magma pipe into the third cavern. Also a volcano. I suppose this is happening because of the way magma respawns?