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goblin abmushes, sieges etc.

human abmushes, sieges etc.

elf abmushes, sieges etc.

titans, forgotten beasts, megabeasts

demons

magma

necromancers

undead

tantrum spiral

loyalty cascade

giant mosquito invasion

[Mimodo]

58: do not assign your only legendary military dwarf 20+ war dogs, then let them out into a siege... The resulting tantrum is difficult to put down

[Henrik Undrgrim]

59: Never put the off switch beside the pump providing water for the fortress because when the flood comes you cant stop it.

[Triaxx2]

60: All levers should be at least 4 z levels above the highest water source in existence, or the top of the pump stack. With depressurizers and doors to seal away water.

[terko]

61. Amphibious Mounts used in sieges can and will swim with their rider into your fortress if you did not floor over whatever water entry flows through your walled in part of the fortress.

[towerdude]

62. Remember that even if a group of Giant Albatross Corpses emigrates from your map after stalking you for 2 seasons, that doesn't mean the next immigrant group couldn't be another bunch of Giant Albatross Corpses.

[Megaman3321]

63. Don't put your bridge and danger room levers next to each other.
64. Don't let your dwarves share friends. The tantrum spiral is horrendous.

[flieroflight]

65. Ensure tat levers may be easily reconisable as to their function. Be it by notes, locatio or colour co-ordination.Lever rooms, all identical and unmarked, are bad ideas.

[Hanslanda]

65. Ensure tat levers may be easily reconisable as to their function. Be it by notes, locatio or colour co-ordination.Lever rooms, all identical and unmarked, are bad ideas utterly genius.

Fixed that for you.

[Flying Fortress]

66.  Never assume a door is locked when a siege/FB/titan/!!Fun!! arrives.
67a.  When starting an outside fort make sure you have an underground stockpile in case Urist gets a strange mood so the artifact isn't immediately stolen by a kea causing a tantrum from Uristmcjustbecamelegendary.     (just happened to me)
67b.  Also make sure this underground stockpile has a door so the kea doesn't get inside and steal your stuff anyway.

[Thrudq]

68. If you divert surface water from z-level 5 underground to z-level 7 and then back outside to z-level 9, that water can still back up and flood the main dining hall.

69.  Make sure your drawbridge opens toward the outside of the fort, not toward the room inside where your militia trains.

70.  If you order every last single dwarf in the fort to carry trade goods to the depot, nobody will be available to close the drawbridge when the goblins that were following the merchants attack.

[Shininglight]

71: Remember to put a roof on the fortress airlock i na biome with scary fog/cloud/mist/vapor etc.

72: Remember to put a roof over the entire fortress including archery fortifications for when the goblins get cave swallows.

73: Bring booze on embark.......

[TheDarkStar]

74. Don't attempt to kill ANYTHING with unarmored wrestlers, especially if you don't have a hospital. They will die and cause a tantrum spiral.
75. Wrestlers will always attack and die before your equipped dwarves can kill the creature.
76. Remember to get cage traps and a military by the first year in case of siege.

[GenJeFT]

77. Fill pond seems to take precedence over EVERY SINGLE OTHER JOB.

[Supernerd]

78. Forgotten beasts will instantly know if any path into your fortress opens up no matter where they are on the map.
79. The amount of time it will take for a dwarf to pull a level can be anywhere between ten seconds and ten minutes.

[Hanslanda]

80. If you find candy, go play Minesweep for about ten hours before you start mining the candy. That should be enough experience to prevent you from finding the hole.