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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

[Flying Fortress]

123.  A necromancer siege and sharp weapon traps don't mix.
124.  Necromancer ghosts you haven't dealt with yet and open refuse piles don't mix well.
125.  That one skeletal skeleton partial skeletal goose in the middle of your main hallway is as bad as carp when it revives when all your dwarves are running through the tunnel to haul something.
126.  When all 3 of these things mix you mine as well just sit back and enjoy the show as your fortress 'Emits showers of !!FUN!!.' 

[misko27]

127. Vampires will go crazy like other dwarves. Crazy vampires may not allow your fort to continue past apocalypse, depending on type.

[WanderingKid]

128. Not setting your 'encrusting' jeweler's workshop to only take from your crafting goods stockpiles ends up with a pile of this due to haulblocks:

This is a sheep wool sock.  It is made from sheel wool cloth.  This object menaces with spikes of pink garnet.  On the item is a image of breasplates in chrysoberyl by Tosid Uzolmegid.

I just KNOW some idiot's going to go out and die for this sock in a siege...

[Bulwersator]

" most common cause of losing a fortress? " FPS death, crash and bug-related problems are missing.

[MrAnderson]

129. When a burrow is split in two parts (eg by a bridge) it's no reason for dwarves not to try reach the cut off part - even when there's a goblin siege in between.

(experienced when I sealed off a trade depot from the fort by a bridge but not from the outside. the whole fort wanted to get stuff from the depot while a siege waited outside of the bridge o'doom over the volcano)

[Dorfus]

130. As tempting as it seems, clearing a cavern with a balls-to-the-wall free-for-all slugging match between your fresh-faced military and the hordes of forgotten beasts is not the best approach. Dwarves aren't meant to go toe-to-toe with enemies. Use spikes, magma and other cleverly engineered traps and save your military for chasing the escaped Giant Sparrow around the mines. For hours. And hours.

[Meph]

131. Modding is addictive.

[Loud Whispers]

Rule of ravens :

All those with wings, they descend from the skies... They are murder. This is why you must dig deeper.

[DrKillPatient]

133. When a dwarf is thrown from a minecart, off a retracting bridge, etc, his or her gravitational attraction to a particular area is directly proportional to the likelyhood of death when landing in that area.

All those with wings, they descend from the skies... They are murder.

Technically, only crows are murder; see #3 here: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/murder

[Loud Whispers]

Technically, only crows are murder.

While ravens are unkind, keas are a circus and those larger still... All share one thing in common. They have the want to kill everything short and hairy. They are murder.

[KingFerret]

134. Danger rooms can only be made using a spike trap containing training spears NOT menacing wooden spikes which will proceed to perforate your whole military, without you noticing.

[T-Mick]

135. Locked doors don't keep trolls out of you fortress.

136. Locked doors DO keep starving dwarves out of your fortress when you forget to unlock them.

[GoombaGeek]

137. When everyone walks past the hospital on their way to pick up some sweet, sweet socks (my first-ever goblin christmas), they will completely neglect the wounded until all your hospital contains is dried-out corpses awkwardly hung over some fungiwood beds. However, they will not fail to notice the miasma produced by the corpses. Paging Dr. Urist McSelectivelyblind!

[nighzmarquls]

138. Upright Grates are not effective barriers in seiges and instead attract trolls.

[k9wazere]

139. A single Legendary vile fog thrall swordsman can destroy your entire fortress quicker than just about anything.