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Author Topic: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2126601 times)

Steelgeek

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1350 on: April 02, 2010, 11:49:45 am »

Using DigDwarfier.
Day one - Feral gnomes scatter my dwarves and drink ALL the booze.
On day one.
No booze.

Yeahhhhh, pretty much went the way you expected.
Broke my own record for fastest Fun, induced by environment, sans everyone dying.
What you don't have your Fun categorized and recorded?
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SmileyMan

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« Reply #1351 on: April 02, 2010, 01:16:00 pm »

Went to arena mode, carefully created a human swordsman, with armour, skills, etc.  Took a couple of minutes over it.  Then went back and realised that the cursor was over the magma......
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In a fat-fingered moment while setting up another military squad I accidentally created a captain of the guard rather than a militia captain.  His squad of near-legendary hammerdwarves equipped with high quality silver hammers then took it upon themselves to dispense justice to all the mandate breakers in the fortress.  It was quite messy.

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1352 on: April 02, 2010, 01:25:59 pm »

Went to arena mode, carefully created a human swordsman, with armour, skills, etc.  Took a couple of minutes over it.  Then went back and realised that the cursor was over the magma......
When you go to make another one, your choices should still be there.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1353 on: April 02, 2010, 04:26:36 pm »

built a massive, roofless, multi Z level (was on a steep mountainside), out of fortress wall, only to discover there was a hungry giant eagle, which then came down and ate my dwarves.

harvested about 1200 fish not realizing they couldn't be prepared in the kitchen and abandoning the fort after much confusion as to why my dwarves were starving.
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its so very cold up here in canada... or maybe thats just because i'm naked.

AzureShadow

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1354 on: April 02, 2010, 05:54:36 pm »

Constructed an absolutely massive mining operation to find metal, and after completely digging through 3 full z-levels of mountain, found out that even with all the metal and bituminous coal in the world, I couldn't do anything without one piece of fuel to start off with.
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These are the kinds of bugs that make DF the game it is.  Magma vanishing?  Oops, it's all being sucked down by hell.
This is how everything works. This, right here, is DF.

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1355 on: April 02, 2010, 05:56:15 pm »

If you had wood and a wood furnace, you could make charcoal.  Then you just go from there.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1356 on: April 02, 2010, 09:23:09 pm »

My first fort with the new version. I had a three lightly armoured swordsdwarves exploring a cavern, when they ran into seven batfolk. Noting the wooden weapons that the bats were armed with, i decided to attack.

I forgot that blowdarts can be poisoned now.

The result? Two dwarves dead, no batmen dead.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1357 on: April 02, 2010, 10:22:18 pm »

I had one worthy to post here, though I already mentioned in http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=47809.150:

I had only one miner, and I had two copper bars from embark. I wanted to speed up mining a bit, so I ordered construction of two axes.
Made two idle dwarves miners, and wondered why nothing happened. Realized my mistake only when I posted the question in the forum above, and was told that miners use picks, not axes.

I felt like I should have couple big facepalm at that moment....
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1358 on: April 03, 2010, 10:50:07 am »


"What do ya mean, damp stone dete- blu blu"
That place woulda' provided me plenty of wood. Now it's spewing water into the neighbouring cave.
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PeterTheEvilBastard

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« Reply #1359 on: April 03, 2010, 05:51:17 pm »

First fort. Dug into a cavern. GCS raep. Nuff said.
 Next time, I treat the underground as "deadly and forbidden untill proven otherwise. Or flooded with magma."
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« Reply #1360 on: April 03, 2010, 10:45:26 pm »

Flooded with magma won't make it safe.  It will just reduce the populations that are actually safe to deal with.
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Only vaguely. Made of the same substance and put to the same use, but a bit like comparing a castle and a doublewide trailer.

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1361 on: April 04, 2010, 05:19:51 am »

Digging out your irrigation system, have it all nice and ready to go.
Then you dig out the last square and watch the water move in, only then realizing that you forgot to put a lever on the door to stop the flow.
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« Reply #1362 on: April 04, 2010, 07:34:31 am »

Flooded with magma won't make it safe.  It will just reduce the populations that are actually safe to deal with.
By the GODS I love this game!
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« Reply #1363 on: April 04, 2010, 03:44:57 pm »

First fort. Dug into a cavern. GCS raep. Nuff said.
 Next time, I treat the underground as "deadly and forbidden untill proven otherwise. Or flooded with magma."

First fort. Dug into cavern. Floor is covered in GCS webs.
I have never re-walled that fast in my entire DF career.

...do GCS have the 'building destroyer' tag?  :o
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« Reply #1364 on: April 04, 2010, 04:34:59 pm »

Early fortress, didn't realize that DF water generally behaves like real water. I dug a Fort on the bottom level of a canyon, dug a well and hooked the well to a river that ran about six Z-levels up, and made a lake out of my canyon.
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