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Author Topic: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2200264 times)

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #2130 on: July 26, 2010, 01:35:30 pm »

I needed engravers, metalsmiths and various other things. I got a 22 dorf migrant wave, almost everyone was a clothier or milker.

If you are in 0.31 versions, check their skills.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #2131 on: July 26, 2010, 02:16:15 pm »

I needed engravers, metalsmiths and various other things. I got a 22 dorf migrant wave, almost everyone was a clothier or milker.

If you are in 0.31 versions, check their skills.
I use DTherapist, I know what they were. Does the game give a higher chance of getting useless migrants?
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #2132 on: July 26, 2010, 03:17:29 pm »

Migrants on the whole are much more useful than they were in 40d, provided you're willing to process them with dwarf therapist and sort out which ones have useful skills. The rest can be haulers or begin military training. That said, it's pretty much random what skills they might have, so you're bound to get unlucky sometime. If you need the professions enough you can always start with an unskilled dwarf.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #2133 on: July 26, 2010, 04:32:39 pm »

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #2134 on: July 26, 2010, 04:34:00 pm »

Just give the useless dwarves the jobs that you need. Sure they're going to be slow at first, but after a year or so, they'll be awesome at it.
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« Reply #2135 on: July 26, 2010, 08:55:26 pm »

Decided to up the difficulty a bit... embarked in a haunted jungle/swamp. I gave everyone ambush and set up a squad. I took one pick and the materials to make weapons. Designated a burrow... assigned someone to mine out the ramps and cut a moat so nothing could get at the caravan...

Four dwarfs later after several skeletal croc attacks I realized if everyone is set to ambush; no one will pick up a pick... ouch.

<edit>Oh I forgot to mention I forgot to take stone for the smelter/forges... I was feeling desperate for that miner to do their work </cry></edit>
« Last Edit: July 26, 2010, 09:07:15 pm by flatlander »
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« Reply #2136 on: July 27, 2010, 01:02:36 pm »

Embarked in a new world, built up a fortress complete with resivoir, farm, several other features and then started wondering why there were no caravans, immigrants or other races. Turns out that all the dwarves were dead; No important leaders and no chance of any more than 18 dwarves.

/facepalm
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #2137 on: July 27, 2010, 02:55:47 pm »

Embarked in a new world, built up a fortress complete with resivoir, farm, several other features and then started wondering why there were no caravans, immigrants or other races. Turns out that all the dwarves were dead; No important leaders and no chance of any more than 18 dwarves.

/facepalm

It's up to you now, you must repopulate the dwarven race! Build a bed, get some beer, and go to work!
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« Reply #2138 on: July 27, 2010, 05:07:42 pm »

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

/facepalm  :'(
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #2139 on: July 27, 2010, 05:22:59 pm »

Was that guy killed by the marmot?
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Why does my adventurer keep crying?
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« Reply #2140 on: July 27, 2010, 05:38:04 pm »

No he was struck down by fire imps and this was like the third season v.v And right now there all throwing tantrums except one of my miners :/ and now they need buckets. . . /facepalm
« Last Edit: July 27, 2010, 05:48:20 pm by FacePalm »
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« Reply #2141 on: July 28, 2010, 11:15:09 am »

Constructed a cistern and buckets, started the bucket brigade to fill it up. While they were filling it, I got a well set up, so the nurses could get water from the cistern without wandering all the way outside while the patients died of thirst. As soon as the well was finished, all the bucket brigade dwarfs began filling their buckets from the well. I had 20 dwarves in a small room, taking water from a well and pouring it into a hole to fill the well.
I didn't realize it until a season later when I realized that the cistern wasn't getting any fuller.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #2142 on: July 28, 2010, 02:27:53 pm »

I just realized you could put finished goods in bins.

Now my stockpile of rock crafts for the caravans doesn't have to take up half my fortress.
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« Reply #2143 on: July 28, 2010, 06:06:33 pm »

I'm sure I'm not the first to do this:  To increase meat and bone supplies, as well as increase FPS, I set most of the animals to be slaughtered.  Sometime later I wondered why I hadn't been seeing any messages about animals being struck down.  Upon checking the list, I discovered that I had set them all to be adopted, which they had been.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #2144 on: July 28, 2010, 11:15:38 pm »

2D version:  hey look a big swarm of elves coming to my fort!  no, no, no, wait apparently the big E's can be too things, bye bye fort.
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