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Author Topic: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2095672 times)

MaximumZero

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3375 on: December 18, 2010, 01:30:39 am »

How about building them in a plateau near a volcano, with a 1-tile wide "bridge" spanning the volcano? Then, connect all the cages, as well as a drawbridge, to a lever, and put weapon traps on all the tiles on the bridge? It'd be like the Goblin Olympics: Volcano Diving.

Bonus points: Put a large dining hall not too far from the platform/bridge, with an overlooking window view.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3376 on: December 18, 2010, 01:31:39 am »

Yeah, but the ground won't take kindly to having a goblin thrown at it...

Also: I have no magma on this map as of yet, so any magma traps are out of the question.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3377 on: December 18, 2010, 01:34:04 am »

Creating a hallway full of steel spikes to stop a siege.

And forgetting to link them up to a repeater. D:
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3378 on: December 18, 2010, 01:39:26 am »

Yeah, but the ground won't take kindly to having a goblin thrown at it...

Also: I have no magma on this map as of yet, so any magma traps are out of the question.

You could always use water. Or spikes. Dwarves like spikes.

Creating a hallway full of steel spikes to stop a siege.

And forgetting to link them up to a repeater. D:

I'm still not sure how to do that.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3379 on: December 18, 2010, 01:43:48 am »

Yeah, but the ground won't take kindly to having a goblin thrown at it...

Also: I have no magma on this map as of yet, so any magma traps are out of the question.

You could always use water. Or spikes. Dwarves like spikes.

Creating a hallway full of steel spikes to stop a siege.

And forgetting to link them up to a repeater. D:

I'm still not sure how to do that.

I just use the lazy dorf's approach of having a lever in some place with high traffic like your dining hall or statue garden and then just link them all to it, and set "pull lever to" repeat
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3380 on: December 18, 2010, 01:51:58 am »

I once made a fortress with an unstopable military.

And I forgot to create a farm. My dorfs dehydrated and starved.


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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3381 on: December 18, 2010, 07:29:50 am »

My dwarves embarked on Ice. I didn't notice this because of the snow level keeping me from seeing where they embarked, I had wondered why I couldn't find the river on the map, but ignored it. Then the snow melts, and I see lush green and notice my wagon appears to be Right on top of Ice. Instant thought: Get everyone moving stuff off of the wagon. Afterward it hit me I could of just turned off temperature temporarily. That would be about 2 seconds after the Ice unfroze. Almost everything, except the anvil, and a few barrels of food got dropped right into the water, as well as a dwarf that was getting something from the wagon.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3382 on: December 18, 2010, 08:32:05 am »



What the...

Does this show something about my mayor's reputation in my fortress?

btw, this image wasn't stitched together, he was killed instantly after becoming mayor.
« Last Edit: December 18, 2010, 08:34:17 am by Samohan25 »
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3383 on: December 18, 2010, 09:21:45 am »



What the...

Does this show something about my mayor's reputation in my fortress?

btw, this image wasn't stitched together, he was killed instantly after becoming mayor.

Shortest. Term. Ever.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3384 on: December 18, 2010, 09:39:13 am »

Years later, rumors persisted that Mayor Zasitakum was killed by Goblin Castro, the Dwarf Mafia or even the militia-industrial complex.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3385 on: December 18, 2010, 02:26:04 pm »



What the...

Does this show something about my mayor's reputation in my fortress?

btw, this image wasn't stitched together, he was killed instantly after becoming mayor.

Shortest. Term. Ever.

Eat it, William Harrison!
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3386 on: December 18, 2010, 04:51:48 pm »

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3387 on: December 18, 2010, 07:21:29 pm »

Theory: As doors are technically buildings, dwarves can't interact with them while fleeing. That's why when a dwarf is being chased by a giant, bloated lizard with a shell and a poisonous bite and ends up at the door in the fortress which is set so that he can enter but the horrifying, squad-killing abomination cannot, he will turn in the other direction, inevitably getting killed after being within two tiles of complete safety.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #3388 on: December 18, 2010, 07:48:29 pm »

Just discovered two things: The danger of Alligators on a desert embark, and the speed-up glitch that occurs on embark.

Benny Hill music was played, at least in my head.
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« Reply #3389 on: December 18, 2010, 08:28:59 pm »

I just dug into a volcano, forgetting about the pressure of the magma, and my miner was swept up and slammed against the end of the tunnel, exploding into a fine red mist. Body parts! Body parts everywhere!!

EDIT: Oh I also flooded my fortress with water.  :'(
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