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Author Topic: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2126459 times)

Melissia

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5025 on: September 18, 2011, 06:59:03 am »

I just realized why my jeweler starved herself to death.

The jeweler's workshop apparently was placed in a location where she shut herself in the room behind it..

W W W W W W W F F F
W S S S S S W F F F
W S S J J J W F F F
W S S J J J F F F F
W S C J J J W F F F
W S S S S S W F F F
W W W W W W W F F F


W = wall
S = stockpile
F = floor
J = Jeweler's workshop
C = corpse of jeweler

Oddly this problem has not been encountered for any other workshop using this setup.

So this I guess serves as a warning-- the Jeweler's workshop (no other workshops confirmed) blocks the movement of dwarves!
« Last Edit: September 18, 2011, 07:00:35 am by Melissia »
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5026 on: September 18, 2011, 07:07:11 am »

When building a workshop, darker green X shapes will tell you which parts are impassible.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5027 on: September 18, 2011, 07:09:47 am »

Ah... thank you!
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5028 on: September 18, 2011, 09:43:57 am »

@Before lifer:

Y'know, you could've brought some stone with you, brought a mechanic, built a support, made some mechanisms, built a lever, then hooked up the support to the lever so you could have could have collapsed stuff from a distance, right?
Yes i do know that but i wanted to try it as a minimulistice and i only brought 2 copper nuggets. Im still suprised that the cavein dust that hit my miner lanched him 2 z levels into the air. It disaped right after lanching him too! Ah well I need to have some forts that have a few deaths early on for once XD
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5029 on: September 18, 2011, 11:44:20 am »

My best mildorf was hit up onto a the wall that surrounds the above ground training facility. I let the fort run and come back to see him dead from thirst.

He was hit up there while sparring. :\
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5030 on: September 18, 2011, 11:55:15 am »

I just realized why my jeweler starved herself to death.

...

So this I guess serves as a warning-- the Jeweler's workshop (no other workshops confirmed) blocks the movement of dwarves!

Dwarven jewelers are not called "sucicide booth enthusiasts" for nothing.

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5031 on: September 18, 2011, 04:26:50 pm »

More of a face desk really. Realized instead of building paved roads I'd been placing floor tiles. D'oh.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5032 on: September 18, 2011, 04:32:33 pm »

I just realized why my jeweler starved herself to death.

...

So this I guess serves as a warning-- the Jeweler's workshop (no other workshops confirmed) blocks the movement of dwarves!

Dwarven jewelers are not called "sucicide booth enthusiasts" for nothing.
Well, he's now occupying the first and only coffin/burial chamber I've had to make so far.

Mostly because usually when my dwarves die they die in unison.  This jeweler jumped the gun.  Or the jumped the hammer for a more thematic term.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5033 on: September 18, 2011, 08:42:07 pm »

on one of the older versions I equipped my entire militia with training weapons and accidentally trained one gobbo into a legendary spear goblin much !!fun!! was had when he eventually massacred my entire militia.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5034 on: September 19, 2011, 07:34:11 am »

I lost an entire squad (7 dwarves) to a single sturgeon, said sturgeon also slaughtered 16 other dwarves because instead of drinking the huge quantities of booze stashed away in the easily accessible stockpile, the went to the river. the thing was finally killed when a peasant knocked out in a goblin raid finally regained consciousness, went to the river for water, (DAMN!!) pulled the sturgeon out, and punched it to death.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5035 on: September 19, 2011, 08:22:58 am »

I lost an entire squad (7 dwarves) to a single sturgeon, said sturgeon also slaughtered 16 other dwarves because instead of drinking the huge quantities of booze stashed away in the easily accessible stockpile, the went to the river. the thing was finally killed when a peasant knocked out in a goblin raid finally regained consciousness, went to the river for water, (DAMN!!) pulled the sturgeon out, and punched it to death.
A solution to this problem for the future:  Build a channel that redirects the river in a U-shape, reconnecting with the river itself afterwards to keep the water as running water.  DO NOT let the water into the channel yet.  Build two grates, one on each end, and  THEN channel out the last two blocks to let the water flow through.  Designate a drinking area in this new channel.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5036 on: September 19, 2011, 09:09:36 am »

I lost an entire squad (7 dwarves) to a single sturgeon, said sturgeon also slaughtered 16 other dwarves ...

sturgeon or surgeon?

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« Reply #5037 on: September 19, 2011, 11:13:19 am »

So, got five years into a new fort. Snakeleaves or something like that. Was going well, had a surplus of everything, no invaders yet, blah blah. Good going stuff. Oh noes, an ambush! Go, admittedly untrained military! Oh... oh. You get murdered in five seconds flat. Er... um... Everyone inside, shut up the gates, it'll be okay while I get a danger room set up to go and kill 'em in a season or two! Wait, Urist McMiner has died of thirst? What the what what? Checked the Z-stocks screen. Oh. I'd apparently forgotten to make drinks for three years. >.> Those are important. All 60 some remaining dorfs in my fort fall over dead within twenty minutes of each other. Face, meet palm. >.<
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5038 on: September 19, 2011, 11:55:49 pm »

Well, I just breached the ocean about 15z down on accident.

This is going to end badly, all my miners (and picks!) are trapped in very rapidly flooding passages.

Fixed that mistake, and made another of the same type.   This time, I hit the ocean dead on instead of a corner....

And my entire fortress was underwater before anyone could blink.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #5039 on: September 20, 2011, 03:59:44 pm »

I lost an entire squad (7 dwarves) to a single sturgeon, said sturgeon also slaughtered 16 other dwarves ...

sturgeon or surgeon?

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