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Author Topic: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2095708 times)

jcochran

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8550 on: May 29, 2014, 10:37:29 am »

This is one of them..
It is during a siege and that goblin just danced his way through the arrows(using a mod).

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Yup, the various weapon lords are very very hard to hit. You ought to see what the combat log looks like when one of 'em gets into the goblin grinder. They pretty much never get hit. In fact, they are the reason that my goblin grinders are now   hatch cover, pressure plate, weapon trap, weapon trap, ..., weapon trap, cage trap, pressure plate, hatch cover. The normal troops get diced and sliced fairly rapidly among the first few weapon traps and the weapon master dances and avoids all the weapon traps before being grabbed by the cage trap at the end of the line.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8551 on: May 29, 2014, 02:50:25 pm »

Upon closer inspection, the typical angry honey badgers caused him to jump into the pond.

That idiot.

Also, the game gives you a notification when someone is stung by a bee.

This calls for a comic.



EDIT: Oh, lol. My dorfs kept engraving windows on the wall of the dining room.

« Last Edit: May 29, 2014, 03:42:06 pm by Tawarochir »
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8552 on: May 29, 2014, 04:27:56 pm »

That last one made me crack up.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8553 on: May 29, 2014, 08:08:56 pm »

Yay, I finally made a funny comic.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8554 on: May 29, 2014, 10:09:54 pm »

That moment when you realize that your forgot to separate the were-elephant from the dining hall party before the full moon . . .
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8555 on: May 30, 2014, 12:28:49 am »

That moment when you realize that your forgot to separate the were-elephant from the dining hall party before the full moon . . .
At least it wasn't a wedding.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8556 on: May 30, 2014, 12:41:07 am »

Embarked on a volcano with a tiny bit of forest in the corner, set my dwarfs to build a bridge over the crater, carve a massive awesome entrance, only to realize the only soil is aaaaall the way over in that tiny corner. Had to dig all the way to the caverns, and thankfully got a large chunk that was easy to wall off, but now I'll have to build most of the fort far away from the awesome entrance hall, waaaaaaaay deep down.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8557 on: May 30, 2014, 01:10:47 am »

That moment when you realize that your forgot to separate the were-elephant from the dining hall party before the full moon . . .
At least it wasn't a wedding.
Would certainly be an order of magnitude worse than having ol' uncle Urist get up on a table and give a sober toast to the couple.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8558 on: May 30, 2014, 09:37:15 am »

Spending about 30 minutes carefully planning my embark, and then realizing I forgot to give any of my dwarves the "Miner" skill.
I didn't even make it to the first migrant wave, all seven dwarves were slaughtered in an alligator attack.  :-[
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8559 on: May 30, 2014, 09:40:50 am »

Cage traps.  So awesome.  A line of them by the river and a pastured animal.  Worth it if you have wood.

As an aside, am I the only one who notices that there is an awesome animal for taming/capture on the map (or one that shortly migrates onto the map) when the game starts and once it leaves it never shows up again?
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8560 on: May 30, 2014, 09:46:47 am »

That happens to me as well.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8561 on: May 30, 2014, 08:55:10 pm »

Spending about 30 minutes carefully planning my embark, and then realizing I forgot to give any of my dwarves the "Miner" skill.
I didn't even make it to the first migrant wave, all seven dwarves were slaughtered in an alligator attack.  :-[
Couldn't you have just assigned a dwarf to mining? Or did you and they were just too slow?
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8562 on: June 05, 2014, 09:07:59 am »

Embarked on a cold area. Dug a reservoir and began to fill it with water. One z-level lower than the river bed. It worked well. The next year, I decided to refill it when the water were all used to make a bathtub. And I opened the reservoir gate. However, water flooded from the well and four dwarves immediately drowned. It turns out that the downstream of the river is right on the edge of a colder area, and hasn't thawed yet, so the river was dammed, and water would rise to the same z-level as the river bed!
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #8563 on: June 06, 2014, 12:04:59 pm »

When designing a gas chamber. in its first test i learned 4 things about these things.poison gas FB don't have much range. That FBs with poison in its description dose NOT guarantee it will be a lethal poison,(vomit but thats about it), that i did not plan it to keep archer from just killing (a fairly useless) FB, and finally that my water purge system i had originally planned to clean the goblinite makes for a really good drown trap.
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« Reply #8564 on: June 06, 2014, 06:05:41 pm »

So, I finally negotiate peace with the elves and they give me a tree-cutting quota because, honestly, I don't have time to deal with them and my ranged defenses are currently imperfect.  The elf diplomat proceeds to leave via the main entryway and gets slaughtered by my civ's dwarven caravan which is currently trading there and, apparently, still at war *facepalm*
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