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Schmaven

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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10575 on: May 04, 2019, 07:42:45 am »

Just read about crops after playing for years and realized only 1 of the underground 6 is edible with no processing required...

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Crop

It did inspire me to get into the textile / paper industries more though.

So a goblin siege arrives, I retract a bridge to force them to swim around - delaying them while my surface dwarves get inside.  While they go inside I'll just work on digging out the lower rooms of the fort some more to make more underground farms. 

Some time later in the notification window:
Urist cancels construct bag, interrupted by a goblin hammerman.

Oops, I never did go back up and order that lever pulled once the dwarves got inside.  Now 40+ goblins are in the main stairway.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10576 on: May 20, 2019, 12:27:24 pm »

It took a long time for me to figure out that a squad cannot train without a barracks. Good thing no sieges happened.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10577 on: May 25, 2019, 04:23:56 pm »

Oh hey I can use autodump to get rid of all those large clothing items clogging the bedrooms!
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After the fire had burned down all of the wooden next boxes on the surface, Mottled Petrel was reluctant to replace them with more wooden nest boxes. Instead, he placed the remaining store of wooden nest boxes in the dormitory for any aspiring koopa mothers.

The nest boxes were immediately overrun by helmet snakes.

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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10578 on: May 25, 2019, 08:40:49 pm »

Wait till you hear about cleanowned!
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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10579 on: May 26, 2019, 12:10:55 am »

i knew about that one! but this wasn't owned items it was junk from a randgen fortress i'd reclaimed. currently i'm using it to move goblinite to a convenient location near the smelters on a diff fortress.

[edit]also i really hope it saves properly cuz i did a dumb and started to open the sims without closing and saving DF first.
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After the fire had burned down all of the wooden next boxes on the surface, Mottled Petrel was reluctant to replace them with more wooden nest boxes. Instead, he placed the remaining store of wooden nest boxes in the dormitory for any aspiring koopa mothers.

The nest boxes were immediately overrun by helmet snakes.

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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10580 on: May 26, 2019, 07:28:29 am »

i knew about that one! but this wasn't owned items it was junk from a randgen fortress i'd reclaimed. currently i'm using it to move goblinite to a convenient location near the smelters on a diff fortress.

[edit]also i really hope it saves properly cuz i did a dumb and started to open the sims without closing and saving DF first.

If you didn't close it, you can click it in the bottom area (taskbar?) and then save and close. I don't think opening something closes you out.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10581 on: May 26, 2019, 04:29:02 pm »

i knew about that one! but this wasn't owned items it was junk from a randgen fortress i'd reclaimed. currently i'm using it to move goblinite to a convenient location near the smelters on a diff fortress.

[edit]also i really hope it saves properly cuz i did a dumb and started to open the sims without closing and saving DF first.

If you didn't close it, you can click it in the bottom area (taskbar?) and then save and close. I don't think opening something closes you out.
i forced quit the sims before it fully booted up. it's the memory i was worried about, since simulations of any kind, (dwarf fortress, sims, kerbal space program), tend to take up a lot of memory and processing power.
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After the fire had burned down all of the wooden next boxes on the surface, Mottled Petrel was reluctant to replace them with more wooden nest boxes. Instead, he placed the remaining store of wooden nest boxes in the dormitory for any aspiring koopa mothers.

The nest boxes were immediately overrun by helmet snakes.

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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10582 on: May 26, 2019, 04:45:43 pm »

I hope it worked.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10583 on: May 27, 2019, 02:11:20 pm »

it did, but now there's a dragon and i don't have much in the way of dwarfy defenses.
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After the fire had burned down all of the wooden next boxes on the surface, Mottled Petrel was reluctant to replace them with more wooden nest boxes. Instead, he placed the remaining store of wooden nest boxes in the dormitory for any aspiring koopa mothers.

The nest boxes were immediately overrun by helmet snakes.

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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10584 on: May 27, 2019, 02:17:27 pm »

it did, but now there's a dragon and i don't have much in the way of dwarfy defenses.
just the way the fort before my current fort died... 3 times reclaiming failed even further as the underground rooms beneath the ocean biome filled with water each time i reclaimed and flooded some levels, whiel that dragon was safe inside the main stairwell.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10585 on: May 27, 2019, 04:25:31 pm »

it did, but now there's a dragon and i don't have much in the way of dwarfy defenses.
just the way the fort before my current fort died... 3 times reclaiming failed even further as the underground rooms beneath the ocean biome filled with water each time i reclaimed and flooded some levels, whiel that dragon was safe inside the main stairwell.
The stairwell seems to be the best spot to fight dragons as their fire doesn't have as much room to spread, giving the dwarves a better chance to get close enough for a swing at it.
...Or close enough so that when they are flamed, the molten steel mist that was their armor gets in the dragon's face.  Just throw wave after wave of your own men at it, and eventually you'll win.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10586 on: May 27, 2019, 05:16:30 pm »

When faced with large sieges and flying units, I bravely, gallantly, and proudly shut every entrance, go ‘neener-neener’ out the arrow slits and eat mushroomf until they go away. Works every time. It’s even bettee when it turns out there was an entrance which couldn’t be closed and now the farmers are dead and there’s a cyclops killing the haulers. That was fun.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10587 on: May 29, 2019, 12:15:37 pm »

You mean !FUN!.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10588 on: May 29, 2019, 12:50:05 pm »

When faced with large sieges and flying units, I bravely, gallantly, and proudly shut every entrance, go ‘neener-neener’ out the arrow slits and eat mushroomf until they go away. Works every time. It’s even bettee when it turns out there was an entrance which couldn’t be closed and now the farmers are dead and there’s a cyclops killing the haulers. That was fun.
i try that always and end up without a proper leverroom (and withou linked levers and bridges) near my godlike meetinghall because other tragedies keep my dorfs from completing it.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress
« Reply #10589 on: May 30, 2019, 08:36:49 pm »

hahaha yeah well that's basically what i did for the goblin sieges. which is why my militia is understaffed. we're still cleaning up from that mess.
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After the fire had burned down all of the wooden next boxes on the surface, Mottled Petrel was reluctant to replace them with more wooden nest boxes. Instead, he placed the remaining store of wooden nest boxes in the dormitory for any aspiring koopa mothers.

The nest boxes were immediately overrun by helmet snakes.
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