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Author Topic: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2130665 times)

darkflagrance

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #630 on: December 10, 2009, 09:11:49 am »

First death on my new fortress was a baby falling down a soon-to-be well.

T_T

Its parents probably died. They tend to suicide if their folks die.

First death
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #631 on: December 10, 2009, 09:48:52 am »

First death on my new fortress was a baby falling down a soon-to-be well.

T_T

Its parents probably died. They tend to suicide if their folks die.

First death

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #632 on: December 10, 2009, 09:51:04 am »

Saddest story ever written.

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Never used.
Should've given the kid a cabinet.

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #633 on: December 10, 2009, 05:40:53 pm »

I only just now realized that you can scroll through the announcement list.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #634 on: December 10, 2009, 08:58:19 pm »

Hey, this thread just got stickied, cool.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #635 on: December 10, 2009, 09:15:00 pm »

I guess this is the closest to a help thread we're going to get, so the sticky makes sense. I retroactively second the motion!
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #636 on: December 11, 2009, 12:25:25 am »

This thread has actually taught me a few things, so good stuff.

Just had a recent one. Didn't remove the ramps next to one of my fortress walls. Last siege this wasn't a problem, as I had no stairs to access the top and the lizardmen (Relentless Assault) were only pikemen and wrestlers. This time, a bunch of lizardmen bowmen managed to climb to the top of my walls and began firing on my hammerdwarves laying in wait for them to go through the front gate. Oops.

Amazingly, I only had one casualty. I think he was shot a few times then fell, the official cause of death was  "Collided with an obstacle" but I think that was just the final blow. Luckily, although my dwarves didn't have their final weapons, I had 10 dwarves halfway through my intensive cross-training regimen, so they had good wrestling, shield user, and agility plus steel chainmail.

Fake Edit: Strike that. Apparently, he fell off the wall and down the stairwell. So it was a 15 z-level fall that got him... ouch.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #637 on: December 11, 2009, 07:57:42 am »

For awhile I was oblivious to the mass forbid/dump/melt features; I spent more time with the game paused after a siege marking stuff than the siege lasted.

Reading this post, I realized that I STILL DO IT THAT WAY. *facepalm*
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #638 on: December 11, 2009, 12:25:59 pm »

I accidentally killed a cat with catapult fire instead of the peasant I was aiming at once. I really needed that cat.

Silly Shonus, catapults don't hurt dorfs!

NOt sure if you're joking or not, bt they mosy certainly do.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #639 on: December 11, 2009, 12:30:51 pm »

Cool, stickied.

I just started using Dwarf Companion.  I can't believe how much easier it is than the game interface.  Managing dwarves can be fun again!  All that time editing professions. . .
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #640 on: December 11, 2009, 03:38:02 pm »

First death on my new fortress was a baby falling down a soon-to-be well.

T_T

Its parents probably died. They tend to suicide if their folks die.

First death
Most likely the mother was asleep.  They tend to crawl off unless the mother actually gets a chance to pick them up.  One jumped out of my barraks and headed straight for the lava mote til the unbelievably agile mother ran to pick it up.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #641 on: December 11, 2009, 09:21:36 pm »

Yea I've actually seen that happen recently. (except instead of a magma moat it was the 13 z level dropshaft that goes down the middle of the central stairway) Funny how the moms can sleep through that kinda thing.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #642 on: December 12, 2009, 02:19:42 am »

Producing a legendary right before the seasonal change in the first year, followed by a goblin invasion.

I conscripted my entire population and hurled them at the invaders.  With hilarious results.  Dorf bits everywhere.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #643 on: December 12, 2009, 08:45:50 am »

Spending the entire afternoon covering the whole topside fort and yard with floors, one-by-one (oblivious to the UMKH keys), so it'll look awesome. Then realizing I can't build anything on constructed floors, and removing every single floor title, one-by-one. Then removing all the single-title paved roads outside the fort (again, one-by-one), because traps also cannot be constructed on them,

Good times!
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #644 on: December 12, 2009, 10:13:10 am »

I accidentally killed a cat with catapult fire instead of the peasant I was aiming at once. I really needed that cat.

Silly Shonus, catapults don't hurt dorfs!

NOt sure if you're joking or not, bt they mosy certainly do.

I'm pretty sure your populace is immune to catapults.
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