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Author Topic: Face Palm moments you had in Dwarf Fortress  (Read 2126612 times)

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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1005 on: January 27, 2010, 05:20:26 pm »

This sounds made up but it really happened to me.. I spend hours of mining and building on my new cliff side fort when I accidentally disconnected the entire fort from the cliff and well you can guess what happened.
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« Reply #1006 on: January 27, 2010, 06:07:50 pm »

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« Reply #1007 on: January 27, 2010, 08:08:06 pm »

This sounds made up but it really happened to me.. I spend hours of mining and building on my new cliff side fort when I accidentally disconnected the entire fort from the cliff and well you can guess what happened.
About 1 fps for half an hour? Lots of Fun? Massive Damage?
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« Reply #1008 on: January 28, 2010, 12:54:46 am »

Just had fire imp fat smoldering in my butcher's shop and marked as dump and caught 3 dwarves on fire and burned all my liquor...... oh the humanity!!!!
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« Reply #1009 on: January 28, 2010, 03:09:28 am »

Just had fire imp fat smoldering in my butcher's shop and marked as dump and caught 3 dwarves on fire and burned all my liquor...... oh the humanity!!!!
What a shame. All that booze lost, before its time. The dwarven scotch wasn't even 5 years old yet!  :'( :'( This is one of the reasons I'm very careful about dealing with imps.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1010 on: January 28, 2010, 03:50:07 am »

Just had fire imp fat smoldering in my butcher's shop and marked as dump and caught 3 dwarves on fire and burned all my liquor...... oh the humanity!!!!
What a shame. All that booze lost, before its time. The dwarven scotch wasn't even 5 years old yet!  :'( :'( This is one of the reasons I'm very careful about dealing with imps.
Booze was made to burn. 8)
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1011 on: January 28, 2010, 02:32:14 pm »

causing a cave-in over a magma pipe to 'see what happens' then found out 10 z levels down that I had dug right up along the magma pipe, and the cave-in punctured the roof through all that magma, which sent red hot death flowing through my living quarters

Epic!
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« Reply #1012 on: January 28, 2010, 03:19:47 pm »

This sounds made up but it really happened to me.. I spend hours of mining and building on my new cliff side fort when I accidentally disconnected the entire fort from the cliff and well you can guess what happened.
How the hell did that happen?
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1013 on: January 28, 2010, 03:30:15 pm »

This sounds made up but it really happened to me.. I spend hours of mining and building on my new cliff side fort when I accidentally disconnected the entire fort from the cliff and well you can guess what happened.
How the hell did that happen?
Unless I miss my guess, it was a result of trying to "prettify" the edges by mining out natural tiles and replacing them with constructed walls.  I've done this many times, occasionally dropping small chunks off the side and feeling like a fool.  To do it with a whole fort....  Spectacular.  If you have a save from a few frames before the...incident..., you should distribute it so that people can use it to benchmark processors.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1014 on: January 28, 2010, 04:39:00 pm »

Unless I miss my guess, it was a result of trying to "prettify" the edges by mining out natural tiles and replacing them with constructed walls.  I've done this many times, occasionally dropping small chunks off the side and feeling like a fool.  To do it with a whole fort....  Spectacular.  If you have a save from a few frames before the...incident..., you should distribute it so that people can use it to benchmark processors.
Well, there's always Project Cube.
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« Reply #1015 on: January 28, 2010, 08:17:46 pm »

I think the most facepalm-deserving moment(s) I have had were when I had to build, and then take apart and reconstruct my magma pumping system (which ran halfway across the map) not once, but twice, even building a power plant for it, only to find that it didn't work...and that there was nothing I could do to make it work.

It took a 100+ dwarf fortress over two years of game time to do it, too. =P
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1016 on: January 29, 2010, 06:31:08 am »

I had a really awesome sight once. It had a chasm, a bottomless pit, a magma pipe and lots of trees. Until my Fisherdwarf became a !!Fisherdwarf!!. the Fire imps caused a massive forest fire that made me lose all my booze (Because I was still digging out the dining room, my Woodcutter, Jeweler and Stoneworker.

But on a positive note my Fish Cleaner gave those imps a major asskicking.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1017 on: January 29, 2010, 09:37:38 am »

This sounds made up but it really happened to me.. I spend hours of mining and building on my new cliff side fort when I accidentally disconnected the entire fort from the cliff and well you can guess what happened.
I would feel silly too.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1018 on: January 29, 2010, 11:29:04 am »

This sounds made up but it really happened to me.. I spend hours of mining and building on my new cliff side fort when I accidentally disconnected the entire fort from the cliff and well you can guess what happened.
How the hell did that happen?
Unless I miss my guess, it was a result of trying to "prettify" the edges by mining out natural tiles and replacing them with constructed walls.  I've done this many times, occasionally dropping small chunks off the side and feeling like a fool.  To do it with a whole fort....  Spectacular.  If you have a save from a few frames before the...incident..., you should distribute it so that people can use it to benchmark processors.

Smooth and engrave, just smooth and engrave.

My latest was forgetting that magma only acts like water when it is a continuous stream to an operating pump and that a magma fall needs a drainage pipe larger than the inlet flow.

Previous to that I forgot that stone furniture melts, resulting in the loss of several ( :-\ 6) masterpiece statues.
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Re: Face Palm moments you had
« Reply #1019 on: January 30, 2010, 07:16:59 am »

Not noticing why my dwarfs keep dying, then i decide to follow the odd looking parade and realize they were going across the map to fetch water for two lightly injured wrestlers, lost about five of the most important dwarwes that way, including my metalworkers, outpost broker and leader and my only expirienced bowyer.
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