r/dwarffortress

Of course there's the classics like cats dieing of alcohol poisoning and dwarves wearing babies into battle, but what are some lesser known ones, or your favorites?

Edit: give some details, not everyone is up to date on 20 years of updates, bugs, and changes

The king of my civilization moved in my fortress, so I made a quite expensive throne room (total value around 65000 - I verified by making it a guildhall temporarily to check the value), but it's still considered an Opulent throne room in the nobles and administrators menu (and the king doesn't like it, the queen does, at least).

I thought the threshold for Royal Throne Room was 10000, so I waited for a long time thinking the bookkeeper would estimate it correctly, but it's not updating.

The bookkeeper has an office and I didn't notice any other record keeping issues.

Am I missing something?

Craftcrowns was a nice small Hamlet of about 45 dwarves I started yesterday in the year 100. A local militia was raised to fight off the stray honey badgers terrorizing the woodcutters, led by the commander "Hammertime". I even managed to outfit my militia with bronze weapons and armor sourced from trade with the caravans while I explored the layers underneath for metals to smelt. The only major loss I had up until this absolute nut kick from the goblins was a legendary carpenter named "Very Short Elf" getting crushed by a tree they were felling for more premium Ikea furniture for the fort.

In the year 102 1st of Galena, two child snatchers showed up from a neighboring goblin civilization named the Ruthlessness of Throwing. One corrupted dwarf thief and one... white demon thief. I figured they wouldn't be so hard to dispatch. The militia (comprising of a swordsdwarf, axedwarf, Hammtertime the commander, and two fresh new unarmed recruits) was roused and sent to defend the entrance to the fort. The dwarven thief met their end quick, getting a crushing blow from Hammertime to the side fracturing their spine before being cut down by the others. Then the demon charged in and... Hammertime dropped their warhammer with a small speck of gore sailing across the screen.

Delimbing scratches

First oh fuck moment.

Of course it breathes fire

Well there goes the militia and yep... fire.

Not sure if wooden constructions can burn down but atleast the fort was made out of brick.

Absolute chaos ensues with dwarves being cut down left and right. Some try and hide on the walls of the fort.

The rest flee being cut off from the fort by huge walls of fire burning through the forest. The white demon thief chases them.

I am not that experienced of a player with this being only my 4th or so serious fort.

Luckily the thief got bored and left after it realized it turned the only two children into the fort into minced roasts.

The final death toll is 28. I got 19 dwarves left and a lot of clean up to do, hopefully nothing as bad turns up in the next year.

I hit the circus before on accident and saw all the fun stuff there. But I thought that since it was a demon thief it wouldn't be so bad, not making that mistake again.

Idk how I have never done this in like a decade of playing this game, but I just found a goblin civ that had a lot of cave dragons and then just mercilessly raided them for livestock with my legendary axedwarves squad. And now I have like 20 war cave dragons and a successful *cave dragon breeding program*! We will continue to dog deeper and see what fun stuff the dragons may defend against down there!