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=== Community links: ===
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090217113612/http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php The Bay12 forums].
** [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=28477.0 Video tutorials]{{Dead link}}.
** [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=31928.0 Play-along tutorials]{{Dead link}}.
** [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=89305.msg2458117#msg2458117 The Hall of Legends].
** [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=86248.0 The Dwarven Knowledge Centre]: ''or'' Doing Unnatural Things To Dwarven Physics for !!Science!!
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* [[Bizarrchitecture]]: [[Let's Play|Headshoots]]' Room Outside Space could be an odd example - there was nothing [[Alien Geometries|out of]] [[Chaos Architecture|the ordinary]] about it or the way into it, except that players were somehow unable to find it unless there was a dwarf inside to zoom to.
** {{spoiler|When the last "overseer" made a pact with the HFS to bring down Headshoots by turning its 2 greatest champions into skeletons to kill the others, one dwarf hid in this room, taking supplies with him. He was allowed to live after the player found him by zooming to him.}}
** Also worth mentioning: the forums are running a [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=45908.0 contest to build a tower from soap]{{Dead link}}. Only in Dwarf Fortress...
** By the time it ended, [[Battlefailed]] was an absolute rat's maze of chambers, tunnels, shafts and caverns, interconnected and interlaced, some of which were rapidly flooding with water or magma.
** Almost every player turn in Deathgate usually begins with something along the lines of "this place makes no sense at all".
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*** Was recently alternate dimension tested against all of the legendary adamantine equipped military and won without a single scratch. Investigation proved that due to fanatical training, he had acquired a skill of ''130 out of 15'' (15 is legendary), much more powerful than either of the champions of Headshoots above. The fort leader is planning to see whether he can kill the clowns solo.
** [http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=101941.0 Vanod Openfires], naked, human, last of his kind, carrying only a copper spear. Dedicated to exploring every inch of the only dry land in the world, the monster-haunted island Elifa Adapi, and killing every single inhabitant. And then eating them, if possible.
* [[Military Mashup Machine]]: [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=36955.0 Nazushdur Anrizgeshud Nom]{{Dead link}}, one of the finest examples of Dwarvern <s>hubris</s> awesomeness.
* [[Nice Job Fixing It, Villain]]: A loose example of this can be found in the reclaim of Battlefailed. The various poisons and dusts which permeated the Fortress of Old Battlefailed became the new fortress's best defense; while the poisons killed all of the dwarves livestock and any dwarves dumb enough to take off their shoes, it stopped countless [[Too Dumb to Live|barefooted]] Kobold invaders and about a dozen forgotten beasts.
* [[Noodle Incident]]: For newer members to the Bay12 Forums, the deleted Various Nonsense Subforum can be this. Most of the senior members of the community seem reluctant to talk about it, besides cryptic offhand notes involving Penguins and Inter Subforum Invasions.
* [[Omnicidal Maniac]]: [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=46033.0 The Ages of Emptiness and Death Experiment]{{Dead link}}, in which ''every sentient being in the game world'' was killed... [[For Science!]].
* [[One-Man Army|One Dwarf Army]]: In the on-going LP Headshoots, a dwarf became so ridiculously powerful that when a band of kobolds arrived, said berserking dwarf waded through a pool of magma to reach them. And was completely unharmed. Sadly the kobolds fled before the dwarf in question could reach them, leaving her to console herself with single-handedly butchering a dragon. Also without being harmed.
** Also, the dev. Yes, the one dev.
** [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=19279.0 Captain Ironblood]{{Dead link}}. He killed a hdyra. While naked an unarmed. He's also taken on 80+ orcs and won. But then again, almost any of the champions of Nist Akath qualify.
** [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=34933.0 Morul, the most interesting dwarf in the world]{{Dead link}}. An attempt to create [[The Ace]] had the side-effect of raising his stats to the point where he could defeat 4-5 orc hordes singlehandedly,and once hit an orc [[media:OrcStrikeAnnot.png|hard enough to splatter it against a wall]] ''[[Punched Across the Room|155 tiles away]]''. Predictably, players then [[Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny|pitted Ironblood and Morul against each other]].
** One dwarf in Syrupleaf punted a warhorse over a mountain. And ''then'' proceeded to beat seven kinds of it out of the ''Frost Giant'' that had been riding said horse until it was suddenly punted out from under him. (''With a backpack'' if I recall.)
* [[Only Sane Man]] / [[Surrounded by Idiots]]: The usual character POV in a [[Let's Play]].
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*** And a device to unleash all the cats in one go. The various succession players seemed to enjoy making these and forgetting to tell anyone about them. This of course is half the fun.
{{quote|''I added two levers. One opens the magma. The other sets free all the cats.''}}
** The [http://www.bay12games.com/forum/index.php?topic=39603.0 SparkGear]{{Dead link}} series of succession forts: now in its 6th incarnation. also seem fond of this.
*** Oddly enough, inverted in one SparkGear: The overground fortress/town had a large complex that would cause random explosions, killed a few dwarves in its construction, and had to be micromanaged just to keep it from flooding the place with magma - while it was idling, not to mention in use. Its purpose was to provide water on a glacier.
** Syrupleaf, quite oddly, seems to lack a suitable one of these. {{spoiler|MOLENAROK}} comes the closest, unleashing 60 or so giant Moledogs to tear apart invaders like a feral wolf pack. It hasn't been used very successfully, though. {{spoiler|GLACIERASER}} had potential for this, and would have possibly melted the entire south pole had it worked, but failed to. Even now, the goons clamor for a suitably apocalyptic superweapon for Syrupleaf.
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