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So I have a neat embark spot with a deep gorge and a major river at the bottom.  I am doing some building in the gorge using glass blocks.  So a few questions about this...

1. Glass and building destroyers?  Are these "solid" walls for defense purposes?
2. The river freezes in winter...if I build an "underwater level" with a floor, walls and ceiling that would be submerged during "non-frozen" parts of the year will this work?
3. Glass windows...how are they affected by the above two queries?

Thanks!

 Would this be possible and how would you go about it?  Basically if you would actually want to build a Waterworld type civilization where your building on the ocean surface or lake surface and then building up and down from there.

So I've never really done a project before.  Always been trying to learn new little parts of the game as I go along and military was my latest project.

Anyway, I've built an entryway with ramps down and a hallway dug to connect the ramps.  In the ground floor section above the hall I've built a wall surrounding it with the idea of building a cistern/reflection pool.  It's not huge, maybe 5x20 in size. 

I'm not too far from the river at the corner of the map.  What I want to try to do is run water via pipes from the river to the gate area and then up one z-level (to clear the wall) and then pour down into the containment area to fill it up.  I'm thinking a water wheel is needed to power the water flow through the pipes and then I think a screw pump to move it up the z-level to clear the wall (maybe two screw pumps if I have to go up two levels to actually get over the wall height).  But even reading water wheel and screw pump I'm not sure how to set it up.  Any suggestions?

R=River
r=ramps (at ground level)
W- Walls of fortress
w= Proposed water wheel to move water from the river
p= Proposed piping (to move the water from the river)
S= Proposed Screw Pump

R
RwppppppppppppppppppppS
R                      WWWWWrrrWWW
                                    w  w
                                    w  w
                                    w  w
                                      rrr


OK, still reading on this and I think the water wheel is not needed.  What I'm needing (I think) is a pump stack...but while I "see" how it works on the wiki what I'm struggling with is how to get it to work in my situation.  I need to move the water vertically on the same z-level to get it near my cistern and then use screw pumps going up...I think.

Is there a way to do this without having to build additional mini-cisterns to store the water?  I don't mind building one adjacent to the cistern if I need to temporarily to build the screw pump over but seems like pipes would work to transfer the water but not really seeing a way to lay pipe to do this.

Reposted as requested.

So I have no surface water.

Found a nice water source in first cavern layer and had a nice well room all set up and functioning.  A cave dragon and a fire belching FB got into it and boiled off all the water (yes a 7/7 layer that was pretty good sized).  Will that water ever replenish or am I screwed?

I did a reveal, that was the only water on the map.

Is there a way to save created armor sets/uniforms for future games? 

Example: If I create an Archers set with all copper gear can I save this to move into a new game in the future without having to reset it manually?

So with the advent of taverns is there any real reason for a dining hall? 

It seems that once I set up a tavern that seems to become the central hub of activity and where my dwarves begin to hang out.  So just wondering if I should look at a tavern or two and forego the dining hall...