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OH YES. I HAVE NOW PIERCED MY FIRST AQUIFER.

I thank everyone in this thread!

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soil layer:     ###         ###   <- dug out, just leaving the cieling
aquifier layer: ####~~~~~~~####   <- channeled aquifier the same size as the plug
stone layer:    ###############   remove the final support and it should plug it
You might need another soil layer to create an actual plug made of walls, rather than just a cieling, I'm not sure.

That is what I have been doing, and yet when I dig through the plug, water rises to 7 instantly (even on aquifers that only show 1 level on the embark map (i.e. only 1 line of aquifer))

I have already read the wiki. I tried experimenting with the cave in method, but it can't get it to work.

I was overwhelmed at first,but I realized I just had to start small.Then you just start trying harder and harder things.

I got the controls figured out and I could probably keep a fortress running for a million years underground if I wanted to, but I constantly want to build big and I want to build big from the start. I want everything to be 100% effecient. Anything less is a waste of time.
For example, coal is, for me, a waste of perfectly good tree, which can be used to make beds in my symetrically aligned and effeciently planned bedrooms, when you can use magma instead.

But then I can't find a magma pipe in the first 10 minutes, so I start over, trying to find a biome with a volcano or the like.
Or even something as simple as the layout of my fort fucks me up. I try to plan everything ahead, but there is simply so much to plan it gets impossible to keep track of.

My biggest problem in Dwarf Fortress is myself.

After playing Dwarf Fortress for a week or so, every single fort I have had has gone and died before I felt I really got started, because of some mistake I did.

This made me realize that there is no learning curve. There is, instead, a learning wall.