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one word, just one word: AQUIFER

ok here's another two: underground lake.

the good stuff about aquifer is, that you could drain even the ocean into it, seriously.

Quote from: Lamphare on February 07, 2011, 08:17:25 am

it reminds me of the quote on wiki, saying a dwarf who loves to eat purring maggots, while absolutely detests it.

Maybe they really like the taste but hate the way they look?  I imagine them as a kind of furry shrimp, so that makes sense.

well i've been to a region in china, where processed meat of rat, or rat-like rodent was considered exquisited, and, at least generally, preserved for someone important or a guest. despite my hatred toward rat, the meat was fantastic!
so i guess you are right.

sorry, but i guess i lost it.
it was quite few months ago 

edit:not because it thawed and my dwarves drowned.
cuz when it thawed it took literally 10 minutes for my pc to process.

i think i encoutered on, though not intended, mid-river waterfall, as rivers enters hill and/or woodland from mountain.
but it was merely three z-levels high.
and not sure if it is common.

so when i want a waterfall, i just go for joining rivers.

when i trained my metalsmiths, i ended up with over a dozen masterfully/exceptionally designed statues of large roach.
then i put those statues in rooms of people who detest roach.

voila! a HUGE large roach statue in your room!
oh it's even in your favourite metal?

then the only way i can then come up with is building a magma reservoir filled with dfliquid magma.
my idea depleted.

i put special food stockpile accepting only prepared meal near communal dinning hall and near noble quarters, since they have their own dinning besides their bedrooms, with no barrel.

finding natural waterfall is easy alone, assuming you set the world gen parameters to support just enough erosion and river start points, and hill tiles. too much eronsion means a somewhat flat world, while too few hills mean no terran for waterfall to form.
then go to embark screen, change to relative elevation mod, and cycle through region tiles that contain rivers joining together. that should be easy to tell. then in relative elevation screen, should you see something like a 'piston' with colours of higher elevation, stabbing into a strip with colours of lower elevation
like
LLMMLMLLLL
LMMLMMLLLL
LMMLMMMMMM
LMMHHHHHHH
LMMLMMMMMM
where M, L, H are medium, low and high elevation.then there is a waterfall

you can change to cliff indicator to see roughly how high the waterfall may be.

the hard part is to get waterfall along with all other things you want for you fort.