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Quote from: mieserb on January 28, 2015, 03:40:12 am

I wanted to build up a fishing industry and I have a question. I want divert water from a river to an save indoor zone, which I then can use for fishing without my dorfs going out in the wild. Will fish populated that area? What are the restrictions for fish migration? Diagonal digs, opened hatches, floodgates, z-lvl drops.?

You can also wall off and enclose a section of river... will give you both running water and a fishing zone.

Well, that's what I did eventually, although I liked the the original idea better because it's quite a walk from my fort to the river. I tried to use an indoor fishing zone, but it always showed zero. 
Interesting though that my question spawned such a discussion. It seems noone is quite sure about the fish moving mechanics.
However I can vaguely remember having an indoor fishing zone in one of my previous forts and I don't recall having any problems. But I'm not a hundred percent sure about the layout I used.

You can have your channels on the workshop level and use under- or over-passes for the dorfs to pass the channels. It only increases the distance by 2 steps, as dorfs move at the same speed vertically as horizontally. I don't know if a channeled/ramped down/up path might even cut the cost to zero, though.

I never thougt about this, but you're right.
I just like straight corridors  I think.    Although maybe I should try thinking more vertically.

Anyway, I tested my proposed method and it did work. Left Cistern filled first, then the one on the right.

I haven't played DF for a couple of month. Now I started building a new fort and am a little confused. I tried to fill pools using pressurized water but it doesn't seem to work, which is odd because I'm more used to flooding my whole fort when doing stuff like this.
I'm just gonna attach two screenshots to clarify what I mean.

Top level:


Bottom Level:


Does anyone know what's going on here?

My Dwarfs just managed to kill a Megabeast with their bare hands. The beast was butchered and now I have quite a few bones. I wanted to craft some stuff out of them (like a bone breastplate for the peasant who dealt the killing blow and thus beacame the new commander ). However, when I forbid all bones except the ones from the beast all the building options in the bonecarver's shop are red as if there are no materials available. Long story short: I wanted to know if it is possible to build stuff with MB bones  and if so, what did I do wrong?

(Might want to spoiler tag the question; continued discussion is going to involve spoilers one way or another, and some people actually are bothered...)

Done. Sorry about that.

Pfft...losing only one dwarf? Almost feels like cheating. 

My Invader-Repelling-Magma-Thingie is finally ready...again. I want to do a test run but my stupid dwarfes keep running around in the Danger Zone although I specifically tell them not to.
I'm seriously considering to round up a dozen or so children and use them as test subjects just to send a message.

Sooo, I just built my very first Anti-Invader-Magma-Entrance.
Note to self: Hatches with Gneiss mechanisms will be destroyed by magma, which then floods your fortress.
Fortunatly, I was able to stop the magma flow before anyone was seriously injured. At least I didn't find any remains. Is it possible that Dorfs completly dissolve when magma is involved?