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I tried a little bit of messing around with the DFHack liquids menu, but I am pretty far from expert on DFHack as I only downloaded it yesterday.

I figured out how to seal the cavern lakes off from map edges by forming obsidian walls. I wondered if water leaving or entering the map was causing the problem because normally you would expect the lakes to be uniform 7/7 wouldn't you? That didn't affect the calculations per tick or whatever is driving the insane lag.

Couldn't get new water to add to existing water though, only create it on dry tiles. There's probably a trick to it that I don't understand.

I didn't see any way to convert the water to ice. Would that be something possible on the fly via raws etc? Like changing the temperature of the zone to freezing, like rivers freezing at night in adventure mode?

Any tips? Or failing that, I could upload my existing save (with my adventurer Kogan inside the fort having killed first FB, which incidentally when butchered created a whopping 448 meat...) so that someone with a bit more modding experience could take a look? As I said in my first post I haven't been playing long and until now had stuck to Vanilla with no mods etc.

Painfully slowly, Kogan "Ironhammer" Datannil stealthily sneaked towards the imposing edifice of Bronzebanners. He noticed a few mountain goats and a lonely dwarf trader were the only things living on the surface, strewn with hundreds of corpses.

Sneaking into a winding tunnel, Kogan realised too late that this was probably a goblin death chamber - a thought confirmed as a whirring trap knocked the wind from him. Dodging like a ninja, he made it to the end of the tunnel and the entrance proper with only a bruised stomach and lower body. (Not to mention the missing tooth and cracked toenails from a particularly vicious battle with a group of 20 outlaws a few days previously...)

Edging ever closer into the fortress proper, Kogan was saddened by the carnage. Skeletons of his brethren lay scattered wide. Sneaking down into what appeared to be the dormitory level, Kogan's keen hearing heard the scraping of something... alive!

Crawling to the source, Kogan threw open the *diorite door* to reveal a hideous creature... apparently having a nap on a bed.

Zakost Dorkulozu was an enormously fat creature. A twisted bird-thing with three baleful eyes, it looked to be resting an injury. Kogan noticed it's left foot had rotted away. Armok only knows what foul creature had injured a beast such as this.

Without a second's thought, Kogan set about the beast in the darkness, wielding his Ξ<*iron pick*>Ξ and +iron battle axe+ like a dervish. What seemed like days later, the creature was bruised and broken. Gushing foul blood from multiple broken limbs and in thick gouts from it's torn heart. Kogan swung his axe in one last valiant effort, describing a shining arc which separated the malevolent beast's head from it's avian shoulders...

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