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[DatDing15]

Hello!

This my third fortress and I can say I am quite proud of myself. I survived 7 years so far and have a full squad stocked with different Weapon-Lords.

Here is the topic. I wanted to dig a moat with water in it. The water comes from a nearby river. However I screwed up and now I have a chunk of dirt left to dig. I stopped experimenting with three "disappeared" dwarfs now.

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Do you guys and girls have any possible solutions?

Kind regards!

[anewaname]

If you just need that 3x5 area replaced with water, then you would channel it... first do the five tiles near the wall, then the five middle tiles, then the last 5 tiles. If that is not what you are trying to do... what are you trying to do and how did those dwarfs disappear?

[DatDing15]

Thank you for your reply!

Well they don't disappear they drown. (disappear meant to be joke, that's why I put it in quotation marks)

I don't have any swimmers and until they reach my emergency exit (which is only five tiles away) they drown.


However I need to confess something embarrassing:
Today the winter was nearly over. And with winter comes ice. I am an idiot. This god damn unfinished moat was already 5 to 6 winters there and only now a few hours AFTER I post this topic, my brain registered what could be done with ice. I basically just channeled while everything was frozen.

I really thank you for your time though!

[anewaname]

Just don't forget how dangerous ice and water is... but you get a chance to get the bodies into coffins now.