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[Blakeman]

I was wondering if I dam up a brook if it will back fill the valley it flows into? I have a biome where the brook froze so I was able to dam it up, the downstream side of the brook has dried out but the upstream side is still within its banks and hasn't overflowed into the valley it occupies. Will it eventually or will it remain a brook?

[Hungry]

It will remain brooked...but you can pump water out of the brookstump into a valley and hope for the best...like me =P
I dont know if it will just go back into the brook loop and disapear...but my guess is no...since my experiments with frozen brooks tells me that brookstumps generate water and barring evap it should theoreticly fill in with enough pumps...left continually on...maybe.

But barring flow into the old water runoff on the map edge, and evap it should stay.

But it wont self fill.

Ask river dammers, if a river will backflood...for if the damn stuff even does.

[Blakeman]

Would channeling out the entire valley where I want it to fill including the brook help the odds or just make a lake on that level?

If I would have known I needed a full on river to backfill then I would have picked a different site..... 

My plan was to have a dam upstream from my fortress and just kill all the caravans that come to me (including mountainhome, screw em I have the best Dwarves) in the hopes that I would have prolonged sieges and lots of warfare via me drowning them in torrential floods.

[Hungry]

I had a plan to turn all my mountainy rock tiles into muddy rock tiles...and see if stuff would naturally grow on it.

And dig a underground river cave that emptied into a chasm...and a lever that would flood the surface, and one to flood the fortress.

You can tell where the first went yourself... the second is several thousand ramps and diggings past the seige I'm currently under.

[Bauglir]

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