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[Some Internet Guy]

So I just dealt with my fortress's first real invader, a legendary Titan. Despite having no weapons but the axes my woodcutters came with and a couple of crossbows with about five bolts apiece, I took it down with only one loss because I am awesome.

My awesomeness did not extend, however, to preventing about half the fort from getting wounded in some way while they beat a tore a giant flashing death machine apart with their bare hands. And herein lies the problem, because I'm on an ocean map and the dorfs refuse to touch any water anywhere, no matter if it comes from the ponds or the aquifier or wherever. I just patched it not recently- do the recent patches fix the water fetch bug to include alcohol or allow any drinking whatsoever on maps with bad water? It'd kinda suck to lose only one unit to the monster and then lose the entire rest to poor health care and alpha status.

[Mystry]

Eeeeh, did you try designating a Drinking zone over a few tiles of land and the body of freshwater? Like a resevouir or something.

[Another]

I have heard that the ocean waves are counted as good drinking water. Can you collect them into some kind of a pond and designate water source zone there?

[BurnedToast]

All water on ocean maps apparently counts as salt water (even the pools and aquifer).

If ocean waves are fresh water (I don't know) you could just build a chamber down 1-zlevel from the beach, then dig a channel that the waves flow over into it, and it will slowly fill up.