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[Samoorai]

I had a fisherdwarf get mauled by a honey badger. He subsequently fell into the river (at the designated fishing and drinking spot, and upstream of the underground fresh water system intake) and died. This lead to many dwarves becoming horrified and emotionally stunned when they went for a drink or to fish.

The question is, how do I get the corpse, and all his clothes, out of there?

[Aristion]

It is nearly impossible to get the corpse. Just engrave a slab for him and turn it into discipline training and maybe designate anther fishing/drinking zone.

[Rafatio]

"Upstream of your freshwater intake" doesn't matter at all, and if it freezes in winter you'll be rid of the stuff anyway. Not many clothes are worth diverting a river for.

[therahedwig]

To give an idea what you need to get the corpse out:

*)You need to have the water at at the least 3/7 if none of your dwarves are swimming.

*)However, your fisher fell into a stream, streams are water-sources so the water is always 7/7.

*)To get the water down sufficiently, you'll need to build three-ish pumps and people to pump the water out. Then when the water is low enough, get your dwarves in to pull the body out.

So all in all, winter is likely to encase him in ice before you get him out.

[Swonnrr]

Okay, for a number of reasons, I tend to build a floodgate system upstream of the river, to dry up the whole thing on command.
Here is how I do.

TL;DR: Use screwpumps the whole width of the river to play moise.

The following shematics are a top view of a perfectly straight river, flowing from north to south.
~ for water (assumed non-walkable, 7/7, but we don't really care.)
. for floor
b for bridge, of constructed floors preferably.
S for screw pumps.
W for walls

First we have:

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First step is to build a bridge, from wich you can work.

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Then you build a row of screw pumps, pumping south to north.

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Then you add walls to avoid flooding the whole map

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Then it's up to you to power it via wind/waterwheel, dwarf power or something else.
You have the choice to either wait for the whole river to flow off-map/dry up, wich can take a year or two and may be a problem if you need it done fast/can't build a powered system and spare the dwarves. (hint: I always built a shelter around the system so I can operate it even in case of sieges.)
Or build the same system reversed 3 tiles south. That will keep the water from flowing back.

Then, in the dried spot, you just build a raw of walls/floodgates and a lever.

The same concept can be applied to aquifer, and even volcanos.
Pump the whole thing back into itself, faster than it can refill. Litterally playing a strength/endurance game against mother nature.
It's the simplest; most dwarven thing I can imagine.

[Samoorai]

Too warm for the river to freeze in winter. I think I'll just abandon this world and wait till the baby-splosion bug has been fixed. As much as I like the idea of sex as a greeting, the constant flow of babies is annoying. Also one of my starting dwarves was spawned pregnant. Thanks for the ideas though.

[Morrigi]

Too warm for the river to freeze in winter. I think I'll just abandon this world and wait till the baby-splosion bug has been fixed. As much as I like the idea of sex as a greeting, the constant flow of babies is annoying. Also one of my starting dwarves was spawned pregnant. Thanks for the ideas though.

According to the devlog, that should be in the next update.