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[ragincajun]

So I'm pretty well versed in basic wells dug in from a river or pool source.  I've yet to try one over a cavern source.

It appears my cavern is five levels deep.  If I channel out in the floor above the cavern...with the well (rope and bucket) reach down five levels to the water source?  Or do I have to go in the floor above the water and build a floor there? 

If I haven't cleared the cavern...will they be able to attack my floor platform?  (If this is the way to do it?)

Or do I just channel out from the cavern like I would a river into solid stone?

[slothen]

wells can reach down quite a bit.  They're wells!

5 z levels is not much, so just do that.  The long delay in lowering and raising the bucket can be an issue with 10-20 z level wells.

Fun fact, you can have wells stacked on top of eachother drawing from the same source, provided they line up and there are no floors/walls/grates/hatches/whatever in between.  When I make a cistern to serve the fortress (that is not just using water where i happen to find it), I tend to stack the well room and the hospital on top, and have the hospital have its own wells.

[Insanegame27]

If you dig a channel straight down, the miner will climb straight out of the hole when it's done.

Dig a channel straight down above the cavern water
Build a well over the hole


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[ragincajun]

Awesome. Thanks.