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[Doppel]

So, i've got this great 2x2 location (from version 38) part on a glacier and a tundra.
It has a aquifer so i figured i should make a icesculpture right in the middle of the map.
My plan was to make a massive 14 x 14 x 14 iceblock wich i could "sculpt" later (dig) and engrave.
The aquifer is located on the tundrasite wich lays on the left, first i constructed some stairs (on the left site of what was to become my block of ice) to the top from wich i can drop water. But after 4 or so z levels up were completed something strange happened, all of a sudden my dwarves canceled hauling water for my icesculpture, "building innapropriate" as the socalled reason. Normally this only occured when the "pond" was filled with water, yet it wasn't now, even stranger, exactly the left half of the pond was filled with ice deadcentered on the exact vertical line in the middle of the map wich i find to be extremely strange if it were to be pure luck. I tried numerous things including channeling the aquifer closer to where they need to drop the water, yet i failed making them cross this magical line of "cancel fill pond, building innapropriate" and i failed figuring out what causes this very strange behavior. If anyone can help giving the reason for this cancelation and/or the solution then that would be great, because as of now i worked tirelessly trying to make that icescultpure happen to strand on a pathetic 4 or so storyhigh block of ice.

[tp12]

maybe the water is freezing in the buckets, check one of the dwarves inventory just after they cancel the job.

[Doppel]

Don't think its that because the moment they gather water they cancel fill pond (before even going outside).

[Doppel]

Update:
I built some stairs on the right side of my wouldbe sculpture and it fixed the problem. The funny thing is that they don't even use the newly built stairs and now continue to fill the pond via the exact same pathway they did before being "obstructed" by that "magical line", coupled with how strange it seemed to cancel filling the pond on the exact middle of the map i guess its because of some pathfinding bug.
I'll update if i run into a similar problem on levels above this one.

[tp12]

do.

[Doppel]

So far so good, at z level 7 now. I guess it was definately due to some strange pathfinding bug. No worries.