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[TheSpaceMan]

Hade a undergound water reservoir connected to a above ground lake connected to a channel. When i started my water fall (connected to the reservoir with the channel to he lake blocked) all my dwarves desided to swim trough the passage way to the lake climb up and gather there without apperently the possibility to get back. I also hade five kittens and two dwarves who decided to play at the edge of the water fall.

Is this common?
I thought it was quite fun to see.

[Awayfarer]

I recently dug out an indoor pool in my fort and set not only the shore but the entire area as a meeting zone.
Surprise surprise, the dwarves were actually using it for swimming. Most of my dwarves are dabbling swimmers now. I had sort of expected the pool to become just a nice conversation piece, but this works. 

[TheSpaceMan]

well atleast it gives you a reason to install bars at the edge of the water fall. I can imagine the faces of the dwarves in the dinning room a few levels down when dwarves and cats are being flushed by.

Ps does deeper water allow you to jump from higher areas and still survive?

[Calenth]

That's odd. I tried making a 4/7 depth pond across my entranceway once to get everyone to learn swimming and the dwarves WOULD NOT go into it, even when they had no jobs and all the food was on the other side.

[TheSpaceMan]

Yeah like i  said they couldn't find their way back...

[Mohreb el Yasim]

I recently dug out an indoor pool in my fort and set not only the shore but the entire area as a meeting zone.
Surprise surprise, the dwarves were actually using it for swimming. Most of my dwarves are dabbling swimmers now. I had sort of expected the pool to become just a nice conversation piece, but this works. 

how did you do that? has it ramps or something?
i would be happy to instal some thing like this in one future fort ...

[TheSpaceMan]

probably got ramps.
The disscussion of a dwarven bathhouse have existed for a while.
But i must say that the last time i tried to create one i drowned half the fort but i has been done with good success by other players.

[Asehujiko]

For some reason traders prefer to enter from the riverbed and swim the whole way to the entrace of my fort, where they ride up the exit ramps and enter the front gate as normal. It takes them quite a while because for the majority of the ride they are moving against the current. Can wagons travel over grates? I think that might be the problem because i installed several of them on my road as fort of my outer defensive perimeter.

[Janus]

Can wagons travel over grates? I think that might be the problem because i installed several of them on my road as fort of my outer defensive perimeter.

You can always check using shift+D to show wagon accessibility; if the grates don't allow wagons over them, I would expect it to show as such in that display.