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[Telok]

More of a frustration than a suggestion. I just lost three miners in ten minutes to digging channels. Two were in "corners" and had a 50/50 chance of moving out of the channel, the last was at an "end" and would have survived if he'd done anything but move further in. All of them lasted between 5 an 12 moves in single and double width channels, and at all times they were right next to safe land.

What's more annoying is that all three were at the opposite ends from the water. Two were actually eight tiles away from where there channels were connected to the water. They just... stood there... untill the water got to them.

So a suggestion. When in water, head towards land. When in a channel, step out. Please.

[Fleeb]

Agreed. Pleasepleaseplease.

[Casey]

I had this happen, I just built a bridge next to the stranded miner, and presto, he climed out.

[Fleeb]

You got a bridge built in the 10 seconds before he drowned?

[Mechanoid]

Maybe miners should stand outside the channel to build it?  

[Toady One]

I can work with this a bit sometime.  There are some optimization issues for the dwarves that are a bit deeper in or in situations where there is no path to escape, but nothing insurmountable.

[Maximus]

It'd be enough if they simply moved to an adjacent square of "dry land", if one was available.  It is pretty odd seeing them wade into the river when the channel first floods.