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[Corona688]

I figured I could build Ice walls underground, deconstruct them and forbid the ice, let it melt and poof, muddy.  It just became a weird and thoroughly useless "stack" of water rather than actual water.  No mud.  Everyone starved.

[Untelligent]

This is somewhat normal. Only ice "walls" melt into flowing water; if the ice is in the form of a rock, it'll melt in the same way that a rock melts (i.e. into a glob rather than a fluid).

[Corona688]

Do you mean 'normal' as in 'always does this' or 'normal' as in 'intentional'?  There shouldn't be more than one kind of water!

[Draco18s]

There's more than 1 kind of water.

The only way to make ice into water is to collapse unmined ice tiles into an underground cavern without breaking through to the sky.

[Corona688]

I know there's more than one kind of water which behave in completely different ways despite both supposedly being 'water'.  That's why its a bug.

[Untelligent]

No, it's intentional. Toady intended it to work like this, I think.

This seems like a bit of a workaround rather than a feature, though, and it's always possible this might change in future versions. But not for a while.

[Corona688]

A name change from 'water' to 'polywater' may be in order, then.  :p  Oh well.

[Sowelu]

It's possible to have a very large number of stones crammed into one square.  If one ice wall mines into one ice stone, you might expect that one ice wall turns into 7 water when it melts, and so should one ice stone.  But then what happens when you get 100 ice stone in one square then melt it?  Heck, even if each ice stone is just 1 water, that is very scary.