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[dwarfhoplite]

I want to make a fortress in taiga but I'm unsure how to get water. please help me

[Darvi]

Well ya, I've never done a fortress in a cold climate, but I've noticed that water that's inside doesn't freeze during winter. So you'll most likely find water in caves, even though that's a certain amount of Fun.

[slothen]

hope you have an aquifer.  failing that, a cave with water.

[BuGGaTon]

failing any of the above then you can drop ice a fair distance and it allegedly becomes water.

[MiniMacker]

1, Place floor above river.
2, ??
3, PROFIT WATER

[drseptapus]

1, Place floor above river.
2, ??
3, PROFIT WATER

Fairly confident that doesn't work. What does work would be digging a tunnel from that river underground. The river still freezes, but your little offshoot does not.

[Silophant]

1, Place floor above river.
2, ??
3, PROFIT WATER

That doesn't work. Once a tile's outdoors, a mere roof isn't enough to make it go back to inside.

[Darvi]

Then dig a tunnel underground, channel a connection to the... wait, no liquid water available. Damn.

[Azhral]

You'll need to get some Magma underneath the river to unfreeze it enough to get a trickle down a side tunnel. If you don't have any magma on/near the surface, your best bet will be the caverns.

[Illanair]

Who needs stinking water anyway. Real dwarfs make booze with grain and the sweat and spittle from the combined dwarf population!

What crazy thing will they suggest next - SOAP!? Hahahaha, what a joke.

(This post may contain traces of sarcasm and/or nuts - the part about not using water for making drinkable booze is however true)

[Tcei]

The ice dropping method requires multiple z-levels of ice in order to work. As the topmost lvl acts as a plug fooling the lower lvl(s) of ice into thinking its underground once dropped (which technicaly it is I guess) and melting into water. Its pretty much only possible on glaciers, as most other sorces of water/ice are only 1z deep. Your best bet will be to find a cavern.