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[schrocko88]

Okay, so is it possible to channel out a room underground, then have my dwarves fill it useing buckets?

[Mitchewawa]

Yep. Use the Pond designation and your dwarfs will use buckets to carry water from a water source.

[Broseph Stalin]

You have to have a room above the room you want to fill. Dig a hole in the floor of the top room so you can look down into the bottom room, then use i to designate the channeled square as a pit then use P->f to designate it as a pond. Your dwarves will automatically pour water into the hole until it's completely filled with water.

[schrocko88]

Thanks guys, I got it.

[Duuvian]

If it's a big room you'll probably want a few holes with Ponds designated above and some spare buckets. Water evaporates when it's below a certain depth and with a big room it tends to spread to a depth of 1 and evaporate pretty quickly.

[rhesusmacabre]

You can make multiple pond zones over the same hole also.

[I am Leo]

You'll want multiple ponds, as the others have said, because each one will only have one dwarf assinged to fill it at a time.

[Sunkwell]

Surely a single screw pump will out do any number of buckets, it can even be powered by a dwarf for cheap setup, like so:

(side view)
    %%
~~##            #
###########
~    water
%% pump from left to right
#    solid ground