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[krisslanza]

Whats a good way to deal with 'em? They always annoy me doing an aboveground settlement, since they're in pretty much every biome except a few... I thought of draining them once, and that resulted in some dorfs just walking into the new hole despite it being a restricted area. Plus, it may fix the water issue, but it doesn't make it that much easier to make anything on it...

Or should I just suck it up? :p

[MAurelius]

I usually build around them. I like having little lakes inside my walls, but you can always build floors and walls over them. That won't help you on z level -1 but if you're all aboveground you won't even know it's there.

[TSTwizby]

Sucking it up might be the best option. In fact, the best idea is probably to set up a big pump/aqueduct system which sucks the water out of the pools and into a massive cistern which sits over the entrance to your fortress, below which you have dug a small trench which feeds into a pit filled with spikes/magma/dragons/nothing, for about 15 z-levels. Hook up some pressure plates to make the pumps only turn when there's water in the pool, or else you're just pumping air 9/10ths of the year. Put a bridge or hatch or something in the bottom of the cistern, link a pressure plate on the way to your entrance to it, and when a siege comes, retreat inside and wait for the invaders to be swept away. Then while you wait for more invaders, your cistern refills. Of course, you'd need a pretty big cistern to make sure it doesn't fill up and stop the pools from emptying. Or you could have , above the first level but before the level the water flows in at, a drain which, when water flows out of it, turns into a waterfall that falls through your dining hall and exits through the caverns. Or something.

Of course, you can always just drain them then floor over the bottom, or over the top if you don't like leaving holes around. It really depends on what your priorities are.

[Loud Whispers]

Just build floors over em

[Oaktree]

Just build floors over em

I consider them "decoration" if inside my walls.  Floor around them with stone, ramp a few sections in case someone falls in.  And then allow it to be used for bathing and swimming.  Sort of a little park.  With a statue of an elf being killed by a dragon in the middle.

[Lord_Phoenix]

I dig them out a bit, wall em up, floor em off, and build a little building over them and use them as a basement/small storage area.

[Loud Whispers]

Just build floors over em

I consider them "decoration" if inside my walls.  Floor around them with stone, ramp a few sections in case someone falls in.  And then allow it to be used for bathing and swimming.  Sort of a little park.  With a statue of an elf being killed by a dragon in the middle.

Ruins the aesthetics for above ground forts though, plus it wouldn't be the first time something swims through the other side underneath the walls....

[krenshala]

If you are in a relatively wet area, you could dig tunnels between all of the pools, making one large system of water capture, then have a pump stack on one side of the gate, a cistern over the gate (with floor hatches in the bottom, of course) and an overflow outlet on the other side of the gate that leads to the far end of the pool system.  Once the cistern fills, you have your water trap (The Flusher^TM ) and you have flowing water at all times, or at least once the pools fill up sufficiently after the cistern is full.  That flowing water can run multiple water wheels that can provide power for the pump stack plus anything else you might need it for.

[Aspgren]

Dig out a basement where the pool is.

 Build a house on top of it.