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[Haytrid]

I did a new embark and was just digging down to find my first rock layer still in the first year when I found, on about 6 z-levels down from embark, a massive cavern complex.  Not really feeling like dealing with them I just diverted a river into them.  The river just kept on flowing for about 45 minutes, the cavern never filled up.  The question is, is this a viable way to drown nasty cavern beasties?  Unfortunately I never got the chance to explore later and find out because by the third year a necromancer infiltrated my fortress and raised some kind of flesh beast which annihilated my entire fortress in no time, this was after two years of fending off flying fire and ice skulls, bad embark point I suppose.

[Flying Dice]

No. If there is any contact at all with the map edges, water will flow off faster than you can fill it.

[kaijyuu]

Which is exactly why you wall it up first.


At which point you won't get any new cavern beasties, either, so filling it with water is redundant.

[evilDagmar]

...nor are you likely to ever be going into that cavern yourself unless you first a) create controllable floodgates at the entry and exit points, b) risk creating a massive cave in which exposes some new open map edges, or c) somehow manage to breed dwarves with gills.

Good luck with that last one.

[Haytrid]

We'll, dwarves already love mist so maybe gills are the next logical stage of evolution!  Sounds like an opportunity for some Darwinist **SCIENCE**.

...nor are you likely to ever be going into that cavern yourself unless you first a) create controllable floodgates at the entry and exit points, b) risk creating a massive cave in which exposes some new open map edges, or c) somehow manage to breed dwarves with gills.

Good luck with that last one.

[Loud Whispers]

Dwarf Jabberers.

No.

Just hell naw.

There are only so many crimes against nature one can handle.