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[Kidinnu]

Back in the last version I really enjoyed the idea of building along cave rivers, but the floods ruined that idea. Looking forward to flooding rivers in this version, I found a seed off the wiki that reported a cave river (2967067655), spent two seasons digging a series of exploratory tunnels looking for it, and finally resorted to reveal.exe.

What was there was a short segment of water, with no cave around it, signs of erosion, apparent relation to the surrounding rock layers, or tributaries, that apparently came from nowhere: both ends disappeared into open space with mist.

This was crushingly disappointing. Is it typical of 0.27.169.33a underground rivers?

[Edit: 3614285250 is slightly better, but still not what I'd hope for: several segments of river at increasing levels of depth, ending in a sinkhole that falls off the map.

I suppose if I want a dwarf settlement based around underground waterways I ought to just undermine a waterfall and do all the digging myself; even after Friday's hoped-for release without uberswimming riverdwellers, I'll have to gear up a serious military before I can set up a riverside civilization. Meh.]

[ November 14, 2007: Message edited by: Kidinnu ]

[Flok Speargrabber]

Did you actually DIG into it?

Free water, snakemen's equipments, etc.

Try putting a dwarf into the water and see where he dies.

[THLawrence]

There are some very large cave rivers if you can find them. The most recent ones that I found had 2 or 3 distinct levels. On of them doubled back on it's self after dropping a level. As well you can find cave ponds which are full of water but don't go anywhere.