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[Nobak]

Well... A giant just showed up at my fort. Within less than a day, the river thawed and he drowned. The end.

[escondida]

The scary part is that until you dam the river (y'know, so you can control its flow at will) that corpse will be there, littering your map, unable to be removed, forever mocking you.

[vanatteveldt]

Note that in a freezing biome damming a river is really easy, and something I regularly do in the first winter. Just channel a two-wide path in the ice as close to the source (map edge) as possible, build a 1x4 bridge raising towards the map edge, build a lever, connect to bridge, pull. In spring the whole river will be dry and you can do any engineering project you fancy.

[Nobak]

I hadn't thought about damming the river (wasn't sure if messing with the river might break the river tiles), but it should be noted that I can still recover the corpse without that by digging into the ice next time the river freezes.

Damming sounds more fun, though.

[Nobak]

Just a quick update. After abandoning, I found out in legends mode that two other corpses that had mysteriously appeared in the river were werebeasts that drowned before they could be discovered.

This river is just deadly. It's a wonder I only lost one baby dwarf in it.

[Dunamisdeos]

Just a quick update. After abandoning, I found out in legends mode that two other corpses that had mysteriously appeared in the river were werebeasts that drowned before they could be discovered.

This river is just deadly. It's a wonder I only lost one baby dwarf in it.

What you have there is a friendly river spirit protecting your dwarves. I recommend filling the river with magma. River spirits can't be trusted, unless they are booze.