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[Brdn666]

Is it possible to damn a brook? I want to dig out a brook to make a stream (in my eye), but I want to dam it too.

[Untelligent]

If you're in a temperate or colder biome, than it's easy; wait for the brook to freeze over, dig out the ice, build walls in the brook, wait for spring.

It's harder if you're in a warmer climate. You have to pump out a section of water until it's totally dry (I'll leave the problem of what to do with the water you're pumping out to you; the best way to get rid of it is to dump it in an aquifer, but in absence of one, you can make an aqueduct to the edge of the map. Just don't pump it back into the brook), then go down and put the walls in.

Either way, be sure to make the exit stairs on both sides of the dam so your masons don't wall themselves in.

[Sukasa]

Damn a brook?  Definitely a pentagon, there.

Another way to do this is to mine out -around- the brook tiles, like this:

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anyways, as you do this, you'll begin to collapse the brook tiles into the brook, causing the river to drain through those tiles into the void.  It's literally brought a brook of mine to 1/7 water and to 0/7 water in parts.

[RavingManiac]

Damn a brook?  Definitely a pentagon, there.

Another way to do this is to mine out -around- the brook tiles, like this:

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+.+.+
.+.+.
anyways, as you do this, you'll begin to collapse the brook tiles into the brook, causing the river to drain through those tiles into the void.  It's literally brought a brook of mine to 1/7 water and to 0/7 water in parts.

What happens when a dwarf falls in?

[Sukasa]

Dwarves can walk across these tiles just fine.  I blame innate Dwarven Sorcery, myself.