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[Sasasing]

Hi 

I was trying to dig a way for channeling water to lower Z-levels (is this possible? i want to try with ramps) so i dug first a way from a big room where i stored food to a huge room for fill it with water and give my dwarf time to escape. Then another way to the brook that was upside. I ordered my dwarf to start making the channel while my mechanic installed a floodgate and a lever on the way connecting my store with the "water room".

But my dwarf suddenly started picking the Quartzite that was on that room (my region is FULL of quartzite and other stones, i have like 1000 stones and i don't have much space for other things  ) and my mechanic finishes the lever and the floodgate, so i connected them, but my dwarf starts sleeping there, without even digging the channel.

I give it a try, so i use the lever and low the floodgate. Maybe that was blocking my dwarf, but after removing both the floodgate and the lever, when my dwarf woke up, didn't move, just stayed there. I cancelled the channel and ordered another one, but he keept standing there. I cancelled it and ordered to dig the wall that was beside him, and that worked, i digged out of the room and arived at the storage, where he drunk. Then i ordered to dig in another place in that room and make a channel, and when he dug enough for starting to channel, he picked again the Quartzite that was near him, just like before, and did the same thing!

The thing was like this: 

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        #L##########     
        #X@        #
    ##### #######  #
    #          ##  #
    #          ##  #
    #          @   #
    #          #####
    #*######-###
    ***    #-#
    ***    ###


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# = Wall    L = Lever    X = Floodgate    - = channel    * = Channel that he had to dig    @ = Way he use to get out (digged after)    All the room was full of Quartzite             
amm i doing anything bad or is it a bug? It's my first fortress so i'm a bit noobie still (atleast i've survived 1 year  )

thanks again 

[Cryten]

You have come across a very common dwarf habit of channeling out his exit path, usually the best way to avoid this is to mine out a access ramp along the channel for the dwarves to retreat to. For example:
=================>==
....................................
_______________________
====================

Where = is wall > is stairs . is floor and _ is channel.

For larger channels its best to mine out above the channel first and do each line of the channel serperately.

[Sasasing]

okay thanks a lot