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[David Dark]

ok so I just embarked on some site and noticed that theres snow everywhere.
Since it's my first DF since a looong time (been playing adventure mode past few months) and I don't really know how to get water now my lil dwarfs started running around, licking ice from the frozen river and yelling that they are doomed.

So any possible way to get water around here? seems like its winter 24/365

[TheSpaceMan]

if you find a aquifier under ground you are ok.
Else you are DOOMED, DOOMED I tell you.

I don't know if the "water" (ice) rocks you get from mining the river will unfreeze under ground. Then you could just add a dumping place for those maybe, i do not know how else.

[Nilus]

If you collapse Ice several levels it should thaw.
Also, keep the water for farm irrigation and drinks for the wounded only to conserve it.
Or if you have magma, run magma under Ice to make the ground warm.
Or use tile edit to make your own water.

[ShunterAlhena]

BOOZE. Dwarven brewers and engineers have long held the knowledge of making booze out of plants without the use of water. Or maybe plump helmets have so high water content that they can use the stuff.

In any case, set up a farm plot and a brewery ASAP.

[Doppel]

If you have magma then you can revert some under the ice to melt it.
Maybe an other "solution" to creating water (completely untested though) is making stuff out of ice deeply underground, i noticed that after creating a workshop out of an ice boulder it melted afterwards leaving a sort of water pool (puddle?) on the ground (although i don't know this water can be used for anything other then muddying a floor), so maybe if you are able to "built" something (have no idea what) out of ice over a deep channel, and it melts afterwards, the channel gets filled with water.
(someone should test this)

[David Dark]

well whatever, I left those dwarf to their horrible doom and got another fortress.

But thx for replies, maybe when I get more experienced I will try a fortress in some freezing cold climate 

[Axe27]

BOOZE. Dwarven brewers and engineers have long held the knowledge of making booze out of plants without the use of water. Or maybe plump helmets have so high water content that they can use the stuff.

In any case, set up a farm plot and a brewery ASAP.

Problem, Dwarves enjoy being stonecold sober when suffering from broken arms.

No Pain, No gain, I guess.