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[varkarrus]

If you dig a channel on a brook, it turns blue, and is called open space. Also, nobody can walk on it anymore.

[MarineElite]

first off this isn't a bug
Channeling a brook basicly removes the top layer which is like a grate which dwarves can walk on and changes the above color to what the water color is because the grate tile which shows lighter blue is gone.

[Derakon]

To use more punctuation and detail:

Brooks are very shallow flows of water. Thus they can be walked over. The game simulates this by having a normal "deep" tile full of water with a "floor" above it that things can walk on. When you channel out the "floor", you simply reveal the water beneath it. However, that water is on a lower Z-level; there's nothing on the current Z-level. Hence, the game reports "open space" when you look at the tile.

[Aquillion]

Or, in other words:  You're making the brook deeper at that point.  That's just what a deeper brook looks like; all water in Dwarf Fortress that is deeper than a brook shows as "open space" from its edge, because the water is actually one level below that.

Although really, I wonder if that should be changed.  It would be more intuitive if it showed as "water surface".

[G-Flex]

I always interpreted it less as shallow water and more as deep water filled with rocks and junk.

Granted, the water volume is still smaller than a normal water tile given either interpretation.


Basically, the game doesn't currently have a good way to represent small streams you can walk through/over, so brooks are just tiny rivers with a floor above them.

[Nicpon]

Yeah, me too.

I think intuitive name would be "stepping stones"