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[Rowanas]

I'm planning to mod a creature so hot that anything in the same world tile will instantly melt. I'll go round melting everything on the planet, and then embark. If things can vapourise, they will. Otherwise my dwarves will just embark onto a barren plane.

[SimRobert2001]

You can still, as I mentioned, find a way to get the magma to the river, then dump some magma into it. It will then form obsidian which will block off the water(Should you use it in your drain, which will make the hole fill up and eventually have the water continue through the normal river), or make a dam to re-route the water(If poured into the river itself, make sure the water has somewhere to go).

It's easier then it sounds, any floor/wall holds back magma, even wooden ones, so you can just make an aquaduct(Magmaduct?) to the river, around your fort.(Or through it, if you feel like it)

After that, you can place floodgates behind the obsidian, and channel away the obsidian to have a working line of floodgates as what I think you originally hoped to achieve.

This is dwarf fortress, there is no way to permanently screw up a map, everything can be fixed when given enough time/willpower/dwarves.

ah, yes, that is true. thanks for the reminder.