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[Tamren]

1. For starters, can we add ice to stone stockpiles please? No reason why not to. On maps where ice is not possible like deserts it can be left out of the list.

2. Since ice is for all intents and purposes water it can be gathered in a solid form and melted in a kitchen (or possibly any forge) and stored as pure water in a barrel. Speaking of which players should also be able to store water in barrels instead of relying on messy ponds.

3. Catapult ammo which always explodes into a cone of shards on a hard impact. Ice shrapnel and boulders will only hurt "soft" targets, hard targets like iron men will get knocked about and such but will suffer little harm.

4. Ice-tipped practice bolts. Can only be made and used outside in the cold but the shafts can be gathered, given new tips and reused. This would require some sort of bolt re-stacking.

5. Ice blocks for smooth ice construction, alternatly allow engravers to smooth anything made of ice post construction.

6. An ice-house for preservation of corpses, skins and fat from butchered animals and stuff awaiting butchering.

7. Sinking heated metal or stone rods/pipes into brooks, rivers and the like to prevent them from freezing.

[ December 15, 2007: Message edited by: Tamren ]

[Reasonableman]

Your #2 reminds me of an idea I had: a shadoof. It could be used sorta like a well and a screw pump combined, where you put it next to a river or brook to pull up water for dwarves to drink directly or put in barrels on its job assignment menu. I think just one wood and one bucket would be enough to put one together, therefore making it much simpler than a well and requiring no stone (no mechanisms.)

[Dvalin]

Yeah on the ice house idea. One of my dwarves got into a tussle with some ice wolves on the surface of a glacier, and  bit it -- I was sort of disappointed when he rotted. I loved the vision of the snow-covered dwarf's corpse remaining, untouched, undiscovered, in those frozen wastes. Bloats that really stress the desolation and harshness of glacial or desert fortresses would be awesome.  

[DDouble]

I wish that warm walls, next to magma, would melt water on the other side, or heat it up enough not to freeze. I imagine a system of water heating tubes wrapping around a magma vent, and snaking through the fortress. Until someone punctures the wall, of course.