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[Saint]

Well, you see I always wanted to create a fully functioning underwater fortress, but not in the ground and in the ocean, well I tried many different ways, none worked, even creating aquatic dwarfs, if anyone could help me a bit and explain a way to get dwarfs to work underwater I tried making them able to breathe underwater and above water, with the amphibian tag and having them able to swim from birth but they refuse to do any tasks in the water.

[3]

Yeah, this sort of thing doesn't work yet.

[Saint]

Oh ok, thanks.
Damn, gotta wait for the next version before I can hopefully create dwarf rapture.

[Deon]

Next version has nothing to do with underwater/air pathfinding. Sadly.

[Taritus]

It's a problem with how pathfinding works for members of your civilization.  I assume it'll get fixed whenever the issues with flying civilization members get fixed.

[Deon]

Actually, it's almost never.

Far future goals (which come after the 4-year goals) have this:

Boats of some kind might go in early to make different regions more accessible, but you won't be able to be a pirate or an undersea civ for quite a while.

So, you may have boats in possible 4-∞ years and only after that there MAY be any chance of this. So it's possible that never.

Maybe Toady will change his plans, but we can't know.

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

would have been cool to have your own antlatis lol, would open up the possiblity of a ocean race.. Give those Merpeople a reason to exsist *cough* not that they don't pull their weight anyways, I've tryed embarking near an ocean I've just never got the hang of it

[Saint]

I found an easy way to do this sort of, embark somewhere cold in a lake, when the water freezes you have to build really fast and secure hallways and stuff in the ice, if you don't all your work is water and you have to wait for it to freeze again.
The only other way is to create your own lake on a map with walls and canyons or something.
It's still a pain though because I have a whole flooded fort with survivors and artifacts in it on about 5/6 levels of my fort and I really wish I could save them.
Darn you dwarf fortress and your unable to be pathed waters, these dwarfs can swim but arn't smart enough to use their swimming abilitys in ways that would be helpfull at all.