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[decius]

If I understand the aquafer issues correctly, the aquafer is acting as though the tiles of the waterfall are mined out? If so, building stairs down in the middle of the canyon and walls next to the all the offending aquafer tiles would stop the flow.
My preferred method would be to use as many grates as needed to provide places to walk, and just enough floors to support the grates.

Another possible way would be to mine out the entire aquafer.

[CapnUrist]

So I've managed to get the passage dug and smoothed, mostly. All's left is two tiles wide worth of wet stone. 270 sandstone grates and 236 sandstone floors will make it up when done. The river claimed 38 dwarves during the building; a goblin invasion a few moments ago killed 15 dwarves before being sent off, mostly thanks to the 64 war dogs that were milling about, only 7 of which survived.

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[TurkeyXIII]

Nice.

But I think your dwarves are unhappy 

[CapnUrist]

Yeah, tantrum spiral forced me to abandon and return with new dwarves. At least now there isn't dog blood and pus all over the passage.

[decius]

How did the river claim 38? Anything that building walls along the sides of the crossing wouldn't stop?

[CapnUrist]

Dwarves not making it to the stairwell that I dug to the river bottom before they drowned. They'd get washed into holes in the floor I was building with grates and the two strips of constructed flooring, washed in by the water pouring out of the ceiling and walls. The farther in I got, the longer the trek to the stairs, and the less likely they'd survive. I could probably have avoided the deaths by building a swimming pool first, but eh. Armok demands blood.

[CinnibarMan]

Very dwarfy. Good job.

[decius]

Dwarves not making it to the stairwell that I dug to the river bottom before they drowned. They'd get washed into holes in the floor I was building with grates and the two strips of constructed flooring, washed in by the water pouring out of the ceiling and walls. The farther in I got, the longer the trek to the stairs, and the less likely they'd survive. I could probably have avoided the deaths by building a swimming pool first, but eh. Armok demands blood.

Oh. Did you think to leave a few spaces open with up-ramps so they can get back up? I'd like to replicate the epicness, but I don't like high bodycounts. I hadn't considered that building under an aquafer would leave you open to water from above as well as from the sides; Considering that, I would have made the corridor as tall as needed to carve/smooth away the aquifer above it. Unless... do you get crazy happy thoughts for walking down that corridor? Or at least get the blood washed off?