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[twilightdusk]

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I first noticed this camel during the summer, he had somehow fallen into the river higher up on this map (two rivers, one higher than the other, creates a natural waterfall I've built my meeting area around). It fought the current for a while before finally falling down. I figured that was the end of it, but it's winter now and he's still alive and kicking down there, despite broken legs and blood having splattered down onto the chalk walls down there.

[Assassinfox]

Is the river going to freeze?  Is there a way to dig some ramps and let him out?  That camel deserves to be drafted and trained into a war camel.  He's a trooper!

[ElthMysterius]

Make sure your dwarves drink upstream from the camel. As undwarfy as it sounds, they don't like to drink blood.

[Encased in burning magma]

Cheap! Quality! I sell you sea camels!

[twilightdusk]

Their water source is the higher up river, about 7 z-levels higher up in fact. This is so far down I've been dumping trash down into it (hence the pile of remains). I'm unsure if it will freeze or not, but if it will, I probably don't have enough time to dig a path down for him.

[twilightdusk]

looks like that camel may have company soon...

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[Johnny Madhouse]

Camels, like most animals, have the [SWIM_INNATE] tag. If you want to kill it with ease, giving it the dwarven tag for having to learn how to swim might work.

There's also digging a reservoir chamber below the river and tapping into the water from below. The sudden pressure will pull the camel in and you can then use floodgates to hopefully pull the camel to a place you can drain.

[twilightdusk]

It died, unfortunately  Not before fighting with and killing a carp though