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[ludsoe]

Hey guys Ive got a rather troublesome issue at hand, while one of my recruits was fighting a badger bear they fell off a bridge and kept fighting in a 2 level deep river flowing at 7/7. After killing the badger bear who's blood pollutes my water supply now my recruit drowned trying to escape the current into my irrigation pipes. He drowned a brick away from the floodgate behind a ramp and now hes body is stuck. Ive tried opening the floodgates to suck in the dead body but that only got badger blood, which again pollutes my water supply. Right now I'm going to divert the water into a large area that will redirect the the river for a few seconds, or at-lease I hope it does.

Is this a good idea? How can i get the body so i can bury it and not worry about a ghost haunting my fort? Cause if it does it will mean lots of fun!!!!!! 

[Jelle]

Pump away the water near the body. It should get the waterlevel low enough to retrieve the body.

[Carrion]

The only way I can see retrieving it is by damming or diverting the river.  If it is small enough, you could build a systems of pumps to suck the water out around the corpse.  Here are some methods of damming the river, though all of them are quite an undertaking.

[ludsoe]

The issue is there is no space for a pump, the body is just on the other side of a wall keeping my farm from being flooded. Near the floodgate that controls irrigation.

Let me paint a crude picture.
7 = We all know this is a 7/7 water
B = Body
# = wall
F = floodgate
E = empty

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(edit: oops tab doesn't work )

[Carrion]

You can build a pump there:

+ = constructed floor
%% = pump


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777B%+77
#F#####

You just need some manner of walls and floors to carry the water away and that is hard to depict like this.  Plus it depends on the surroundings.  If the farm is big enough, you could just pump it in there, but that is probably not the case.

[Deon]

Or you could leave the body there. A taste of a dead body adds a nice flavor to the well water for your dwarves.