Hey, guys. I'm a new player and been addicted to it since I started playing. Anyway, been learning the ropes, getting the basics, et cetera, and definitely takes time to learn things. Anyway, I have this one fort going that is adjacent to a river that splits two ways (so there is kind of a mini-lake that is connected by three legs). This "mini-lake" sits in a pit in a hill with one of the legs creating a 1 z-level waterfall. I thought that was cool, and looked like plenty of fishing to be had, so I thought nothing of it at first. So after a bit, I noticed a few dwarves go missing. Had no idea how or why. Well, found out these dumb dwarves would decide to happily jump into the river where this waterfall spot is and drown because they have no way to get out. Recently, I had a large migration wave, and well, dwarf after dwarf kept killing themselves in the same fashion, realizing it was all the fisher/hunter dudes mainly getting killed. So I thought I could put down a bridge and the dwarves would use the bridge instead. Nope, the dwarves grabbing the stones to make the bridge kept falling into the same spot because they wanted to build the bridge from the wrong damn side. After a long sigh, I cancelled that and thought building a floor across would do nicely. Nope. Died in the same stupid fashion. So.... about almost ten dead dwarves later, I'm frustrated because of how stupid the dwarves are. I understand the difficulty of the game, but this goes beyond difficult; it makes no logical sense for them to kill themselves so stupidly. Edit: Oh yeah, just found out they were also killing themselves trying to recover items dropped by said dead dwarves. Sigh... just gets better and better (I forbid those items, after a couple more went to their watery graves).
Now, I disabled all surface-side professions because of this and I don't know how to solve this issue. Only options I can think of is ignore those two professions altogether, or build the floor in smaller chunks instead of all the way across to see if the dwarves don't do the same dumb thing. So, uh, advice anybody? Thanks.