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[chmilz]

Notice the chasm with a waterfall at the top. Dwarves like the mist and I've had 5 or 6 fall to their deaths. I've turned off hunting on all dwarves, and set zones for fishing and water gathering. I still can't stop them from hurtling to the bottom and exploding into pieces (often taking good equipment and very necessary skills with them).

I need to stop this. I'm almost resigned to building a wall so they can't get to the mouth by the mist.

Any help would be appreciated.

[Girlinhat]

Bridges.

[SkyRender]

Alternatively, wall the area off so they can't reach the mist.

[Girlinhat]

Although I would like to say that they're going this way because the water at the point of the falls is shallow, it's 3/7 or lower, and thus "I can walk there".  Traffic restrictions will keep dwarves away, but caravans will still go that route unless you deny physical access.

[chmilz]

I'll read up on restricted traffic and build some bridges, see how that goes. I'm really missing the food variety provided by hunters.

[Urist Da Vinci]

Restricted traffic designations won't prevent them from going there if they have no options, but will make it unlikely that they'd go there if they could take a different route instead. You still need to make a bridge.

My current fort has a similar waterfall. Despite putting a bridge there for dwarf use, visitors often go over. I've lost a dwarven liason, several goblins, a few unicorns, and other wildlife to that waterfall. I also toss goblin prisoners into it after stripping all their gear. 20 Z-levels of fun.

[Loud Whispers]

You could completely wall over the river with bridges. STINKY BRIDGES

[KodKod]

Don't completely block it off, that'd be looking a gift horse in the mouth. Instead prevent access to it by normal means using a walled off enclosure, and drop children in from a level above.

Let them enjoy the soothing waterfall as it gently whisks them off their feet and carries their tiny body along to shatter on the rocks below.

[chmilz]

How do I do that? Wall it off, put some floors a z-level up with a hole in the middle to the shallow water below, and some stairs from the exterior? How do I drop things in?

[KodKod]

How do I do that? Wall it off, put some floors a z-level up with a hole in the middle to the shallow water below, and some stairs from the exterior? How do I drop things in?

Using burrows and a retractable bridge.

[zach123b]

i say build a dam by draining the river under ground then build a raising bridge in the river bed or a few flood gate, maybe have some grates and a hole in the river to catch stuff

don't forget to use a flood gate or a raising bridge to stop the water from draining all the time

[chmilz]

My fortress is built close by, I can dig to it underground and install the grates there. That way I can access the catch without having my dwarves go outside.

[FoiledFencer]

Fortifications would allow the mist to pass through, right? No risk of falling but still happy thoughts.

[Loud Whispers]

Don't completely block it off

What are retractable bridges and levers for?

[Naryar]

Wall it off.