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[exolyx]

I've been having trouble figuring this out, is it even possible to willingly jump into a river and swim to the other side? it gets frustrating. All I can come up with is get into a corner near water, wait for companions to surround you, then attack one sending them all into an attack fury which will knock you into the water, but then there's the problem of trying to get back into a town where everyone hates you and you actually want to do stuff.

Back to the original question, can you willingly go into water, if so, how?

[Monk321654]

Stand next to water.
Hold either Alt [Direction] or Shift [Direction] Where [Direction] is direction of river.
Choose Riverbed (Or whatever) [Direction], Below.
Do NOT choose Open Space [Direction].

[JimDale]

Also, some companions can't swim. They'll just flounder for a while and drown.
Although, you could repeatedly switch tiles with them, getting them closer to the other shore. Worked last time I tried.

[Loud Whispers]

Also, some companions can't swim. They'll just flounder for a while and drown.
Although, you could repeatedly switch tiles with them, getting them closer to the other shore. Worked last time I tried.

Dabbling swimmers can pretty much flounder their way to the other side of small rivers regardless, though you'd might want to take this into moderation... Swimming against the ocean tide is a good way to train group swimming

[NW_Kohaku]

Companions can learn to swim if you train them long enough. 

Considering their total expedibility, however, they are probably not worth the effort, however.

[Kamamura]

Forget the Alt- cheat, you cannot really swim in this game, which is good and shows how realistic the game is. The problem, you see, lies in the fact that upon trying to approach the water, you must first cross half of the distance. Once you do that, you still have the other half remaining, and this new half consists of two yet smaller sub-halves, and both of them too, and so on, so on, and with each half overcame new and new appear like heads of a hydra. Therefore, time slows down, DF gums up with all the infinity-approaching number of super-precise iterations... and you will never make it. A guy called Zenon would explain better than I can.

It's a bit like falling into a black hole. You should try it sometimes.

[NW_Kohaku]

Forget the Alt- cheat, you cannot really swim in this game, which is good and shows how realistic the game is. The problem, you see, lies in the fact that upon trying to approach the water, you must first cross half of the distance. Once you do that, you still have the other half remaining, and this new half consists of two yet smaller sub-halves, and both of them too, and so on, so on, and with each half overcame new and new appear like heads of a hydra. Therefore, time slows down, DF gums up with all the infinity-approaching number of super-precise iterations... and you will never make it. A guy called Zenon would explain better than I can.

It's a bit like falling into a black hole. You should try it sometimes.

Congratulations, you have just proved that things do not change over time, and the only assumption you had to make while doing it is that time would have to not exist for this to make any sense. 

This is truly a profound concept you have proven, and I'm sure we should make it a part of the philosophic underpinnings of all of Western Civilization for centuries to the point where it ruins basically all scientific thought and progress for two thousand years!

[KrEstoF]

Forget the Alt- cheat, you cannot really swim in this game, which is good and shows how realistic the game is. The problem, you see, lies in the fact that upon trying to approach the water, you must first cross half of the distance. Once you do that, you still have the other half remaining, and this new half consists of two yet smaller sub-halves, and both of them too, and so on, so on, and with each half overcame new and new appear like heads of a hydra. Therefore, time slows down, DF gums up with all the infinity-approaching number of super-precise iterations... and you will never make it. A guy called Zenon would explain better than I can.

It's a bit like falling into a black hole. You should try it sometimes.

Congratulations, you have just proved that things do not change over time, and the only assumption you had to make while doing it is that time would have to not exist for this to make any sense. 

This is truly a profound concept you have proven, and I'm sure we should make it a part of the philosophic underpinnings of all of Western Civilization for centuries to the point where it ruins basically all scientific thought and progress for two thousand years!

Or just aim to swim for twice the distance of the river.   

[Kamamura]

This is truly a profound concept you have proven, and I'm sure we should make it a part of the philosophic underpinnings of all of Western Civilization for centuries to the point where it ruins basically all scientific thought and progress for two thousand years!

It's already a part of the philosophic underpinnings of the Western Civilization, it's called "The dichotomy paradox" (btw. that "Homer" guy the article refers to did not live in Springfield) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes
It's worthwhile to refresh what those underpinnings really are from time to time, eh?

Or just aim to swim for twice the distance of the river.

... that's... that's... preposterous cheating!!!

[Tharwen]

This is truly a profound concept you have proven, and I'm sure we should make it a part of the philosophic underpinnings of all of Western Civilization for centuries to the point where it ruins basically all scientific thought and progress for two thousand years!

It's already a part of the philosophic underpinnings of the Western Civilization, it's called "The dichotomy paradox" (btw. that "Homer" guy the article refers to did not live in Springfield) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeno%27s_paradoxes
It's worthwhile to refresh what those underpinnings really are from time to time, eh?

*Psst*

I think he knows that...