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[HraTaika]

Well met, fellow dwarven engineers!

I'm trying to build my first drowning chamber and I was wondering what sort of layout/mechanisms you guys prefer, as to shamelessly copy and paste them into my own fort ;)c


On the topic of drowning chambers:
http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Drowning_chamber

[magicwalker]

The basic drowning chamber would have a way for "things" to get in and kept in and a way for water to get in. If you want it to be reusable/want to claim items or corpses, then you want a way to drain it. If you want to be able to trap building destroyers, then you can't use doors- instead use bridges (and you might have to thing about your water ingress/egress systems or they might be able to destroy your floodgates). Infinite water sources make it easier, but you could probably get by with finite water and pumping the water from the drowning chamber back to a cistern for reuse- though you will lose *some* water to evaporation regardless.