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[JonasIV]

Recently, I embarked on a desert, which had a waterfall "Nice". Yet I underestimated that waterfall, it managed to make my dwarves suicide. How? Well the good old fashioned way, falling down the waterfall for no reason. First it was my cats, trying to pass the waterfall. Then it was the dwarves trying to get the cats back home, which again, was on the other side of the waterfall. Result? 2 brutally injured cats and 2 dead dwarves . I got very very angry at the waterfall then . I need solutions, whats the best way to destroy a waterfall and did any of you have this kind of situation?

[i2amroy]

The best way is to order a bridge built right at the top of the waterfall that covers the last 3-5 tiles of river before the drop (or walls along the sides if you don't want people to be able to cross). The reason they die is because they notice that the water level is low along the edge of the waterfall, try to walk through it, and then get carried off the edge by the current.

[OcelotTango]

Another possible fix is to make a close by passage over the water( it dosent need to be over the edge), and then set a high traffic restriction on the edge of the waterfall.

[JonasIV]

Ah, thank you, now I shall have my revenge on the waterfall by building bridges on it! HAHA!

[swordsmith04]

A traffic restriction of high would make the dwarves more likely to cross through the area, not less. Use 'restricted' for that. You probably want to jack up the traffic cost of restricted as well. And mark your intended path as high, just to be safe.

[Oaktree]

A traffic restriction of high would make the dwarves more likely to cross through the area, not less. Use 'restricted' for that. You probably want to jack up the traffic cost of restricted as well. And mark your intended path as high, just to be safe.

The problem is that if it's the only route across the river and they want to go there they will go that way regardless of the traffic cost.

[Stoup]

Could you not simply floor over the ramps nearest the waterfall, so that the dwarves won't have access to the ramps with the low water that they keep getting pushed off of?

[i2amroy]

Could you not simply floor over the ramps nearest the waterfall, so that the dwarves won't have access to the ramps with the low water that they keep getting pushed off of?

Yes, a bridge just tends to work out easier since it can be put up quicker and with less risk of dwarven lives (you could of course set up two individual bridges along the edges that didn't actually connect if you didn't want people crossing).

[CapnUrist]

Sure, you can avoid the waterfall, but why not harness it and put it to work for you instead? I've used waterfalls as traps, doors, power sources, even a shower source. All needlessly complicated, of course. If you could route it over a volcano or open magma vent, I think a goblin sauna could be possible as well. Don't waste resources - weaponize them!

[Dwarf73]

Ah, thank you, now I shall have my revenge on the waterfall by building bridges on it! HAHA!

You know, water, thats life of waterfall, no water, no waterfall, so kill it with taking water away from it, by channeling it to your fort, prefer noble quarters, nobles like water, trust urist mccunningplan