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[NJW2000]

Gem output looks fairly rubbish. How about a safe fishing zone?

[falcn]

I already source all food and drinks from caravans, thanks to unlimited sand -> glass production.

So, it's ok to skip flooded cavern(s), there no good use for them? I thought maybe I'm missing something.

[Arx]

Cavern animals, wood cutting, and sometimes revealed veins, but draining it wil be a ton of work, so if you'v egot plenty of food and wood I wouldn't bother.

[NJW2000]

I only evern seem to get 1 log from 2 or even 4 z lvl high cavern trees. Is this normal?

[Albedo]

Cavern animals, wood cutting, and sometimes revealed veins, but draining it wil be a ton of work

Not so much work, would it? A quick tunnel off the map below the cavern lake, carve fortifications at the end to let the water out, dig stairs up to the bottom of the cavern water (miner should outrun the "flood"), and let time take it's course. Wider tunnel = faster.

Just make sure you have a hatch in place to lock down after the miner clears out, to keep the water pressure from pushing up where it's not wanted, AND/OR have carved diagonals to reduce the pressure to "level" w/ the diagonals.

[falcn]

I've opened a cavern that was rampaged by Forgotten beast for a couple of years. It's covered in blood and gore, and dwarves intend to clean it all.
Is there a way to tell them to not clean cavern except by using burrows or disabling cleaning for everyove?

[NJW2000]

Not entirely sure, but try th

• rders menu.

[falcn]

Not entirely sure, but try th

• rders menu.

First thing I did. Nothing about cleaning.

[DwarfOfTheLand]

Any easy way to get water out from where you are digging?

Like, say I want to dig down but there is water underneath the earth. Anything I could do?

[Arx]

Water will continue to flow on from the edges of the map indefinitely though, and I think their lake connects to the map edge on multiple sides, so draining the entire cavern would involve digging drains all the way around the area they want drained.

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Draindraindrain.


@DwarfOfTheLand
If it's an aquifer, consult the wiki page on piercing aquifers and pray to the deity of your choice. If it's just a puddle, screw pumps should work or using water source and pond zones to make your dwarves bail it out.

[Wimopy]

@Falcn: Things to try:
Set the area traffic to restricted.
Try forbidding the contaminants? Not sure if that works or what it does.
Seal off the area.
Let a small bit of water into that cavern area. It shoud clean away everything far more efficiently than any dwarf.

Or, if it's really bothering you, DFHack has a clean command (been a while since I used it, but I doubt it changed). You can choose specific tiles or the entire fort. Depends on if you consider it too much of a cheat or not.

[falcn]

I believe DF took care of it somehow(?), since I don't see any more "Clean" jobs for the cavern. Dwarves probably cleaned only tiles adjacent to ones that they dug out.

[Loci]

I've opened a cavern that was rampaged by Forgotten beast for a couple of years. It's covered in blood and gore, and dwarves intend to clean it all.
Is there a way to tell them to not clean cavern except by using burrows or disabling cleaning for everyove?

Dwarves only initiate the "clean" task when they are idle near a mess on the same z-level. If you disable the cleaning task on any dwarves that have a reason to be in the cavern, they won't try to clean it, and neither will your other dwarves since they won't be idle in the cavern.

[falcn]

Dwarves only initiate the "clean" task when they are idle near a mess on the same z-level. If you disable the cleaning task on any dwarves that have a reason to be in the cavern, they won't try to clean it, and neither will your other dwarves since they won't be idle in the cavern.

Thank you, that explains it.

I have another question.
I had an incident with magma mist while dumping trash into incinerator.
Now I have !!Urist Machauler's corpse!!

Should I provide some safety measures for this area, like water reservoir and buckets? Will dwarves extinguish fires, or filling the room with 4/7 water is my only option?

Also, should I worry about this? (result of cleaning cavern that FB inhabited for a while)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Now almost everyone has 60+ "horrified" emotions.

[Albedo]

Also, should I worry about this? (result of cleaning cavern that FB inhabited for a while)

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Now almost everyone has 60+ "horrified" emotions.

That ~alone~ is not what you should be looking at - look at their overall happiness. If they are still happy(ish), np.

If they are not happy, then, yes - you have to start projects to get them back in the party line. Misters, upgrading common areas like dining rooms to Legendary, designed workshops, bridges and wells, and/or zoos, statue gardens, personal furniture (esp bed) or foods, esp if they fit personal preferences - all these will add up to counter-act the effects.