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[d3c0y2]

Well a pumping accident resulted in my well room getting filled with water, and during the confusion someone dropped a baby into a well, now its dead and I'm at a lose at to how to get it out. the well is connected to a lake that  covers half the map(I channeled out an enclave with a 1 square wide entrance) is there any way to fish it out, or am I going to have to attempt to  Pump the water out and bury it?

[Lord Tenacious]

Use the baby as carp bait.

[Paul]

You'd have to pump the water out to get it out.

Or you could just let it stay in there to rot and flavor your well. Mmm, rotten dwarf flavored water.

[d3c0y2]

I Pumped the water out using two spare pumps I had, grabbed the babies, dismantled the pumps and rebuilt the floor.

luckily because I carve fortifications into the one wide entrance, to stop carp getting in I had a ramp that I'd just floored over, so unflooring to spaces for the pumps, and the ramp was a 5minute job.

I wish i'd buried the baby, but as I wanted the dwarves to get it out fast I'd marked it for dumped.

Now It's been buried ala magma.

[CrazyEyes]

At least you won't get any of the pesky unhappiness associated with a loved one being left out to rot.

[Kagus]

Limul Dudledardle has been undecided lately.  One of her children was cremated recently.   She lost a child to tragedy recently.

[CrazyEyes]

Limul Dudledardle has been ecstatic lately.  One of her children was cremated recently.   She lost a child to tragedy recently.  She ate in a legendary dining room lately.

Fixed.

[Paul]

You realise that you can un-dump something enroute, right?

All you have to do is zoom in on whoever is holding it, select the item, and remove the dump flag - they'll drop it. Or carry it to the appropriate stockpile, if it's an item you have a stockpile for. You could also forbid it to make them drop it no matter what.

[Kishmond]

Limul Dudledardle has been ecstatic lately.  One of her children was cremated recently.   She lost a child to tragedy recently.  She ate in a legendary dining room lately.

Fixed.

"Yeah, I dropped my baby in the well and had to watch it's corpse slowly decompose but WOW what a great dining room!"

[d3c0y2]

Ironically I do have a legendary dining room, I've not had a single tantrum, even during the great "goblins wandered in the front door and ended up in the depot" massacre of 201, they killed an entire elven caravan though and I got to keep the goods. So I think the dwarves were contented.

[Sinistar]

At first glance, I thought topic is called "Fishing with babies". Must pay more attention, though.

[MuonDecay]

At first glance, I thought topic is called "Fishing with babies". Must pay more attention, though.

Wishful thinking?

[Shadowkire]

I dont think theres is any contest between the choices of an army of babies and an army of carp.

[Paul]

Too bad there isn't a way to make baby's differ from the parent race - like giving dwarven babies a lethal bite attack and superior damage block.

I suppose for now war babies cannot be a reality...

[Alfador]

Too bad there isn't a way to make baby's differ from the parent race - like giving dwarven babies a lethal bite attack and superior damage block.

I suppose for now war babies cannot be a reality...

That'd be great for modding: have creatures that lay eggs that are actual immobile creatures, that then hatch into a larva, that then spins a cocoon, that then hatches into the adult creature.

Or a phoenix that, upon death, drops a corpse that is a pile of ashes and a phoenix egg, that then later hatches into a phoenix.