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[Micro102]

i was just reading about someone flooding the entire valley with an aquifer so i got to thinking "what if we could use scuba suits to travel under water"

go into the ocean, maybe an entirly new race...and build an undwerwater fort without draining 5 billion tons of water and unsuspending 5000 times

[Grumman]

I think it would be beyond the dwarves' technology level. Something like the standard diving dress would be more characterful, even if it's still far beyond what the dwarves can build.

[andrea]

Leonardo from Vinci invented something similar. maybe dwarves could use that?

[JoshuaFH]

hmmm, Lolor Dwarvinci?

[andrea]

a dwarf like that would make the awesomest fortress ever! wooden tanks, parachutes, a couple of flying things, masterpiece engraving and decorations...

[Silverionmox]

I wonder, why is it so difficult to keep fantasy games from replicating daily life?

[Tormy]

Oh noes....not scuba gears again..

[Micro102]

better then a magic bubble

[Soralin]

Hmm, has anyone ever tried making a dwarven submarine?  Say, make a enclosed room or set of rooms out of obsidian over the top of a lake or river or ocean or such, suspended from above by some attachment.  Since natural walls remain intact on falling, you could then cut the top support, and drop it down into the water.   In order to do it with dwarves inside though you may have to make the top layer of obsidian with them already inside, so there's no constructed gaps that could break and allow water to get in.

[Veroule]

I think my next mega project should be to drain an ocean and fill it with magma.  I would use the completely dwarven method of capturing 20 goblin lashers and having 500 dwarves operating pumps continuously while the lashers "encouraged" them.

We don't need no stinking scuba suits, we have magma.

[Neonivek]

How about Dwarves use Diving Bells?

[Grumman]

Since natural walls remain intact on falling, you could then cut the top support, and drop it down into the water.

Unfortunately dwarves don't remain intact on falling, so I don't think it would work.

[Tormy]

maybe an entirly new race...and build an undwerwater fort

Sorta off-topic but...
Hm...actually an underwater race would be nice to have in the vanilla game even. Dominions 3. anyone? 
It would be fun...you settle down near a lake, and after 5 minutes of playing you notice as a smaller army of underwater monsters are heading towards the main gate of your fortress. This would mean endless number of sieges however...since dwarves cannot go underwater at the moment [..and they shouldn't! they are dwarves afterall  ]...possible solution: get rid of the water what is protecting the nasty beasts / seal off the area. 

[Skid]

You could just build a platform out above their fort and then collapse it.

[Manchild]

well i have already embarked pn a journy to flood my whole map.....all it takes is to build a giant wall around your map perimeter and have no way for your water to dissapear....then flood it with a pump set that utilizes an underwater river, and voila...also it could work with magma......but i havent found any accesible magma areas on my maps yet....still trying to generate that perfect one.....sadly i also have no freezing areas........