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[Emperor Iones]

I've embarked to a terrifying glacier with a sinister ocean. I've tapped an aquifer for farming but I can't get drinking water from it.
Is it possible without magma? The screw pump method instantly creates an ice wall for me.

[Osmosis Jones]

Do it underground. Water won't freeze, hence no problemo.

[Emperor Iones]

It is underground. I mine out the wall and it instantly reforms.

[Savok]

I think it needs to be understone.

[Emperor Iones]

No luck with that either. Tried pumping onto a stone floor, under a stone floor, channeling the floor above...
It creates a wall on everything.

[Morberis]

Natural or constructed floors? It might make a difference if the area was once exposed to the light above

[Emperor Iones]

Constructed, originally had natural ice floor above. Tested with constructed stone floors to no avail.
Never been exposed to sunlight.

[Faces of Mu]

I'm trying to tell from your picture which square is your pump and which is the ice wall that keeps refreezing. You're saying that whenever you pump from the aquifer below, the water that comes out of the pump simply freezes instantly and refreezes again when you mine it? Or have I read you wrong here?

[Pilsu]

This was my experience as well

Hmm, tried moving the source tile underground?

[Savok]

I think it needs to be under natural stone that was not created by magma touching water.

[ZeroGravitas]

I've embarked to a terrifying glacier with a sinister ocean. I've tapped an aquifer for farming but I can't get drinking water from it.
Is it possible without magma? The screw pump method instantly creates an ice wall for me.

I did this on my last fort. You need to go deeper and it'll work fine.  From what I can tell, it's not a matter of what it's touching, it's purely about temperature. You can't have flowing water that close to the ice pack.