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[PTTG??]

I departed the mountainhomes with an anvil. We carried it over hill and thrugh stream, crossed every obsticle to our destination. We disassembled the cart and the anvil was set on a nice smooth piece of ice.

Then the thaw came...

So, or anvil is sitting down at the bottom of a pond, and probably will be destroyed in the freeze in the winter. Just thought it was a nice story.

[Martin]

Yeah, been there. My dwarves like to go skating the day before the thaw. I've taken to marking my ponds as restricted so they don't do stupid crap like that.

[Hyndis]

Dig out ramps along the sides of ponds. That way even if a dwarf falls into one, they can still escape before they drown. A dwarf with 0 swimming skill can still move maybe 10-15 tiles before drowning.

[Martin]

Dig out ramps along the sides of ponds. That way even if a dwarf falls into one, they can still escape before they drown. A dwarf with 0 swimming skill can still move maybe 10-15 tiles before drowning.

Faster and safer to just mark them restricted. You can solve the problem on the first day of embark. I'm guessing PTTG lost his anvil rather soon after arriving.

[Flaede]

drain the pond. the only way.

[Aqizzar]

Drain the pond quickly.  Just keeping until your spineless dwarves think the water is low enough to lug that block of solid iron up on land.

Though I wouldn't worry about winter.  Objects that get frozen in ice should reappear when it thaws.  I have a caravan guard die in a moat one time, and I got his equipment out the next spring.