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[TheDJ17]

I was was expanding a pond above my fort in the hopes of avoiding the inevetable goblinarcher attacks from above by digging a few trench squares to conect a large cresent shaped pond, but I dug in just the wrong spot and water stared poorring out the pond right near my fortress!
I had my masons and woodcrafters quickly make a wall to incase the water but by the time they finished all the water had tried up.
So I just plugged up the hole with a granite boulder but I still felt like a giant noob.
Has anything like this ever happened to you?

[sonerohi]

It is physically impossible for one of those dinky little ponds to put a whole fortress under water.

[Mount]

yeah...  I had a goblin thief pick several doors related to my aqueducts, with the end result of, when I tried to drown the little green bastard, I ended up flooding the entire bottom z-level of my fortress..

[Aspgren]

... no. nothing like that has ever happened to me.

... by accident 

[TheDJ17]

It is physically impossible for one of those dinky little ponds to put a whole fortress under water.

Unfortantly I didn't know that.
But the panic wall kept my wood stockpile from being caked in mud so I guess thats a plus.

[Mount]

It is physically impossible for one of those dinky little ponds to put a whole fortress under water.

welllllll...  ponds do refill when it rains, so if it was a big pond, in a super-rainy biome, and you never plugged the leak..  you MIGHT be able to drown your fortress over a very long period.    In one of my early fortresses, I expanded a pond for an underground refuse pile (open to sky, so no miasma...)  A cat got locked in and and after a very rainy spring, the water did eventually get deep enough to drown the little moggie.  Took the better portion of two seasons, though.

[sonerohi]

It is physically impossible for one of those dinky little ponds to put a whole fortress under water.

welllllll...  ponds do refill when it rains, so if it was a big pond, in a super-rainy biome, and you never plugged the leak..  you MIGHT be able to drown your fortress over a very long period.    In one of my early fortresses, I expanded a pond for an underground refuse pile (open to sky, so no miasma...)  A cat got locked in and and after a very rainy spring, the water did eventually get deep enough to drown the little moggie.  Took the better portion of two seasons, though.

That's... deliciously sadistic. A slow, watery death? The only better way to do it would've been magma rain that slowly burns the cat.

[Mount]

It is physically impossible for one of those dinky little ponds to put a whole fortress under water.

welllllll...  ponds do refill when it rains, so if it was a big pond, in a super-rainy biome, and you never plugged the leak..  you MIGHT be able to drown your fortress over a very long period.    In one of my early fortresses, I expanded a pond for an underground refuse pile (open to sky, so no miasma...)  A cat got locked in and and after a very rainy spring, the water did eventually get deep enough to drown the little moggie.  Took the better portion of two seasons, though.

That's... deliciously sadistic. A slow, watery death? The only better way to do it would've been magma rain that slowly burns the cat.

In my defense, the little furball kept waiting at EVERY DOOR that I marked pet-impassable, until a dwarf passed through it.  Then the rotten little couch-clawer would dart through while the door was open.  (so, basically, behaving exactly like a real cat...) 

I figured, given how much cats love to swim, the water would be crueler than magma.

[Aspgren]

A little off-topic but incredibly annoying. Spoiler tag due to long off-topic story.

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This reminds me of when I stole all the stuff from an elven caravan once. It was mostly junk ... and then I felt that I was cheating so I ordered the loot dumped.

The dwarves dumped it in the river. So far so good right? Well ... one of the things they dumped was a black crested gibbon. Animals in cages don't drown, didn't know that at the time, didn't notice the monkey, didn't care.
Later on I had forgotten about him and thought "I sure have alot of animals" so I ordered horse foals and cats mostly to be butchered and the more exotic animals could go up for adoption. It'd be nice to see them breed.

CUE ENTRANCE of the woman I later named "Crazy Monkey lady" who adopted the gibbon but couldn't reach the cage. She would stand around SCREAMING that she wanted her gibbon. That she couldn't retrieve it. I had enough, I drafted her and ordered her to stand in a drowning chamber but she wouldn't listen. She prioritised that gibbon over EVERYTHING she spammed me with thousands of messages upon thousands of messages. No really the entire announcement screen was covered with "cancels release pet, target inaccessible" x2417 or something.

She was driving me nuts. I couldn't get her to enter the drowning chamber but I gave her a workshop in the goblin prison. She went in, I drafted her and I released a goblin wrestler. The wrestler broke her hand and she broke the wrestlers foot.. the wrestler only wanted out and kept on her side of the room, the crazy monkey lady kept on the other side. Eventually she grew tired and fell asleep. Now she spammed me with "cancels sleep; OH GOD A GOBLIN WRESTLER!" x3542 and I literally went nuts. I ordered the soldiers in there and they killed the goblin but she didn't shut up.
She just refused to shut up! The goblin was taken care of and she yelled and yelled and yelled and yelled!

I solved it by placing her bed in the drowning chamber and she was taken there to rest her injury. I couldn't have drowned her fast enough!

Morale of the story: Floods are all well and good but don't let cages animals get caught in them.

[Skelodwarf]

http://mkv25.net/dfma/map-5363-themagicalmechanicaldemon

Fun with aqueducts and not caring.

[engy]

Yes.

Aquifer - Do not dig under.

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So, I'm at Z-8 digging out marble rooms for my nobles, I get 'damp stone located' hmm odd, must be the cave river I asked for the site finder.
I install some doors in the hallways around the damp stone 'just in case'.  I even dumped the stone out of the way so the doors would actually close.  Mistake One: Then I went and dug out the tiles.  No problem.
Hmm must be on the Z level above or below, I come back after I'm getting dangous terrain messages, Black Sand Aquifer on Level Z-8.
Forbid and Tightly Close doors after miners leave, stop expansion in that area, move on.

A Noble Migrant Wave (Baron, Baroness, Tax Collector) requires some more Noble rooms, my worker's rooms are at the core around the main shaft rooms are already dug in safe stone.

Damp stone warnings?  Oh from my mistake on Z-8, no worries I wasn't able to dig out any of the actual Aquifer yet, just the stone next to it.
Mistake 2: Ignore Damp Stone Warnings without double checking.
Mistake 3: Dig out Z-9.
Mistake 4: Have not installed extra doors on any level sub-Aquifer.
Mistake 5: Not having a ready supply of doors in case of emergency. (I tapped the magma pipe above my entire fortress, I had to know something was going to happen eventually.)

After the hallways starting flooding on Z-9 and I realized what I had done, damage control went into full effect.  The miners were given a mass designation to dig out everything they could around the area to make the flooding flood non-imporant/non-saveable areas.  All Mason orders where canceled and moved to constructing walls around areas I thought I could save and to direct the water other places.  Doors were removed from main fortress rooms and installed in any hallway under 2sqs wide.

The water reached the main stairway shaft.

Every wide open area below Z-9 was written off, 2 storage floors and one tomb floor.  The cheap worker rooms around the main core of Z-10 I still thought I could save to one wall and 2 doors.

Water reached the top right side stairwell.
Everything north of the main east west running hallway is written off.

Water reached the bottom left side stairwell.
Everything on the west side of the main stairway is written off.

I was able to save 4 large rooms on Z-9. And the bottom right side stairwell for access.  And most of my miners had happy thoughts from the waterfalls (Stairs.) and were all at least dabbling swimmers.

I didn't think the water would move as fast as it did and I tried to save more then what I actually could, which cost me far more.  If I had just walled off all stairwells on Z-9 I would have saved everything below it, instead, my wall off the hallways, dang flooded move back try again, cost me much more then what it should have.

It wouldn't have hurt as much if I didn't have all that storage down there.

[Skorpion]

It is physically impossible for one of those dinky little ponds to put a whole fortress under water.

Was on my last fort. I linked every pond on the map into an aqueduct. Then hooked the brook up to it.
I had to ditch the save; the FPS dropped to like 1.

[Duke 2.0]

 Huh, goblins coming. No problem, I'll just station my mark- NO! DON'T HIT THEM WITH YER CROSSBOWS! Alright, I still ha- Oh damn, the wife of my warrior-king just died. He is miserable...

 It is fortunate for me he never went berserk thanks to several-hundred masterwork glass windows of both green and clear glass types.