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[Zidane]

I built an overly complex irrigation system, so I could have water during winter. I failed to notice part of it was open to the sky...

A few hours of planning FOR NOTHING.

[zagibu]

What? Just floor the open parts over.

[Thadius]

Digging down to the second cavern layer in search of easily accessible water to use for the farms...

...And then when finding none down there and looking about for an alternative solution, finding that there was a lake near the top of the volcano.

Palm, meet face at an accelerated speed.

[ungulateman]

What? Just floor the open parts over.

That leads to the "stone greenhouse" effect - convenient if you want safe green or red dyes (or whip vine flour, etc.), bad if you want to grow actual food.

[Hans Lemurson]

I began a massive construction project to bring cavern-water up 100 z-levels, and halfway through construction I found an aquifer not 20 tiles from my doorstep.  Didn't know whether to laugh or cry.

[veok]

Was trying to do some work with obsidian casting. Lost 1 dwarf when he was swept off his pumping platform into the aqueduct bringing water to the magma. Lost another when mining out random overflow of obsidian to a cave-in. I've had a grand total of 7 migrants (3 seasons in), so I'm down to 12 dwarves now. Well, the cast finishes, and I tell my dwarves to tear down the dolomite casting wall.

They run off to do it, and suddenly I get the message:

Urist McDeconstructor has been frozen in ice! x 8!

Those who were "lucky" enough to be standing in 1/7 water when the free suddenly hit are now trapped within an ice and obsidian prison. I have no accessible picks, and no way to get them out. The fun-ness of a "temperate" biome!

[gopher dude]

I had embarked on a desert like savahna area.
It had flux stone and about 2-3 layers of farmable dirt, but I had to get it wet since these new version are picky.

There was a river right next to the entrance of my area and I decided I would irrigate my fields the only way I knew how: two flood gates one to block the entrance, one to act as the opening and closer for the water channel connecting my farm land with the river. Channel the water into there and open close the floodgates accordingly.
Not too hard at all I figured.

So anyway, I finally get one of my dwarfs to channel the missing piece into my irigation tunnel and.... the water doesn't flow in.
So I'm wondering, "what the shist, do I have to channel it all outside or somthing?" then I noticed that the river had actually dried up.
The river had dried up so much now that it was one entire z-level down and below my farming plot, so if I had wanted to channel the water I'd have to redig the whole thing again underneith it or find a way to bring water UP a level.

Of course I don't know how to bring water up, I'm not that smart.
I abandoned the fort out of frustration. D:

[Urist McTaverish]

Of course I don't know how to bring water up, I'm not that smart.
I abandoned the fort out of frustration. D:

Pump(s) my boy, pump(s).

[Zidane]

What? Just floor the open parts over.

I failed to notice the slopes, and I'm not sure if ponds will regenerate water if rain can not fall on them

[Urist Imiknorris]

What? Just floor the open parts over.

I failed to notice the slopes, and I'm not sure if ponds will regenerate water if rain can not fall on them

They won't. Also, flooring the open parts over won't help - whether a tile of water freezes is determined by whether it is above ground or subterranean, not whether it's outside or inside.

What? Just floor the open parts over.

That leads to the "stone greenhouse" effect - convenient if you want safe green or red dyes (or whip vine flour, etc.), bad if you want to grow actual food.

What do you mean? Inside/above ground tiles can grow any above ground crop. Are wild strawberries and prickle/fisher/sun berries not actual food?

[ungulateman]

Actual food as in PLUMP HELMETS.

Otherwise you have to go running around outside, like a bunch of elves.

[zagibu]

They won't. Also, flooring the open parts over won't help - whether a tile of water freezes is determined by whether it is above ground or subterranean, not whether it's outside or inside.

Ah, I feared as much. I guess this is one thing that should be changed in the future.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Actual food as in PLUMP HELMETS.

Otherwise you have to go running around outside, like a bunch of elves.

You could floor over your above ground farms.

OT: This is my dining room.



I'm just going to leave it that way. It's not like there was anything valuable in there anyway.

[melomel]

I've had a pair of giant lions since year two or three.  A breeding pair.  And I only just noticed.

They've been in a cage the whole time.  Together, of course, but what with the two hundred other animals in there, they haven't gotten around to making giant lion romance and producing adorable baby giant lions war animals for my military yet.  Grr.  >:[

[ZhangC1459]

I built an immense series of screw pumps, windmills, and assorted machinery to bring up magma from the magma sea on a non-edited map and accidentally had a wood block somewhere in there.