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[shadenight123]

tried to dig an open air cistern for rain water, which I planned on filling by deviating all the nearby 'pools' of water into it.
The Miner stupidly dug himself down 23 z-levels, climbed back up for the first tile he had forgotten, then plummeted to his death for 24 z-levels,

Note to self: Remember, dwarfs believe in Warner Bros Gravity. Gravity doesn't believe in dwarves.

[Ozarck]

Wy would you need a cistern 24 Z-levels deep?

[mirrizin]

Because you can?

[Ozarck]

I can't really argue with that.

[WanderingKid]

Dwarf father to son: "Son, today, we're going to build a cistern for the fortress."
Son: "Alright dad, where do we start?"
Father: "Well, first, we check to make sure we've got good stone a good 25 stories deep."
Son: "25 stories dad!  Wow, that's a lot of water, why not just a level or two?"
Father: "Son, that's not a cistern.  That's a pond.  Elves bathe in those."
Son: "Oh, I see.  Well, what about 10 stories deep dad?  Sure that would be enough water  to keep the fortress safe for a long time?"
Father: "Son, a mere 10 stories is what we use for minor construction work with obsidian.  We wouldn't want our cistern to simply look like one of our obsidian coolers, would we?"
Son: "Well, if it was funct..."
Father: "WOULD WE?"
Son: (squeaky voice) "no..."
Father: "Good, so, now we go 25 stories down, and approximately 15 meters round...."

Passerby (to himself): "Oh gods, Urist is making another construction for the fortress.  I'd best warn the mayor."

[JAFANZ]

I would note that a 1x1x24 cistern would be inherently more useful than even a 3x4x2 one... (amongst other things, you'd only have one tile exposed to evaporation at any given time)

[Ozarck]

by the time my 11x11x2 cistern (with 4 wells, though I could make more) gets anywhere near evaporation, My pump stack will fill it right back up. Maybe I'm ignorant, but I can't imagine a use for a 24 story water stack that would get me to switch.

[JAFANZ]

shadenight123 specified the cistern was to be filled by rain capture, since the only tiles that convert rain to liquid water are the ones at the bottoms of the pools when you embark, his water supply is inherently very limited.

[gunpowdertea]

... and AFAIK water evaporates only if it is 1/7 deep, so at most the top level would evaporate.
But I like the reasoning - "elves bath in it", so very true and almost C|N>K (coffee piped through nose to keyboard).

[Sutremaine]

In hotter climes, any water outside can evaporate. A bridge or roof will stop this, but also stop any water from being collected directly.

Water collection under these conditions will vary from normal with a dip in summer to a few dribbles only in winter.

[smjjames]

In a desert though, all bets are off when counting on rain. Maybe you'll get seasonal rains, or maybe it'll only rain once every several years.

Anyways, had a semi-facepalm, not sure if you would call it a facepalm. Anyway, I had accidentially forbid and detasked an obsidian boulder that a mason mood was using after construction had started. I thought I had aborted the mood, but it came out with an iron door. Kind of makes sense since obsidian has a good deal of iron in it.

[Alarith]

I face palmed when I saw that Were animals can spread their disease, should have realized that.  It wasn't deadly, but it did kill my bookkeeper.  Also, when a group of migrants arrived in the one small spot where they would be trapped by a river, and by the time my dwarves got to them the migrants were throwing tantrums.

[Ozarck]

It wasn't deadly, but it did kill my bookkeeper.

Wait, what? If it kills, it's deadly, right?

[Alarith]

It wasn't deadly, but it did kill my bookkeeper.

Wait, what? If it kills, it's deadly, right?

Whoops, I meant it didn't cause my fortress to collapse.

[Sutremaine]

I thought I had aborted the mood, but it came out with an iron door. Kind of makes sense since obsidian has a good deal of iron in it.

Iron is also the first item in the metals file, and the metals file is the first of the inorganic files.

I keep meaning to move some other metal to the first position in the file so I can see if that's why iron is chosen in the absence of the expected base material, but I keep forgetting. Forbidding the base material works for things other than metal -- I've had iron clothing. I've also had a mood stall and fail, but I'm not sure if that was caused by forbidding everything or forbidding bone.