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[eviscerator]

So I breached a cave river, semi-accidentally while carving out bedrooms.  After losing 3 guys to Giant Toads / Cave Crocodiles I have to ask - does the cave river restock these guys?  It sure seems that way and their are more frogmen now after killing a dozen of them than before.

[FrickenMoron]

No. if they die, they are gone.

[Murphy]

I have heard that a new batch spawns every time you reclaim the site or an adventurer enters it. Gonna check if that's true.

[Scarpa]

I had a fortress where I drained an underground pool and built my dining hall in it. I lost the fortress and recently when I reclaimed it had snake/lizardmen and a Cave Croc back in there.

[Murphy]

Complete with water, or just the critters?

[SwiftAusterity]

I lost a fort early due to lack of water, but managed to build a very large cistern system. Reclaimed and the entire thing was 7/7 full, making it much easier to survive

[Aspgren]

I lost a fort early due to lack of water, but managed to build a very large cistern system. Reclaimed and the entire thing was 7/7 full, making it much easier to survive

But you don't need water.

You just need plants to brew beer. Get your dwarves to gather said plants and then plant them... you only need water in a region that is otherwise unable to sustain plant life, as you need it to create mud.
Those regions are rare though. They're like glaciers or something. Deserts maybe.

[Alrenous]

Cave crocodiles will breed. I know this from having to work so hard to exterminate them.

Giant toad's raw file doesn't have a [child] line, I believe they do not breed. Didn't have to work very hard exterminating them - it happened by accident whilst perforating yon crocs.

[Scarpa]

Complete with water, or just the critters?

There was water in there, but I had partially refilled the pool after building my dining hall. So it's probably just the water left over from when I abandoned.

[eviscerator]

I ended up restoring an earlier seasonal save.  This time I stationed a peasant armed with a crossbow over the cave river.  He is now a Talented Marksdwarf!  Course, I think he fired like 300 bolts...

Water pressure isn't working like I thought it would with the river.  I wanted to make a well safely, so I tunneled under the river, sealed up the tunnel, and channeled out a chunk of cave river roof directly over that spot (you wouldn't believe how hard it was, what with every dwarf trying to stand on the tile about to be severed).  Anyway, it punched through the river floor just fine, but the water refuses to come up from 1 z level below the river

its like this:

==  ==
=     =
=~~~====  ==
==~~~~~~==

[decius]

Water pressure is working just fine there. Water will not jump to the same z-level, only a lower one. Also, your well should work just fine. Just put it above the water, it doesn't matter how far.

[KylonOrina]

I lost a fort early due to lack of water, but managed to build a very large cistern system. Reclaimed and the entire thing was 7/7 full, making it much easier to survive

But you don't need water.

You just need plants to brew beer. Get your dwarves to gather said plants and then plant them... you only need water in a region that is otherwise unable to sustain plant life, as you need it to create mud.
Those regions are rare though. They're like glaciers or something. Deserts maybe.

Injured dorfs drink only water and not booze.

[eviscerator]

Yeah, but I'd also tried to set up a swimming area on the level above - oh well, they don't need to swim anyway really.

[Flashzom]

Can you possibly upload a screenshot of your setup? From your picture, it appears that water SHOULD rise up on the right side, where you punctured the hole, water pressure DOES even out, magma doesn't.

[Rowanas]

I never bother with well contraptions If you embark on a brook it's mind numbingly simple. You dig a channel and build a well. No-one can fall in and everyone is happy.