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[denito]

So I was just thinking:  if you were on a frozen map and you had an aquifer, and you strip mined so that the aquifer tiles were exposed to open air, doesn't that mean that the water that fills in areas you mine stone out of will instantly turn to ice?  And if you kept a ring of ice to seal it, couldn't you mine out the ice in the middle and get to the next layer down?

[Lemunde]

According to the wiki this is indeed a viable way to get through an aquifer.  I've never tried it myself.

[Blaze]

It works, it's actually quite ingenious come to think of it. Not to mention it makes finding water trivial; a non-resource heavy source at that.

[Puzzlemaker]

Yes, I have seen screenshots of this method.  It works very well.

[Untelligent]

I seem to recall that the well-known community fort Nist Akath used this method to breach their aquifer.

[denito]

Great!  I'm going to try it then.  As long as the temperature stays cold year round, I imagine you could also reflood the area to create unlimited amounts of ice to build your fort out of.

[denito]

Yes, definitely works.  You might want to plan for having each layer be 2 walls thick instead of just one, in case you end up needing to carve ramps into the inner layer of ice to get in and out, or just in case you screw up.

Also, rather than let the dwarves get themselves stuck or fall while channelling all those layers, I just mined out every in-between floor except the top level, and caved in the topmost level so it would bust through all the floors I mined out, so I didn't need to channel to make the pit.