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[Hyndis]

If you've blocked off the open sides of the cavern lake you can just pump the water over the dam and it will flow off the side of the screen.  There's really no need to pump it to the surface unless you want to muddy everything aboveground for some aesthetic reason.

Also, even without trees you'll have a long wait to get rid of a large, flat area of water if you pump from just one point.  Water spreading is a lot slower than you think.

Just construct floors above the water level and build pumps on the floors. You can pump water from near the edge to the Z level above where it will flow off the map into empty space. Basically just using the Moses Effect.

[BigD145]

If you've blocked off the open sides of the cavern lake you can just pump the water over the dam and it will flow off the side of the screen.  There's really no need to pump it to the surface unless you want to muddy everything aboveground for some aesthetic reason.

Also, even without trees you'll have a long wait to get rid of a large, flat area of water if you pump from just one point.  Water spreading is a lot slower than you think.

Just construct floors above the water level and build pumps on the floors. You can pump water from near the edge to the Z level above where it will flow off the map into empty space. Basically just using the Moses Effect.

Or dig in the level below and knock many holes into the bottom of the lake to let gravity do the job.

[Hyndis]

If you've blocked off the open sides of the cavern lake you can just pump the water over the dam and it will flow off the side of the screen.  There's really no need to pump it to the surface unless you want to muddy everything aboveground for some aesthetic reason.

Also, even without trees you'll have a long wait to get rid of a large, flat area of water if you pump from just one point.  Water spreading is a lot slower than you think.

Just construct floors above the water level and build pumps on the floors. You can pump water from near the edge to the Z level above where it will flow off the map into empty space. Basically just using the Moses Effect.

Or dig in the level below and knock many holes into the bottom of the lake to let gravity do the job.

Unreliable. With pumps you will have 0/7 water adjacent to 7/7 water which means you can very easily deal with the tower cap problem and ensure that not a single tower cap is missed. If you just drain the water with gravity you may not drain the entire lake evenly, which means there could be tower caps that sprout up yet cannot be cut down.

This is of course completely unacceptable for the lake to not be uniform. The region would then have to be abandoned.   

[BigD145]

If you've blocked off the open sides of the cavern lake you can just pump the water over the dam and it will flow off the side of the screen.  There's really no need to pump it to the surface unless you want to muddy everything aboveground for some aesthetic reason.

Also, even without trees you'll have a long wait to get rid of a large, flat area of water if you pump from just one point.  Water spreading is a lot slower than you think.

Just construct floors above the water level and build pumps on the floors. You can pump water from near the edge to the Z level above where it will flow off the map into empty space. Basically just using the Moses Effect.

Or dig in the level below and knock many holes into the bottom of the lake to let gravity do the job.

Unreliable. With pumps you will have 0/7 water adjacent to 7/7 water which means you can very easily deal with the tower cap problem and ensure that not a single tower cap is missed. If you just drain the water with gravity you may not drain the entire lake evenly, which means there could be tower caps that sprout up yet cannot be cut down.

This is of course completely unacceptable for the lake to not be uniform. The region would then have to be abandoned.   

Abandoning because of trees? In DF?!

[Truean]

Abandoning because of trees? In DF?!

Axes, screw pumps, and carved fortification drains taking the water down a few Z levels and then off the map!!

[Hyndis]

If you've blocked off the open sides of the cavern lake you can just pump the water over the dam and it will flow off the side of the screen.  There's really no need to pump it to the surface unless you want to muddy everything aboveground for some aesthetic reason.

Also, even without trees you'll have a long wait to get rid of a large, flat area of water if you pump from just one point.  Water spreading is a lot slower than you think.

Just construct floors above the water level and build pumps on the floors. You can pump water from near the edge to the Z level above where it will flow off the map into empty space. Basically just using the Moses Effect.

Or dig in the level below and knock many holes into the bottom of the lake to let gravity do the job.

Unreliable. With pumps you will have 0/7 water adjacent to 7/7 water which means you can very easily deal with the tower cap problem and ensure that not a single tower cap is missed. If you just drain the water with gravity you may not drain the entire lake evenly, which means there could be tower caps that sprout up yet cannot be cut down.

This is of course completely unacceptable for the lake to not be uniform. The region would then have to be abandoned.   

Abandoning because of trees? In DF?!

What other game is made by the OCD for the OCD?

 

[Daetrin]

If you've blocked off the open sides of the cavern lake you can just pump the water over the dam and it will flow off the side of the screen.  There's really no need to pump it to the surface unless you want to muddy everything aboveground for some aesthetic reason.

Also, even without trees you'll have a long wait to get rid of a large, flat area of water if you pump from just one point.  Water spreading is a lot slower than you think.

Just construct floors above the water level and build pumps on the floors. You can pump water from near the edge to the Z level above where it will flow off the map into empty space. Basically just using the Moses Effect.

Or dig in the level below and knock many holes into the bottom of the lake to let gravity do the job.

Unreliable. With pumps you will have 0/7 water adjacent to 7/7 water which means you can very easily deal with the tower cap problem and ensure that not a single tower cap is missed. If you just drain the water with gravity you may not drain the entire lake evenly, which means there could be tower caps that sprout up yet cannot be cut down.

This is of course completely unacceptable for the lake to not be uniform. The region would then have to be abandoned.   

Abandoning because of trees? In DF?!

What other game is made by the OCD for the OCD?

 

A Tale In The Desert.

[DarthCloakedDwarf]

Makes me think how fun the life of dwarf plumbers is. They need to constantly tend to clogging pump stacks and ducts due to fungal growth.

Erm... dunno about you, but when I make a water pump stack, I pave the floor with microcline.

[CaveLobsterShell]

Makes me think how fun the life of dwarf plumbers is. They need to constantly tend to clogging pump stacks and ducts due to fungal growth.

Erm... dunno about you, but when I make a water pump stack, I pave the floor with microcline.

Awesome, a use for microcline!

[Tallim]

 Find the blue beauty.

Can we adopt this phrase, it has a great ring to it.

[Noble Digger]

Designate the lakebed as an empty stockpile. Apparently trees won't grow in stockpile-designated areas. Then you just have to worry about the ones that are already there.

I have a fort primarily dug out of a sand layer, and all variety of cave plants and trees started infecting the industry levels of the fort after I found the underground. Once or twice per year, a tree grows up through one of my stockpiles and deletes a tile of the stockpile. How come my trees are not respecting dwarven industry on the surface?

[immibis]

Sorry to tell you this, but in an underground lake the trees are already there because of a bug. When the map is created, it places trees in 7/7 water in the lakes. So...you can't really...