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[Zaerosz]

Just embarked on this fairly impressive site, and I was wondering: could I channel through the frozen river, then through each layer of soil until I hit the aquifer to freeze it and dig through?

[Urist Imiknorris]

You don't have to go through the river. Channel down anywhere, puncture, freeze, wall off, problem solved.

[mrtspence]

You don't have to dig through the frozen river. If exposed to the air, it will freeze anyways.

EDIT: Ninja'd THE HARDEST xD

[Zaerosz]

I want my entrance to be in the middle of the river, though.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Be sure to wall it all off before the river and aquifer thaw.

[FleshForge]

If you want your entrance to be out on the river then yeah, make some walls and preferably a bit of floor over the river surface before it thaws.  Be aware traders and migrants won't be able to get in though (maybe that's what you want).

[Zaerosz]

So apparently the river thaws on the 10th day. I have nine days to dig through a frozen river and an aquifer and wall off both. Fun times.

[BigJake]

Have FunŽ!

[FleshForge]

Eh, or you could just wait until next cold season, during which you'll have a lot more time (you embark in mid spring iirc).

[Fanklok]

I suggest you to make haste and enjoy your almighty fortress impervious to the outside world for most of the year.

[FleshForge]

Well keep in mind, you can dig around on the easy side of the river and then floor it over once you have your awesome mid-river entrance constructed later.

[Zaerosz]

Eh, or you could just wait until next cold season, during which you'll have a lot more time (you embark in mid spring iirc).

Gonna have to do that - fourth attempt was my best so far, got down to stone with only one death (my miner, unfortunately), but couldn't wall it off in time.

[Zaerosz]

Um. Do rivers drain into aquifers?

[Vehudur]

They can, but it's uncommon to see happen naturally and you usually have to engineer it.

Warning:  Diverting a river is not as easy as it sounds, and it doesn't even sound easy.

[Zaerosz]

Yeeeeah. I kinda... kinda had to channel a ten-by-ten hole in the ground down five levels during winter to get through the river and the aquifer, and now the river (about twenty-five tiles wide) is falling down the hole and vanishing. Almost everything past the hole is 1/7 and 2/7 water. I'm waiting until winter again to floor over the top of the aquifer area.