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[Girlinhat]

So I recently noticed that all my dwarves are upset at the lack of a well.  I could, easily, place a well over the nearby river.  Instead, I found myself building a watertower.  But not just a watertower.  It begins as a few stilts on the ground, and then a ring.  This ring then has several support shafts that go up, holding up a sphere the same diameter as the ring.  The interior is hollow and shall contain a lot of water, as the diameter is 21 tiles (19 interior, due to walls) and is designed to empty itself via one or more hatches at the bottom.  I'm downloading Overseer now, to get a good idea of how annoyingly massive this is.  It's also very unfinished, and construction of a sphere is turning out to be quite the hassle.  Nevertheless, my ego demand it be done!

What sort of absurd waterworks have you put into place?  Or magmaworks.  Liquid-related megaprojects count as well.

[ChairmanPoo]

I have this idea in mind to build a giant pit next to a river (like, a really huge pit), build skyscrapers inside, and flood it in order to make it into the Sunken City of Wharrgarbl. (recycled once again). The idea is to make all access to the fortress (or most access to the fortress anyway-there should be a way to drain the water) through a pressure hatch

[Blade Master Model 42]

I've been working on a giant cistern placed above my fortress. In the event of serious Fun, I shall collapse it, and hopefully drown/push away everything on the gorram map.

I've never used pumps before, and I've already had about 5 deaths in the construction process alone. This oughta be good.

[Halnoth]

I've been working on a giant cistern placed above my fortress. In the event of serious Fun, I shall collapse it, and hopefully drown/push away everything on the gorram map.

I've never used pumps before, and I've already had about 5 deaths in the construction process alone. This oughta be good.

what deaths how? I don't think I've ever had a construction death related to pumps.

[Blade Master Model 42]

Oh, no, not from pumps. I failed at removing some floors I'd already set up.

A section of the cavern collapsed, and somehow took close to ten dwarves with it.

Must be more careful.

[darkflagrance]

I once built a giant water-pump tower connected to a great map-spanning aqueduct linked to a massive cistern carved out of the side of the mountain, flanked by statues of the founders and the founding of my city, that both served as a water source for my mountain peak tower metropolis and as the habitat for the inhabitants of a (modded) river mermaid farm under my city.