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[Bihlbo]

I recently embarked on the shores of a lake in a temperate zone. The lake stays frozen about half the year, which is both awesome and annoying. For starters, my wagon was on the ice when I arrived, and I didn't quite get all of the stuff onto land before the thaw, which means it was off-limits until the freeze came again. On the other hand, there's no way that (as long as the lake stays frozen) with even a dozen miners and masons I could possibly run out of ice with which to make structures. It's also rather cool to have a tower that exists under the lake's surface, and only pokes out in the places where I know the enemies cannot be too much of a threat.

However, when the lake thaws the game goes unresponsive for about 15 minutes. I've found that the dfpause hack has been necessary for when this happens. What steps can I take to reduce this time?

Also, so far I haven't lost any dwarves or animals to drowning or being encased in ice. But that has only come at quite a lot of work - the surface of every body of water has had to be designated as restricted to traffic, and all cats and dogs have to be penned when a thaw comes. Thankfully, grime appears as ice thaws just before the thaw so I get some warning, but I'm wondering what other people have done to deal with similar situations.

[BeforeLifer]

15 minutes? Man that is bad, once i was on a map with a fairly long river, pools like you wouldent BELIVE like no matter where you place the view, there was at least one pool of water, But when the thaw came I just waited a minute and then its fine. Srsy if its 15 minutes for a thaw that is a problem.

[ASCIt]

You could always dig out all of the ice in winter and floor/pave over areas that you'd prefer to stay (relatively) waterless.