As mentioned before I wanted to build a wall around my fortress entrance and then possibly build a moat around it. So I started construction on a wall and since the last migrants arrived I have plenty of labor around to get anything finished quickly. So building the wall was the easy part.
Onto the moat then. I channeled around my wall. No problem there. It started raining and some of the moat filled up. I then noticed how suddenly there was also water in my access tunnel on the level below.
It was then I realised that by channeling the moat I had dug into the tunnel below. And it wasn't before long that the dwarves noticed the shortcut and cheerfully started walking in and out of my fortress via the 'moat'.
Instead of creating a first line of defence I had achieved the exact opposite and created an extra route to get inside my fortress.
After some deliberation on how to fix this it seemed the best way was to create floors over the channeled parts. Fortunately with all the migrants the amount of dwarves I have available at any one time ensures that any task (except mining due to lack of extra picks) is done within minutes.
The 'moat' around my wall now covered with a wooden floor
The red dotted line indicates where I inadvertently created extra entrances into my fortress
So now it's back to the drawing board although the only way seems to build a bigger wall and creating a moat around that. Because whatever happens....I want my MOAT!
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