Water Removal Block or Command please?

[MasterWalt]

So I used the new Diggers to mine out the ground under my kingdom(Which I have the MAX Territory Size) for a MASSIVE Mining Expansion(Love the Diggers, GREAT Addition, THEY Help so much). So I began digging Halls for my new Bedrooms for these Miners. I leave my Diggers to their work and come back in about 2-5 minutes to find a SINGLE block of Water has flooded my Basement. My freshly dug out 4 block high mines! Every Level, my Bronze, Tin, Iron, etc. All the way down... to fix this Massive blunder would require to have my Builders Block up my Mines completely and drain them again. which would leave my Resources in danger of running low. It doesn't help that it's very difficult to see underwater. I would have to plug up my Bedrooms in the basements as well. Luckily, there's no drowning in the game so my miners and sleeping Colonists aren't going to die... anyway, Water is incredibly dangerous and there's no method of removing large bodies efficiently... with obviously the Builders being the best solution at the moment. Also, the Special Diggers can't remove Water(which makes sense, but water is typically the only block I want to specifically remove from an area). A Water repellent Block or Water Remove Command would be so useful and I'm sure many people would be grateful.

[Carrell1109]

Actually Diggers whould be able to remove water them not being able to is what dont make sense. Water currently is one of the bigger issues that does not even function semi correctly. One block of watter shouldnt be able to fill a while network I mean really where is all that water comming from ....and really its not hard to fill a bucket and move water ...they can make guns and so on yet cant fill a bucket lol ...still amuses me.....

[MasterWalt]

I'll try setting them up above the Water, but the Diggers were still digging by the time my ENTIRE underground was flooded

[Sir Jingles]

Just experienced the same problem. So the fastest way to solve this seems to be having the builders fill up the whole room with blocks, and then make them remove the blocks again afterwards?

[TresChicago]

Yep, that’s the only way in an none moded environment to remove water.

The devs are working on it, but along with a zillion other things too

Glad you got yours back under control and didn’t suffer much but yeah waters only purpose in this game is to totally, totally flood you out leaving you at the mercy of the builders

[peg_odoms]

well, here it is 4-2020 and the water flooding is still a problem. I have just hit one block and my whole underground base was completely flooded. I am so bummed about losing my game after working on it for hours. I am walking away to reconsider if i want to continue to play this game. I love it, but it is very disappointing that nothing has been done to fix this flooding problem after 2 yrs.

[Vuld_Edone]

I'll necropost this because I just hit the same situation.

Single mineshaft, and at the first sub-level I had installed a water flow for my water gatherers and fishermen. Way later in the game I decided to renovate the mines and, of course, one block missed, now everything is flooded.

I will actually attempt to salvage all this because (a) finally something to actually do around here and (b) I was renovating anyway. So, question: anyone has any dedicated method to do it efficiently?
Also yeah, a better water mechanic would be welcome.

EDIT: It is slowly occurring to me that with the current water dynamic, it is actually possible to build safe passages to prevent the water from flooding everything.
Basically it never expands upward, it ignores its own pressure. Meaning you dig your door 2-3 blocks below its intended height, then dig a stair 2-3 blocks up, and the water will just stagnate there.
It's a hassle and space-consuming, but such a security would prevent a single breach from flooding absolutely everything.

And I had forgotten the demand for doors...