Is there any easy way to get logs out of water?

[MattN]

Early game if you cut down trees near water and lose a few logs it would be nice to get them back. Is there an easy way to do that or would all methods take more effort than the logs are worth?

[love]

It's not worth it unless you plan on redirecting the entire reservoir.
Logs are plentiful. If you have few on the surface, dig down until you pop a cavern and harvest some mushroom trees.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Unless your map is VERY wood bare, then it is way more hassle.

[Robert]

Depends. If the logs are in a river it would be a lot effort for a little wood. But if they dropped into a pool, you can make the pool bigger (dig a couple channel tiles around the edges), and the water level will drop low enough for your dwarves to enter the water. I think you need 3/7 water maximum so that your dwarves can enter the water without drowning.

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

If it's really an issue, you can either a.) wait for the water to freeze and mind out the item(s), or if that's not an option b.) redirect the water either to a preferred location (be that a room big enough for it to evaporate or a cistern) or off the map through a fortification.

[Raline]

If you just don't want to see items there, you can hide them visually with the eye icon in the rightmost of the bottom menu

[Rainbow Jeremy]

Early on if they fall in a pond and it is conveniently located you could dig a farm plot out and drain the pond to improve soil with water, otherwise not worth.

[NimrodX]

Have to drain the water somehow. Don't remember maximum depth for hauling out objects but anything over 1/7 cancels most things. Draining a murky pool is easy. A river is not worth it early on, and probably undesirable to mangle it up for later on.

Currently dwarves are lacking some basic abilities they'd be expected to have like rope elevators (aside from wells), ladders to climb out of pits (stepladders don't work), and anything to hook and pull anything out of water or anything else.

[Xcorps]

Originally posted by MattN:

Early game if you cut down trees near water and lose a few logs it would be nice to get them back. Is there an easy way to do that or would all methods take more effort than the logs are worth?

If you were really desperate for wood you could run a channel long enough to bring the water to 3/7. Or if you were really really desperate you could bucket it out. You could also build a screw pump. Which requires like 10x the labor and material that you get from a few logs.

But if you value your sanity, use the forbid tool and the hide tool

[MattN]

Thanks all. I figured it was more hassle than it's worth, but I wanted to hear from people who know more than me before I left it be.