It is extremely dangerous to mine solid ice from a waterfall that could break at any time. What people in northern villages in those times would do is have a well, and usually some sort of paddle system. When you want water, you have to break the ice that formed on top of the water with the paddles. Or the paddles are used the entire time to keep the water from freezing.
But you wouldn't HAVE to mine it from the fall itself. You can dig a surface canal. Breaking ice ends up on the bottom of the fall. it melts into the canal, which runs through the settlement. If it's too cold to melt, the ice can be shaped into a track, and breaking pieces slide down it like a luge, straight into town. THAT is if the icefall breaks onto land. If it breaks into a waterway, even easier. You just have a crew that fishes chunks of ice off the floes downstream from the fall. Still no need to dig.
I have seen that claim repeatedly. What version of the game are you playing? From my point of view on both PC and Android, the bowman is hitting the target. The arrow is right over the middle seam on the skin before it disappears. That's a clear hit!
The problem with your idea is it makes getting water a man's job, when historically getting water has always been a woman's job. The men dig a well to make it easy for the women to get the water, then they go off and hunt, fish, build stuff, explore, conquer, etc. etc. etc. Gone for days, often weeks at a time, leaving the women to hold down the fort, raise the children, etc. etc. It's called division of labor.
Oh, FFS, enough of the virtue signalling. I didn't mention gender at all, and if digging IS "men's work," then surely the digging connected with constructing the canal or chute belongs to them. The point is, there is an abundant source of above-ground fresh water RIGHT THERE next to the settlement, and redirecting it would take less work than sounding and digging wells.
It may be fresh water, but it's not nearly the same as drinkable ground water. Where you getting the water filtration? Hey yeah, let's build it ourselves, not like nature already did it for us.
Yeah, well in MY settlement, we'd have ample supplies of potable water simply by melting the ice, like the Innuit have done for centuries, and, quite frankly, like the Icelandic people have done for centuries as well. If you really think that it's simpler to dig wells when you have two above ground sources of fresh water, then the people of my settlement are going to plunder the crap out of you and take all of your women--and they will thank us.
