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Stopkilling0

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Didn't catch anything; activate dwarf !
« on: October 25, 2012, 10:06:26 pm »

SO.
My elaborate ocean creature catching basin didnt quite work out the way I intended. Actually I never even caught one fish, the dam spotted ratfish just "didn't feel like it" I guess.
So I drained the ocean off the edge of the map through a fortification, all the way down to the lowest level.
I caught a salmon! SUCCESS  :D

Seriously though, I read some posts about draining oceans into aquifers, but I was wondering, if you drain an ocean large/long enough, if you abandon and then go to embark select, could you possible drain the entire body of water!? Like, on the world map?!
« Last Edit: October 25, 2012, 10:08:19 pm by Stopkilling0 »
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Azated

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Re: Didn't catch anything; activate dwarf !
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2012, 10:32:29 pm »

Each embark tile is separate from the entire world, with a few minor exceptions. In other words, you can't drain the entire worlds supply of water into an aquifer unless you went through every single tile and did it manually, and even then it would have absolutely no effect on the world outside your embark.
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Then it happened. Then I cringed. Then I picked it up and beat him to death with it, and then his buddies, too.
You beat a man to death with his dick?

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Re: Didn't catch anything; activate dwarf !
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2012, 10:33:40 pm »

what if you went to that fort in adventure mode?
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Stopkilling0

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Re: Didn't catch anything; activate dwarf !
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2012, 07:58:19 am »

what if you went to that fort in adventure mode?
I should try this
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