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[Bloodyharbinger]

So lets say that I get water pumped up and run down a channel and into an exposed aquifer. Will that overflow or be absorbed by the aquifer water?

[vanatteveldt]

Yes, aquifers can absorb infinite water as well as create it.

[Uggh]

What about items or creatures that get swept into an aquifer? Do they disappear?

[Garath]

no. it only absorbs water

[Lich180]

They may have a hard time getting back out, though. A simple grate over the exposed aquifer tile will allow the water to drain and anything to path over without getting trapped / drowning.

[Bloodyharbinger]

Thanks for your help. I have a map with broken aquifer on different z-levels so i opened one up and made an internal waterfall that drained into another. Quick and easy mist generator.

[slothen]

yes aquifers can be pretty awesome.

[vanatteveldt]

Yeah, especially the draining function is useful for internal plumbing. Draining into the edge through fortifications feels exploity and sometimes causes a backlog. It's a shame that aquifers are generally not available below your fortress.... I guess I should start using the caverns as a drain more...

[i2amroy]

Yeah, especially the draining function is useful for internal plumbing. Draining into the edge through fortifications feels exploity and sometimes causes a backlog. It's a shame that aquifers are generally not available below your fortress.... I guess I should start using the caverns as a drain more...

Unless you are very careful using the caverns is a very quick way to get very large lags. Remember that the game has to do additional processing for each additional tile of water that is 6/7 or lower, so the less piping you need the better. Personally I would rather design a closed system (such as a mist generator) before I used the caverns as a drain.

If you are willing to use bridges to carry the water all of the way to the map edge then the caverns work just fine though.

[Garath]

iirc you can atom smash water too, so maybe you don't need a flow to the edge of the map

[slothen]

iirc you can atom smash water too, so maybe you don't need a flow to the edge of the map

  you can also put doors (no delay) on a level and set it to repeat to smash water very efficiently.