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smjjames

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Botched up attempt to drain the volcano using water and need help fixing this.
« on: September 14, 2013, 12:10:49 pm »
This is my setup. I had initially tried using a single hole at the end which only made an obsidian pillar, so I decided to try having it flow off of a bridge and it still had a bit of obsidian get stuck and it did what the next few images of the next z levels below show you, which is NOT what I had intended.

I think I should have done a hole which is bordered by bridges.













So, um, help? Any way to fix this or something?
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Lalandrathon

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Re: Botched up attempt to drain the volcano using water and need help fixing this.
« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2013, 12:47:57 pm »
I'm not clear on what exactly you're trying to do here... Cap off the volcano? Get rid of the impromptu lake you made?
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smjjames

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Re: Botched up attempt to drain the volcano using water and need help fixing this.
« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2013, 01:04:58 pm »
Mainly get rid of the impromptu lake, but I'm trying again with a hole surrounded by bridges which should hopefully keep the hole from getting closed off.

Edit: Why am I even asking when I've got it figured out anyway XD
« Last Edit: September 14, 2013, 01:39:05 pm by smjjames »
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Garath

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Re: Botched up attempt to drain the volcano using water and need help fixing this.
« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2013, 03:54:59 pm »
because it's great fun looking at your attempts?
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Re: Botched up attempt to drain the volcano using water and need help fixing this.
« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2013, 04:11:44 pm »
Quote from: Garath on September 14, 2013, 03:54:59 pm
because it's great fun looking at your attempts?

I guess, lol.
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Re: Botched up attempt to drain the volcano using water and need help fixing this.
« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2013, 05:55:05 pm »
that was a serious answer, though most such things end up at the dwarf mode discussion subforum. It's always very educational and entertaining to watch other peoples attempts at, well, whatever it is they want to do. Sometimes they even succeed
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smjjames

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Re: Botched up attempt to drain the volcano using water and need help fixing this.
« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2013, 06:36:16 pm »
Yeah, I was kind of thinking this would have gone in the dwarf mode discussion section, but ah well.
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Re: Botched up attempt to drain the volcano using water and need help fixing this.
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2013, 07:17:18 pm »
How did you even get that to happen? With the water coming down like that, it should have formed obsidian and caved in before being able to reach the pipe walls.
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smjjames

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Re: Botched up attempt to drain the volcano using water and need help fixing this.
« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2013, 07:57:46 pm »
Quote from: Sutremaine on September 14, 2013, 07:17:18 pm
How did you even get that to happen? With the water coming down like that, it should have formed obsidian and caved in before being able to reach the pipe walls.

Not sure really. It started when some magma obsdianified next to a  constructed wall and it just went from there I guess. I was also not really paying close attention to what was going on with it.
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Re: Botched up attempt to drain the volcano using water and need help fixing this.
« Reply #9 on: September 14, 2013, 08:00:16 pm »
Ahh if you had a constructed wall/floor that could support the forming obsidian that would do it.  Couldnt see that on those pictures and thought your setup would be an effective way to kill your FPS on command.
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