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[Hiul]

is there a way to create buildable aquifer only from the raw ?
something like waterwell from masterwork but purely from raw modification is it possible ? for me its fine with one buildable wall that create aquifer which is more simple heck even create magma if it possible too.
because pumping to create waterfall is really confusing and to much effort for me.

[FantasticDorf]

Unfortunately not, because aquifiers do not have any associated tags other than [AQUIFER] on them.

For example, this material template for loam, a soil type close to the surface where aquifers are often found.

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[INORGANIC:LOAM]
[USE_MATERIAL_TEMPLATE:SOIL_TEMPLATE]
[STATE_NAME_ADJ:ALL_SOLID:loam][DISPLAY_COLOR:6:7:0][TILE:176]
[SOIL][AQUIFER]   <------ This just tells the game it CAN have a aquifer when the conditions are right to spawn one.
[SOLID_DENSITY:1410]
Purely from raw's wouldn't be possible im afraid, pumping is much easier when you understand what your doing.

• the main thing with pumping water is to know where its going to go and that water will be sucked *up* and put in the level where you are pumping & only the height it is being pumped at. So you could easily drown a room if you put the pump into a hole in the wall 1 z level above the floor, the pump end counts as a solid object & wont leak water.

                                                         _________________________________________________________
                              Pump is here         Up to this height.                                                                                  (Z level 2)
Water goes up ^^                      ^^water falls down into bottom and builds up to the level its being pumped ^^  (Z level 1)

So if you have pumps feeding other pumps like passing a bucket up a ladder with each person picking it up and passing it upwards, you can move things like lava all the way from the centre of the earth to the surface via pump stacks (which can be automated so no dwarves are harmed)

[IndigoFenix]

You can, however, make a workshop with a reaction that automatically causes dwarves to fill up any empty buckets with water.  If you place this workshop near a pit designated as a pool, dwarves will quickly fill the pool using water from the shop.  You can then deconstruct or forbid the shop to stop them filling buckets.

There is also a way to produce a few tiles worth of lava using a workshop with a reaction that creates lava which is released when the workshop burns down (make sure the shop is made of non magma safe materials, or the only way to get the lava out will be to deconstruct it, killing the worker).

My Rise of the Mushroom Kingdom uses both; the "warp pipe to the water world" and "lava pit", respectively.

[Hiul]

hmm so its impossible 
thanks for the solution and the explanation guys.
the warp pipe to the water world and lava pit look interesting though.