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[polpoint]

you do it like this:

     

I started digging straight east, placing doors every couple of squares, so my dwarvers could have a chance to escape the flood if I struck the river.

I finally hit it and my dwarf ran to safety until the water receeded.

I then placed a flood gate on the piece of land that caused the flooding to begin with. (if it did not flood your tunnels when you dug it out, it probably wont flood a channel either)

After I set the floodgate to be built, I started digging out my 'farmland'

I looked at the general direction of the river and hoped that it did not suddenly open up directly to the north. Just to be careful, I did not dig the eastern most farm plot completely square.

Once I finished digging one of the plots out:

I proceeded to dig a channel almpost to the entrance of my newly built 'farmland'. I leave one square before the room opens up to place my floodgate.

Then, hopefully I have some mechanic, making mechanisims. I build a room close to all of the action and build at least 2 levers. One for the outer most floodgate(right next to the river) and the last/rest for the inner floodgates, leading to my fields.

Once you have built all of the channels, floodgates, levers, and linked all of the levers to the corresponding floodgates, open up all the floodgates.

(or if you have a bunch of stones/metal/gems etc left on your newly dug fields, and have dwarves set to pick them up;

once all dwarves have left the farming area: open the outer floodgate first, to flood the channels, then the inner floodgate to flood the rest of the rooms.
Or just finish moving the stupid stones!)

here are some more farms:

they do not need to be separate like I have them. If you wanted to, you could place all farms in one huge room (with supports)

       

[ August 17, 2006: Message edited by: polpoint ]

[ August 17, 2006: Message edited by: polpoint ]

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[ August 17, 2006: Message edited by: polpoint ]

[karnot]

Actually one lever and one floodgate are quite enough in most cases. You dont have to build another floodgate for every single room.

[Mechanoid]

quote:Originally posted by karnot:
<STRONG>Actually one lever and one floodgate are quite enough in most cases. You dont have to build another floodgate for every single room.</STRONG>

Nor canals, but you definitely need a door to prevent flooding.

[Capntastic]

Despite this being an intricate "advanced, triple field super farm", this is a pretty good way of summing it up.   Thanks!

[Aquillion]

quote:Originally posted by Mechanoid:
<STRONG> Nor canals, but you definitely need a door to prevent flooding.</STRONG>

Not at all.  Look at the above layout...  water will not flow out of a canal unless a floodgate lets it out, and a flood won't flow back up the canal to get out of the room you put it in.  So, if the only way into or out of your farm is by walking on or flowing in the (empty) canal, you won't need a door.

Of course, it can't hurt to have one as a precaution...  Doors are cheap and should be placed everywhere.

[Mechanoid]

In the last picture, it shows FOUR switches presumably for four floodgates with one canal linking them all. A terrible waste of time IMO, because all you needed to do is move the one door that's there further to the right (just before the T junction of corridor and floodgate) scrap the canal and 3 other switches/floodgates.

In fact, there's 4 switches which is equal to 4 mechanisms. 4 Floodgates, linked to the switches, so that's 8 more mechanisms, for a total of 12 mechanisms. Yet, the player could've saved 3 mechanisms by simply linking all four floodgates to just one switch.

Oh well, to each Fortress, their own creator.

[GauHelldragon]

Kind of a tangent here.. but does blood fertilize fields?

[Toady One]

It doesn't do anything right now...  as if we'd encourage you to bloody the fortress.

[FunkyWaltDogg]

Among the many things blood doesn't do is dry.  In fact, as far as I'm aware the only thing it does is spread all over your fortress as the dwarves track through it, unless you're fortunate enough to have someone clean it up before it gets too far.

[polpoint]

if you link all of the floodgates to one lever, how do you get into the farms?

[GauHelldragon]

just have 2 levers then, 1 for the main and one for the 3 rooms