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[Wolfius]

i was a tad annoyed cos when i was building a well from a brook i thought to make it fun id dig a shaft to the bottom z-level from the brook then dig a shaft up to my fortress at the same level as the brook and put the wells on top of that. For some reason the water only went up to the z-level below the brook so i couldnt build wells there - i had to just dig a tunnel from the brook to the well to get the water to the right well.

Odd.

However, empty space between the well and the water doesn't matter, iirc. There could be ten z-levels of empty pit, but so long as the well had water below it it should work.

[Derakon]

Toady mentioned in an article somewhere that when balancing water across U-shaped tunnels, he doesn't make things perfectly even, to prevent water from continually bouncing back and forth.

[Randominality]

i was a tad annoyed cos when i was building a well from a brook i thought to make it fun id dig a shaft to the bottom z-level from the brook then dig a shaft up to my fortress at the same level as the brook and put the wells on top of that. For some reason the water only went up to the z-level below the brook so i couldnt build wells there - i had to just dig a tunnel from the brook to the well to get the water to the right well.

Odd.

However, empty space between the well and the water doesn't matter, iirc. There could be ten z-levels of empty pit, but so long as the well had water below it it should work.

thats what it said on the wiki so at first i thought it wouldnt matter, but it wouldnt let me place the well until i had dug the direct tunnel. essentially there was a large colomn of water then on the z-level above an open space with water listed as well, then on the z-level above that it was just "open space" with no hint that there was water below so it wouldnt let me build the well