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[T600]

So, what are some fun and useful things to do with water? In all the forts I have created I have yet to make a screw pump or anything.. I want to utilize all that fun mechanical stuff because I feel like I am missing out because I only build flood gates and attach levers to them.. I want to play with other mechanical fun stuff. Like I want to make a drowning chamber, and create drainage and all that other fun stuff.

So any ideas on basic fun things you can do with water?

[Demonic Spoon]

• Drown elves.
• Make a obsidian farm
• Make a waterfall in the middle of your dining room to make happy thought mist for you dwarves, there absolutely no danger of the waterfall flooding your fortress, none at all. <.< >.>
• Make a elaborate fountain that shoots water hundreds of urists into the sky!
• Drown more elves
• Set up a elaborate doomsday device to flood your fort, intentionally this time I mean.
• Utilize fluid logic or whatever it is called these days to make a computer that can calculate and tell the time and all sorts of neat and nifty stuff, oh wait you already have one or how are you playing dwarf fortress and posting on the internet? ...moving on.
• Drown all of elfdom in the purifying flameswaves!
• Upgrade to magma cos it's way cooler.

[Altaree]

Drowning trap
water fall
dwarf washing
if you have an underground river or pool, tower cap farming.
venice like canals
moat
obsidian making (really, you need more rocks?!?)
Your own private fishery
a series of water-7 pressure plates hooked to flood gates can be used to make a time delay device.

[Radivnal]

My last fortress used water for several things (the water came from a brook.)

-First and foremost was a moat. (The overall fortress design was an above-ground castle whose center held a staircase going straight down into the earth for about 15 z-levels). They're really easy to do so long as you do them on the surface.

-Second, a "flush" system for my trade depot. This one is a little bit more complicated and involved plumbing, plus a floor hatch, plus four floodgates and three sets of vertical bars. Essentially, the elven traders enter the depot and start setting up, at which time the three floodgates at the entrance to the room shut and the fourth gate which opens up to the moat also shuts. The floor hatch in the ceiling opens up and water pours in from above until everything is dead...then the fourth gate opens again and the bars keep items from draining out while the water empties into the moat.

-Third, plumbing so my arena could be converted on-the-fly into a stadium/drowning chamber. (similar concept to 2)

-Fourth, artificial waterfalls in statue gardens and/or dining halls. If done incorrectly this can go so horribly wrong that you won't have to worry about dwarves needing happy thoughts...ever. But if done correctly, this alone can deflect whatever impending tantrum spirals that a really nice dining hall can't.


...and yeah, Spoon pretty much beat me to most of the stuff.

[wallie79r]

Step 1, Read up on assume you know how water pressure and flow work, make traps involving pressurized water.
Step 2, Goblins! Nobles! Elves! Friends!
Step 3, Activate the traps.
Step 4, Watch the chaos. Wonder how you managed to set the surface of the world on fire with water.

[Demonic Spoon]

By adding alcohol of course! Everything is better with alcohol...and magma.

[Psieye]

For a time I had an obsession with trying to teach my dwarves to swim, using a swimming pool. Now in DF2010 I may consider some sort of shower room using a burrow so that I can order all my messy dwarves to get a little cleaned up when I feel it's needed. Cleanliness prevents infections afterall.

[Peewee]

Water slide into a 50+ z-level drop

[Yiab]

Moat Dome (two large domes with water in between. This was a heck of a lot of fun to make, then waiting 2 years for it to finish filling from a brook. Make sure you build in floodgates at ground level so you can release enough pressurized water to flood the map with the flip of a lever, then watch your frame rate drop to around 1 (per minute).

[darkrider2]

utilize water pressure every way you can, it's a really neat feature and it makes you feel real smart when you do it.

[dwarfguy2]

hook it up to a flaming

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and make a steampunk fort.