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Author Topic: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?  (Read 1511 times)

Hypcso

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Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« on: December 01, 2007, 11:39:00 pm »
I'm in the proccess of attempting to create a lake over a problematic portion of the map. I'm just about finished walling it off from the map edge ( Don't want all that water draining away now, do we? ) and the New Great Waterfall is about to be operational ( I'm digging out a 4 square long section from my Way-High-Up river to the area I wish to flood )
But i'm wondering if, once it fills up the first z level, it will begin to rise past that and flood the rest of the map? Has anybody else tried this?
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Re: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2007, 11:46:00 pm »
I don't know. If no, then it's safe. If yes, then you have YAFF (Yet Another Flooded Fortress) and we can all laugh about it.
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Re: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2007, 11:47:00 pm »
Actually my fortress would probably survive nicely, It's only connected to the outside in one spot and that's easily closed up 99% of the time.
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Re: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2007, 12:22:00 am »
Fine. If no, then it's safe. If yes, then you've created an underwater, very laggy, fortress.

It's win-win as I see it.

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Re: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2007, 12:32:00 am »
It won't overflow if you don't use pumps. I made a small lake myself, it works quite nicely as far as I've seen, although it didn't fill all the way. Since channels work fine, a lake made out of a river will as well.
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Re: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2007, 05:54:00 am »
Yeah, It's just gonna be falling down a 7 story waterfall into the new lake area.
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Re: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2007, 11:36:00 am »
After setting everything up and turning it on, I went AFK for about 30 minutes and left it running. Coming back I still see there's only a small puddle of 2/7 and 1/7 water at the bottom of the waterfall. Not quite the lake I had imagined. Ah well.
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Re: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2007, 02:33:00 pm »
Water takes a while to build up.... there may be hope yet.
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Re: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« Reply #8 on: September 25, 2010, 09:34:19 am »
Don't worry, just get some more water from the caverns.
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Re: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« Reply #9 on: September 25, 2010, 09:42:32 am »
Your lake will overflow if the source is above the lake like you have it. It's easy to fix - simply turn off the waterfall when you're done.
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Re: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« Reply #10 on: September 25, 2010, 10:20:39 am »
Quote from: Urist Imiknorris on September 25, 2010, 09:42:32 am
Your lake will overflow if the source is above the lake like you have it. It's easy to fix - simply turn off the waterfall when you're done.
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Re: Giant Dwarf made lake, Can it be done?
« Reply #11 on: September 25, 2010, 10:49:40 am »
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