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[Shrugging Khan]

1. Drain Ocean
2. Drain Magma Sea
3. Refill Ocean with Magma
4. Refill Magma Sea with Water
5.
6. FUN!

[CapnUrist]

Awesome, thanks. Putting together the draining method now.

EDIT: Holy crap, a draining ocean is a scary sight.

Pics or it didn't happen.

Pics wouldn't do it justice.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Are any visualizers up to 31.18 compatibility?

Also, you could have simply obsidianized a ring around the ocean and pumped it out, then dug out a single tile when ready to refill.

[CapnUrist]

@Urist Imiknorris: Oddly enough, that's exactly what I'm doing.

As for visualizers, Overseer doesn't render water, and I don't think Stonesense is up to date yet.

[Xenos]

Emptying the ocean through a fortification drain is slow.

Emptying the ocean using Dwarven Fire is faster.

Emptying the ocean into an aquifer is instantaneous.

I was under the impression that it was all but instantaneous.  Meaning that it was nearly instant but not quite there.

[CapnUrist]

Water takes time to flow. My ocean was draining for a year with no sign of it actually emptying so now I drop back to the age-old answer.

magma.

[Xenos]

Water takes time to flow. My ocean was draining for a year with no sign of it actually emptying so now I drop back to the age-old answer.

magma.

Make it drain vertically into an aquifer.  marvel at the speed with which it drains.

[Urist Imiknorris]

Marvel as it takes five minutes and five frames to empty the ocean.

[kapusta]

Hmm, I think I already know the answer to this one, but suppose you permanently drain a patch of ocean and abandon. Now, those tiles will not be marked as embarkable (i.e. will still be marked as ocean) the next time you attempt to embark in the same place, right?