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randyshipp

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Floodgate status?
« on: April 21, 2011, 10:13:00 pm »
How can I easily tell if a floodgate is open or closed?  I don't see any difference when I look at them with {k}, and they don't seem to have a {q} menu. 
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krenshala

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Re: Floodgate status?
« Reply #1 on: April 21, 2011, 10:14:47 pm »
If you floodgate is closed you can see it on the map (the [X] tile).  If the gate is open however, the tile will only show the floor, or water/magma if those substances are now flowing through the open gate. :D
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Re: Floodgate status?
« Reply #2 on: April 21, 2011, 10:20:27 pm »
it should probably also be mentioned that you can only open a floodgate by means of a lever attached with a mechanism.
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randyshipp

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Re: Floodgate status?
« Reply #3 on: April 21, 2011, 10:31:34 pm »
Thanks very much.
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krenshala

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Re: Floodgate status?
« Reply #4 on: April 21, 2011, 10:45:48 pm »
No problem. :D

By the way, from personal experience I recommend both reading over the wiki on mechanisms/trap components, and actually building stuff in game to test out how it works.  Don't actually include the water/magma until after you think you've got a handle on what will happen, or you'll get to enjoy some unexpected !!fun!!  ;)
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Zepave Dawnhogs the Butterfly of Vales the Marsh Titan ... was taken out by a single novice axedwarf and his pet war kitten. Long Live Domas Etasastesh Adilloram, slayer of the snow butterfly!
Doesn't quite have the ring of heroics to it...
Mother: "...and after the evil snow butterfly was defeated, Domas and his kitten lived happily ever after!"
Kids: "Yaaaay!"

randyshipp

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Re: Floodgate status?
« Reply #5 on: April 21, 2011, 11:08:02 pm »
I'm certainly doing both of those things.  The entry for floodgate doesn't include this information.  Anyway, I now see a problem with my setup that I won't be able to fix until the next winter freeze 9 months from now.  There's a small plant on the square with the floodgate (how the hell does THAT grow there?), so I'll have to dig out the ice, tear up the floodgate, build a floor there or something, then reinstall the floodgate for the next thaw.  And to think...I'm just trying to drain a damn moat with a floodgate at the drain end and a floodgate at the fill end.  I totally understand how it's supposed to work, I just didn't expect a seedling to screw it up.
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