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i2amroy

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Re: Understanding Aquifer
« Reply #15 on: November 22, 2011, 10:58:20 am »
Just make sure that you do, in fact, build constructed walls around your shaft to protect your staircase. Else wise when summer hits you are going to have a very serious flooding problem on your hands.
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Re: Understanding Aquifer
« Reply #16 on: November 22, 2011, 12:07:12 pm »
The most fun with frozen aquifer is using the mined ice to build the retaining wall and stairs through the aquifer layers, as a constructed wall of ice never melts.

When you have a volcano, using magma + water = obsidian is a fun way to breach the aquifer, but by far the most time consuming.
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Re: Understanding Aquifer
« Reply #17 on: November 22, 2011, 02:08:25 pm »
Yeah, that's what I meant. Didn't explain it as well as though I had.

If you have a Volcano, you probably don't have to punch through the Aquifer, since it tends to dry up around the volcano.
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