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[Benitosimies]

If you dig a big old waterworks reaching 11 levels under your brook and controlled with hatches and somewhere along the way you dig yourself some underground water channels to give yourself a well and some water clear down there, and one level below that you've put a channel at the bottom of an underground pond to use later, and then you build a lot of channels to give yourself a 1 deep flood in a 19 x 24 field...

When you dig the last square between the channels and all the water in your waterworks, it really comes out. Like it fills a 1 x 17 section of corridor in one "step".

Poor miner drowned immediately. And he was a square beyond the floodgate so there was no saving him if he couldn't move a single square. And he couldn't. That also means no burial I guess. Or recovering his cool Steel Pick.

Drowned sod

One level above

But holy crap I thought it would go slower than that.

It's all from a running brook btw.

[numerobis]

Yeah; water just teleports.  It's kind of amazing to watch.

You can go a dozen or so tiles while drowning though (but, unless you're trained in swimming, you can't swim up), so, as long as there's a path to safety, your minor would have gotten out.

[Hyperturtle]

Well, I dug a farm next to the regular river, but underground, and the soil was actually.. soil, so I didn't have to water it.  But I dug a stairway down a ways into my mine and flooded the crap out of everything anyway, because I wanted to.

i was already suffering at 17fps and by the time all of my excavation and water release was done, I was down to 5/6fps and gave up.  What was your fps like before you told the little dwarf boy to remove his finger from the dike?