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Xonara

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Infinite fish!
« on: July 08, 2008, 03:30:44 am »
I may have found a really useful exploit. I've noticed that when water is pumped from aquifers, fish come out too, strangely. In theory, it could be possible to pump a crap load of water onto a grate and sit back and let the fish pile up!  ;D
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Andir

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Re: Infinite fish!
« Reply #1 on: July 08, 2008, 06:57:53 am »
I'd have to test it, but I don't think the fish are pumped.  It's just that fish "spawn" in water filled areas.  If you had a floor grate draining the room constantly, the fish would probably never "spawn" there.  If you had a pump pumping water into a one tile area with a wall grate to let water out, the fish might spawn there, but they would "vanish" after a while.  I'm not 100% sure on this though.
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Re: Infinite fish!
« Reply #2 on: July 08, 2008, 01:52:17 pm »
Meh, they spawned pretty quickly so it sorta looked like they were coming from the aquifer. Either way, I have to try this some time  8)
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Re: Infinite fish!
« Reply #3 on: July 09, 2008, 01:33:23 am »
Well then just pump the water into a tank with a floor hatch in the bottom that leads to a grate,when full open the hatch and away goes the water and you should have a bunch of floppin fish around!
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Re: Infinite fish!
« Reply #4 on: July 15, 2008, 05:41:59 am »
Can the fish be collected for processing thou?
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Re: Infinite fish!
« Reply #5 on: July 15, 2008, 06:01:37 am »
Quote from: Cajoes on July 15, 2008, 05:41:59 am
Can the fish be collected for processing thou?

Methinks thou hast a good point. Yon fish may well expire and hence produce naught but vile odoriferous purple clouds. Mayhap excavating a pond and extricating thine piscine morsels the traditional way is more advantageous. Forsooth.


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Re: Infinite fish!
« Reply #6 on: July 15, 2008, 07:13:57 am »
Sadly, the fish that you see on the screen are actually vermin. You can't catch them. They appear and disappear as they wish, just like the land-based vermin that randomly show up in your perfectly sealed fortress, having somehow traversed a lava moat, three layers of traps, and lots of stairways.

If you ever get some of these vermin-fish in shallow water, you can watch your fortress cats go and kill them. Left behind are not usable dead fish, but rather little purple squiggles of rotting refuse.
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