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[Truec]

Reading through the wiki indicates ways to move power down, and I managed that, but it mentions nothing about moving it up.  Nothing I've tried has managed to move it up either.  Am I missing something, or can it just not be done?

[andrea]

gear assemblys on top of each other. or if it is more than 1 z level then gear, vertical axles as much as needed, and then gear again

[Hoborobo234]

Yes, haven't you ever seen the water tower. i am currently pumping out an underground area that i flooded with water from a river, my bad.

[martinuzz]

And don't forget to channel out the squares first, or it won't work.
Then build bottom - up

[Areyar]

Things that use power (such as pumps) also convey power.
so, to avoid powerloss from gears etc, I usually try to build mine in a vertical stack.

This also means, that you do not need gears to convey power between pumps etc. Only when power needs to go around a corner.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

you can build a system like this without gears:

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~~,,,,,,,,,
~~,,,,....,
~w,,,,^==v,
~W====^,,v,
~w,,,,~,,.,
~~~~~~~,,,,
Altough the second pump is quite superfluous, it's added to show power transfer through machines.
note: the most usefull feature of screws (pumping water UP) is not used here, so this is more an example of a desalinationplant if anything.

[toast]

there is a great image in the wikie under "screw pump" that shows you how to make a tower.

otherwise use gears for one level, axels for multiple.

[Truec]

Thought I'd had that covered, turned out I was trying to put the gear into the square next to the one I channeled.  That explains a lot.  Pity it didn't work the way I'd hoped, although now I could probably turn half my map into a lake if I turn on both screw pumps.

[ShadeJS]

Things that use power (such as pumps) also convey power.
so, to avoid powerloss from gears etc, I usually try to build mine in a vertical stack.

This also means, that you do not need gears to convey power between pumps etc. Only when power needs to go around a corner.

The stack is king, the stack is Armok. A simple scree pump stack goes:

Level 1:
Solid (Soon to be wet)
Solid (Solid bit of pump)
Solid (Passable bit of pump)
Chasm (Water under here)

Level 2:
Chasm (Water from fist pump)
Solid (Passable bit of pump)
Chasm (Solid bit of pump & Power transfer)
Solid (Soon to be wet)

Level 3:
Reverse Level  2

Level 4:
Same as level 2

Repeat.

You have to hook this to a power source.

Remember, one pump sucks a heck of a lot of water. I have an underground river, that fed a big room via 3 (1 tile wide) access pipes, and one pump sucks the room dry enough that I can cut tower caps in there.

My current fort transfers power from a windmill array down to a pump stack above that room, then transfers power to another pump stack that takes the water up a waterfall tower (That is located to make mist near my entrance), the runoff from that fills the bottom z-level of my upper moat (more waterfalls), that then drains into my lower moat (more waterfalls), the currently drains into a dwarf made stream (more waterfalls).