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Fist_Of_Armok

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Help! Need water in a tundra fortress!
« on: December 22, 2008, 03:36:06 pm »
My noble/hunter got his stupid ass wounded, and, of course, me being in a tundra, I have no water to give him.

What can I do? Anything?

...He's going to die, isn't he.
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Re: Help! Need water in a tundra fortress!
« Reply #1 on: December 22, 2008, 03:39:14 pm »
If you have an aquifer, that can be used as a water source.  There is a high tendency among tundra forts to have aquifers.
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Re: Help! Need water in a tundra fortress!
« Reply #2 on: December 22, 2008, 03:42:08 pm »
It didn't mention it on embarkation.

And the constant "Dorf McDorfison cancels Give Water: No Water Source" is getting irritating.
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Re: Help! Need water in a tundra fortress!
« Reply #3 on: December 22, 2008, 04:09:09 pm »
If the message spam is getting to you, you could just drown the wounded hunte....oh, wait...

(And yes, your dwarf is going to die.  Unless you have magma and ice.  Or an underground water source.)
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Quote from: Footkerchief on November 01, 2008, 02:04:30 pm
Also, you can manufacture vomit at a smelter.  Subsequently removing the smelter spews vomit over a surprising area.

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Re: Help! Need water in a tundra fortress!
« Reply #4 on: December 22, 2008, 04:10:35 pm »
He did.

Is there any way to check the particulars of your fortress once you've already embarked?
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Re: Help! Need water in a tundra fortress!
« Reply #5 on: December 22, 2008, 04:48:31 pm »
1) Extract seed information from world.  (I'm told this can be done without copying the save, abandoning, and going into legends mode, but I've never done it any other way)
2) Regen the world with the seed info.
3) Go to embark at the same spot.
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Quote from: Footkerchief on November 01, 2008, 02:04:30 pm
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Re: Help! Need water in a tundra fortress!
« Reply #6 on: December 23, 2008, 05:34:33 am »
Alternative .... if the question is "how do I find out what this location has to offer?":
Save the fort, backup the save
Start the game
Run reveal.exe

http://www.dwarffortresswiki.net/index.php/Utilities#Reveal
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