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[Ruttiger]

Does this mean if I build a floodgate on the square that connected the murky pool to my failed U-bend the pool would start to refill? 

It would be slow going, but that would be a decent supply.  In fact, I could attach each natural pool to the cistern via a floodgate and pumps to help produce more water per rain. 

[Andir]

It would be a hell of a timing issue to get it to dump just a bit of the water into a cistern, but it's possible.  I tried this once with a switch to automate it but the mechanics weren't fast enough to skim just 3 water from the pool when it hit 7.  It might work better with a bigger pool.

[Hyndis]

Does this mean if I build a floodgate on the square that connected the murky pool to my failed U-bend the pool would start to refill? 

It would be slow going, but that would be a decent supply.  In fact, I could attach each natural pool to the cistern via a floodgate and pumps to help produce more water per rain. 

Murky pools refill with rain, but the amount of rainfall and how long the pools last depends on the climate. If you have a few pools and are very clever with rigging a cistern, you can actually collect quite an impressive amount of water from even meager rainfall.

[Shoku]

To me it seemed like the murky pools just went 7/7 each spring- the closest thing I've seen to rain filling them were a few 1's on what used to be empty but those evaporate pretty easily.

You could build a U tube twisted though so that you had a nice shaft for the water to drop down and then you could remove the pressure with the other arm of the U being horizontal and connect by a diagonal- then you'd have easy low-height pump access that you could fill an underground chamber with, perhaps one level a season.

*for some reason I wrote that thinking something like "I wanna do this without permanently emptying the pool."

[Heron TSG]

Easy.


-----___---------___-----
DDDXDDDDDDDDXDDD
DDDCDDDDDDDDCDDD
DDDCDDDDDDDDCDDD
DDD|                     |DDD
DDD|                     |DDD
DDD|     Cistern     |DDD
DDD|                     |DDD
DDD|_____ _____|DDD

D= undug
top pits= pools
X= floodgates
C=Channel

[Volfram]

Easy.

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--___------___--
DDDXDDDDDDDDXDDD
DDDCDDDDDDDDCDDD
DDDCDDDDDDDDCDDD
DDD|        |DDD
DDD|        |DDD
DDD|Cistern |DDD
DDD|        |DDD
DDD|____ ___|DDD

D= undug
top pits= pools
X= floodgates
C=Channel


Protip: [ code ] tags are your friend.

[Heron TSG]

I did that, but it gave me weird spacing amounts. all of the D's were way out of position.

well, if it works for you?

[Volfram]

The forum edit box doesn't use a fixed-width font.  I copied it over to Notepad, which has Lucida Console(fixed-width font) set.  Makes all the spacing turn out nice.

An alternative would be to switch your font to Courier, which is what's displayed inside the [ code ] tags

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