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Rock_n_Rat

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Instant flooding??
« on: May 01, 2009, 12:52:16 pm »
So like im doing irrigation mining using a underground river in a mountain...but when i opened up wall for the water to come out. it came out instantly, like maybe 10 frames. my miner who was try to escape the madness opened the door i had set up and it instantly flooded my whole floor O_o

is this some new thing or a glitch?
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Re: Instant flooding??
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2009, 01:11:06 pm »
Water pressure.
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Albedo

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Re: Instant flooding??
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2009, 03:13:19 pm »
Dwarfs.  And water pressure.

Maybe you've heard similar stories - easy to do, huh?

I never use the same tunnel system for escape that I use for tapping magma or water - too many things can go wrong.  When possible, I dig an entirely separate tunnel system, or have locked doors/hatches, or just build walls, separating the two paths.  Positive.  And I still can never trust it completely when it gets tapped.

Did you tap part of the river below an underground waterfall? A river from a waterfall has pressure up to the top of the waterfall - call that a bug, but it's a known one.
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Re: Instant flooding??
« Reply #3 on: May 04, 2009, 09:26:38 am »
alright sorry its takin me so long to reply...
i found the fix for it was to build a system of doors

Hole into the underground pool > door> door > door

going through all the doors let the pressure get less because it wasnt connected to the pool
anyway, it worked! thanks for the help!
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