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[Iapetus]

As detailed in one of my previous threds, my current fortress has been having serious trouble with carp (#1 cause of death, at least until one siege went particularly badly wrong, and a goblin mace-lord got inside the fortress.


Until finally, frustrated by the constant fishy genocide, I resolved to drain the Armok-damned river!


BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!


Who's laughing now, eh, carp?

Oh - sorry - you can't answer because you're all dead!


I'm currently building a drawbridge on the river-bed at the inflow end of the river, so I can turn the river on and off at will.

[QuakeIV]

As detailed in one of my previous threds, my current fortress has been having serious trouble with carp (#1 cause of death, at least until one siege went particularly badly wrong, and a goblin mace-lord got inside the fortress.


Until finally, frustrated by the constant fishy genocide, I resolved to drain the Armok-damned river!


BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!


Who's laughing now, eh, carp?

Oh - sorry - you can't answer because you're all dead!


I'm currently building a drawbridge on the river-bed at the inflow end of the river, so I can turn the river on and off at will.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA

[Lord Dakoth]

As detailed in one of my previous threds, my current fortress has been having serious trouble with carp (#1 cause of death, at least until one siege went particularly badly wrong, and a goblin mace-lord got inside the fortress.


Until finally, frustrated by the constant fishy genocide, I resolved to drain the Armok-damned river!


BWAHAHAHAHA!!!!


Who's laughing now, eh, carp?

Oh - sorry - you can't answer because you're all dead!


I'm currently building a drawbridge on the river-bed at the inflow end of the river, so I can turn the river on and off at will.

BAHAHAHAHAHAHHAAAAA

BwahahahhahaaaahahaaaaahahaaaAAACKKK HACK HACK *snort* GAAAHHHGH *choke choke* Hey what, where's the discussion?

You should post screens so that we can see it. Would've been nicer if you had uploaded a video, though.

For the record, next time you need to trap all the carp in a special reservoir and then ENCASE THEM IN OBSIDIAN

[Iapetus]

You should post screens so that we can see it. Would've been nicer if you had uploaded a video, though.

For the record, next time you need to trap all the carp in a special reservoir and then ENCASE THEM IN OBSIDIAN

Probably wouldn't have made a good video, as it took me a long time to work out the best way of draining the river (I ended up using several different methods), and the whole thing took a while. 

I might post some screens later though, just to show my draining system (unfortunately I haven't got any of the riverbed when it was strewn with named carp corpses and the weapons, armour and clothes of deceased dwarves).

[shadowclasper]

Erm... wouldn't the water pressure bake it so that in the end, you'd end up having water flow up and around the bridge?

[Grendus]

Rivers currently aren't pressurized, they flow because one end spawns water and the other drains it. Later this won't work,we'll have to reroute the rivers rather than just damming them, but for now it works just fine.

[Quietust]

Actually, rivers are pressurized, though it only becomes obvious if water is entering the map edge more quickly than it's draining off the other end or if you've prevented it from draining at all (i.e. by building a dam). In any event, said pressure doesn't go up past the original Z-level of the water source, so rivers won't overflow their dams unless you build the dam downstream of a waterfall.