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[LesBrisant]

So I was just curious if I've ended up finding a magma pipe. I was browsing my units list to see if my little dwarves were all happy but then I noticed there were a whole heap of fire imps and other miscellaneous lovely little murderous critters listed. I zoomed to it and there's a big ol' hole filled with Magma. Is this the magma pipe? I'm not totally sure 'cause I assumed that was more what the pool would look like. It goes down several levels but it's a big circle rather than a "pipe" as I imagined.

EDIT: While I'm here... Is there anyway to move rocks from one region without a pile? I want to zone a pond but there happens to be a large amount of rocks and stones in the way.

[Siquo]

Magma-Pipes are vertical pipes. If it goes down all the way to the lowest level, it's probably a pipe. If it doesn't, it's a pool. The main difference is that pipes slowly refill, and pools don't.

You can move large areas of rock with d-b-d (dump). If you've zoned a garbage-zone somewhere, all rocks will be piled by your dwarves in that garbage-zone. This way, one tile can hold an unlimited number of rocks, which is considered 'cheating' by some. A pond-bottom does not need to be clear of stones, though, and d-b-h hides the stones, if it's just an esthetical issue.

[LesBrisant]

Edit: EPIC DOI,

You need to press f to set it to be a pond...

[Siquo]

That, too   

[Albedo]

From any single level, a "pipe" and "pool" look the same - a big circle of magma about 20-30 tiles across. The diff is that a pipe goes all the way to the lowest level and refills - with a pool, what you see is all you got.

Read wiki, "pipe". (might be a disambiguation, but you'll get where you need to.)


And, yeah, zoning has nothing to do with any rocks in the way (unless the "rock" is forming a wall and there's no path - then any zone is kinda useless).

[LesBrisant]

Bit of a bump here but it's preferable to more threads...

If I want to irrigate a region by using the zoning method, do I really _need_ to channel above the region and then zone the water or can I just tell the dwarves to throw it all over the place? 

[Albedo]

Has to be a "pit", in theory to become a pool (tho' you'll stop long before that). So you either build up, or dig down.

[LesBrisant]

Okay, thanks for that anyway then.

While I'm here...

Is there anyway to make the finder search for locations that have sand? Or at least to show all locations that have a certain feature I want so I can manually check to see if they have sand?

[Albedo]

No to sand (altho' there are some 3rd party utilities that might - lots of stuff being designed. See wiki "utility" and the modding subforum.)

(Newbies should be aware that "loamy sand" and "sandy loam" etc are NOT "SAND".  It has to say "<color> Sand".)

You can turn features on/off in init.txt. (See wiki, "init" for full discussion).  Once you have your embark map, each different biome (1/area block, 48x48 game tiles square) will be shown via the different F# keys - F1, F2, F3, etc.  If sand is present, they'll show it specifically.