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[shadowclasper]

Trying a new idea. I'm trying to make it so that I get mist in my fantastic dining hall. One hitch. Every attempt so far has ended up with the room starting to flood, or atleast that's how it appears. There's channels into the water-shaft below that leads to my dining room well. I'm thinking that if I channel out some stairs leading to the river LOWER. Then water flow will result in the water being taken away from the water falls, rather than piling up out of the lower level and spreading about.

Other things I need to check: Do bars cause splashing? (thus muddying my room)
If so, do statues block the passage of mist.
If not, do they prevent the surrounding area from getting muddy due to splashing?
Does the muddiness even matter really?

[Sphalerite]

Water that flows into a well doesn't vanish, so yes, you need an outflow from the system to a drain somewhere.

Muddyness only really matters if you have breached an underground pool or river, in which case muddy tiles may have plants grow on them.

[Aspgren]

You want a mist generator then.

On the floor above the dining room, build pumps and channels. above them, a windmill or something.
The mist generator will look like this:

HPH
PMP
HPH

h = channel. p = pump. M = motor.

Get the pumps working and while they're cracking at high speed, designate one of the channels as a pond - the dwarves will fill it with water (not sure how much you need but even one bucket will be sufficient) and when they do so, the water will be transported round-and-round-and-round ... generating mist on the floor below.

No flooding. No mud. Unless perhaps you pour more water into the system than it can handle... so de-activate the pond after a while and watch it work. You'll eventually have to activate it again so there's some micromanagement as the water disappears but it lasts a long time.

Note - i did not invent this and i have not tried it in practice. but it seems to be the easiest mist generator up to date; and of course you can make it larger if you want.

[shadowclasper]

I'll try that. Thanks. I might just do it fro my garden area instead... since it STILL has yet to cure my fortress of sickness -_-;

[Magua]

I don't know about bars, but when I run waterfalls through my dining rooms, I use floor grates, and there has been no muddying of the surrounding areas at all, and this is after four different usages. 

[Albedo]

Statues are pretty much "solid" - they block the passage of most things.

A pump pumps MUCH more water than a 1-tile drain can drain away. Try 3 or 4. Or a pump to vacuum it out more aggressively.

Always have more drainage than inflow.

[Quietust]

Statues do not block the flow of liquids - I use them in my mist generator to cut down on "dangerous terrain" cancellation spam.

[Albedo]

So you place the statues on the "outflow" tile below the pumps? Interesting - will have to try that.

[Quietust]

Pretty much - I'm basically using AncientEnemy's uber mist generator with a few minor tweaks (wind powered, different axle placement, and with a temporary shutoff pump to suck the tile of water out of the loop, plus mine goes clockwise).

[Albedo]

I knew statues were permeable to water - wasn't sure about mist.  "Makes sense", but I'm the last to rely on that (any more).