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Author Topic: Fluid logic question: water depths as display (8/7 water and magma evap to 7/7)  (Read 3848 times)

kurokikaze

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Re: Fluid logic question: water depths as display
« Reply #30 on: October 28, 2009, 09:39:45 am »
Still, if evaporation takes about a year, this possibly can be used as a display, though short-living.
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Re: Fluid logic question: water depths as display
« Reply #31 on: October 28, 2009, 09:56:34 am »
Evaporation of 150+ tiles of magma at 1/7 and 2/7 took about a year.  It takes excessively long when there's some 2/7 in the mix.

Likely evaporation of 8/7 takes the same amount of time as evaporation of 1/7, which can be anywhere between instant and "I'm tired of waiting for this damned water to evaporate already!"
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Re: Fluid logic question: water depths as display
« Reply #32 on: October 28, 2009, 10:03:03 am »
Guess I'll eat my hat now.
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Re: Fluid logic question: water depths as display
« Reply #33 on: October 28, 2009, 10:18:50 am »
Quote from: Shoku on October 27, 2009, 10:34:23 am
Quote from: Sizik on October 27, 2009, 10:21:04 am
Quote from: Shakma on October 26, 2009, 08:44:10 am
Quote from: Sizik on October 23, 2009, 07:24:07 pm
Quote from: Shakma on October 23, 2009, 08:32:51 am
I know magma doesn't.

Yes it does.

No it doesn't.

I've spent over a year trying to fill up a 43x43x2 room with magma, and when it gets to a certain point, the magma hits an equilibrium and doesn't fill up anymore. The only way I could get it filled was to have more magma pumped in from another side.

Several people misunderstand what we're talking about.

Magma evaporates the same as water, we all know this.
We're talking about two levels of magma, with the top one being 1/7 and the lower obviously being 7/7. The top layer will not evaporate, it's only 1/7 on top of ground that does that. We are talking about an 8/7 column of whichever fluid.

I've done glacial forts with large cisterns and rerouted underground rivers and all manner of things (well, I haven't made a freeze-trap in an actual fort but I've helped design one.)The water knows what's on the level below it.

But ya, if people need to test it themselves make yourself a little pond full 7/7 and then dump a single bucket on it so you've got a 1/7 zipping around on the second layer. It will do so for the rest of your fort if it's undisturbed.


I am talking about 8/7 magma. The first level fills up fine, as the 1/7 magma stays put. The second level never fills, because as the magma becomes 8/7, it slides around all over the place, and eventually evaporates.
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Re: Fluid logic question: water depths as display (8/7 water and magma evap to 7/7)
« Reply #34 on: October 28, 2009, 02:53:57 pm »
They stop doing dump jobs to "pond" a place when when it's 7/7 one level down so he couldn't have been talking about a 1/7 zipping around at the level of the pond zone. From what I've gathered here his described pond was 2 or more levels deep and the 1/7 zips around on top of other magma with all walls blocking it.
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