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oso

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freezing water and trap components
« on: November 22, 2010, 02:27:32 am »
My lakes freeze over during the winter and right now I'm carving out a channel with a hatch over it and a pressure plate to open the hatch when the lake fills up. Will the lake re-freezing on top of my pressure plate destroy it?
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slothen

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Re: freezing water and trap components
« Reply #1 on: November 22, 2010, 03:22:38 am »
i would guess yes.  When ice/obsidian are formed, everything in that tile vanishes.
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Re: freezing water and trap components
« Reply #2 on: November 22, 2010, 03:33:59 am »



EDIT: would a floor be removed?
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Re: freezing water and trap components
« Reply #3 on: November 22, 2010, 03:47:04 am »
No, floors aren't removed. But ramps are.
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Re: freezing water and trap components
« Reply #4 on: November 22, 2010, 06:07:42 am »
The simplest solution: in your channel, mine out the tile that you'll put the pressure plate on (so a floor remains above).   It'll still be marked as 'inside' and unfrozen, even though the entire rest of the lake will be ice.  Also building a floor above after it gets channeled out will not stop it freezing, even though it's exactly the same thing..  gotta love that dwarven physics.
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Re: freezing water and trap components
« Reply #5 on: November 22, 2010, 06:47:37 am »
Sorry I can't contribute anything, but OT wtf is your avatar ChairmanPoo?

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Re: freezing water and trap components
« Reply #6 on: November 22, 2010, 07:43:51 am »
I use a pressure plate to automate the magma level in my obsidian farm, so it gets obsidianized every single cycle. Then I dig the obsidian and the pressure plate is still there, in working conditions.

If freezing-melting works the same, I guess you won't have any problem.
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Re: freezing water and trap components
« Reply #7 on: November 24, 2010, 02:34:44 am »
Quote from: Marthnn on November 22, 2010, 07:43:51 am
I use a pressure plate to automate the magma level in my obsidian farm, so it gets obsidianized every single cycle. Then I dig the obsidian and the pressure plate is still there, in working conditions.

If freezing-melting works the same, I guess you won't have any problem.

good to hear, this is news to me.
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Re: freezing water and trap components
« Reply #8 on: November 24, 2010, 06:32:23 am »
I think digging and unfreezing works differently.

I had a dwarf encased in ice, come spring it melted and his corpse was nowhere to be found.
the next winter I dug out some of the ice and his corpse popped into existence.

it may work the same for the pressure plate
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