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[duckInferno]

Mspaint to the rescue!

[duckInferno]

Update: in mk2 of my danger room, I used 1 spear.  It's going well, if slow.  My latest recruit has brought her infant in with her.  Grabbin some popcorn.

edit; The spikes are preventing corpse retrieval and now THE BABY GHOST HAUNTS THE FORTRESS

[Acperience]

There's probably something I'm not getting in the repeater design, but wouldn't the water eventually become so high the bridge is always closed? In other words, what gets rid of the water after the bridge closes?

[Crashmaster]

when the bridge opens and the lower floodgate closes (raises up) the floodgate destroys the water that was on it's square.

[mrtspence]

/Edit. Just got smoked. Ignore me.

[Acperience]

nevermind i got it, the floodgate atomizes the water on the tile.

this was originally from

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~~~ River/brook
WwW Walls, wall to be channeled out after construction
WBW Raising Bridge (1 tile, direction doesn't matter) linked to plate
WPD Pressure plate set to 7-7, Door for access
WFW Floodgate linked to plate
WWW

just build it, link the bridge and floodgate to the plate, and connect it to the river.

operates on a handy fact that I realized while replying to another post; raising bridges used as a 'door' have the opposite ON/OFF setting of doors/floodgates/hatches. you don't even need an extraneous lever during setup, since the thing starts in the 'ready' position.

-water flows in, plate goes on
-bridge shuts, floodgate opens
-water flows onto floodgate, plate goes off
-floodgate shuts (smashing the water on it), bridge opens
-repeat

I don't know why I'm obsessed with repeaters, the fort I have going right now is just an elaborate testing ground for little mechanical widgets.

optionally, you could leave a passageway beyond the floodgate, and this setup would let in a slow but steady stream of water, removing any pressure in the process. it also has the odd (and potentially very useful) effect of keeping the passageway/cistern beyond the floodgate at a maximum of 3-4 water (probably because it reaches an equilibrium where the cistern is at 3-4, so it lets in a maximum of 3-4 water each cycle, then smashes a tile of 3-4)

[duckInferno]

Bridges and floodgates have an alternating "open" state.  When the pressure plate's off, the bridge is open, the gate is closed... pressure plate off, bridge is closed gate is open.  If you use two doors, they'd both be either open or closed at the same time (you can't stagger them).

[mrtspence]

I will put this into practice. I have a series of steel spikes in my entrance hall that are begging to be endlessly repeated.

Many thanks.