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[gtmattz]

I like the 'swewers' idea for flood prevention.  I have done it on a couple of my forts and found it works splendidly with proper planning, but found that the time spent on 'proper planning' put toward designing water works to be flood-proof instead takes less time and, if you pay attention to all the details, is perfectly safe from causing floods.

[TolyK]

I have found a use for caverns. *gets great idea*

[Arkenstone]

Um, what I said was to utilize where it's 6 deep instead of seven.  If you leave a single level of water bouncing around like that long enough, then it will dissapear.

One 7/7 amidst a bunch of 6/7 should not disappear, a single 1/7 dancing around on top of a bunch of 7/7, however will.  Unless you are on a really hot biome and the water is exposed to the open air, water should not evaporate unless it is 1/7.

Really?  In that case, I have another idea:

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The _'s are hatches; it works by measuring out 7 units of water by opening the first hatch, then dropping it in the 1x3 hall below so that there's two tiles of 2/7 and one of 3/7.  My tests with my first design showed that the signal bounces along so fast that most of the time, the gates are open.  In this randomizer, there is a SMALL chance that one of the two side tiles will activate, and almost no chance the center will.  But I can use this too, because the biggest problem with my first gate is that the signals change too often.  I can use one of these gates to say when to trigger a state change in my dungeon, so you can't just wait for the path you want to take to open up again.

And I'm currently using this in project ARM_0k (see sig).

[Malaclypse]

If you seal a cat in a cage with a small piece of plutonium, and the chances are that the cat could, at any time, die of radiation poisoning, Urist McShrodinger's theory states that the cat is both living and dead according to the rules of logic.

Sounds like a recipe for a nuclear catsplosion.