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[JoeCB]

On my current fort, I drained a murky pool and it was bone dry for about 4 years. Then in about a year rain filled it back up to 7/7.  I didn't expect it but thought it was neat.


I'm in a temperate forest.

[rephikul]

In a hot or scorching climate where ALL standing water is vulnerable to evaporation

Exception: hot tropical forest protect its murky pools and they wont evaporate.

[Ibid Straydrink]

In a hot or scorching climate where ALL standing water is vulnerable to evaporation

Exception: hot tropical forest protect its murky pools and they wont evaporate.

Hot tropical forest, or hot tropical moist forest? I also noticed that water wasn't evaporating in mine, but then, the rain.

[Hans Lemurson]

In a hot or scorching climate where ALL standing water is vulnerable to evaporation

Exception: hot tropical forest protect its murky pools and they wont evaporate.

That would explain why I had pools of water standing around just fine and dandy in my latest scorching start.  Thanks.

I became an expert in rainwater collection techniques after an embark on a volcano in the savannah and didn't learn until too late about "extreme evaporation".  My dwarves ate above-ground crops and not much fish.  When I did collect enough rain-water, I found that the biome had turned it brackish, so I had to desalinate it.  To solve my water-woes once and for all, I undertook the construction of a pump-stack to bring water to the surface from the bottom of a 93 z-level cavern.  Halfway through its construction, I found the aquifer that I had believed the embark-screen to have merely been taunting me about.