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Patarak

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Normal ground still absorbs water
« on: February 26, 2008, 02:11:00 am »
I think this was supposed to be fixed, but the pond that I am making continually soaks up the water that I put in there, and there is no aquifier.
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Ravendas

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Re: Normal ground still absorbs water
« Reply #1 on: February 26, 2008, 02:17:00 pm »
If your pond is outdoors it could be hot weather drying it out, unless that too was fixed without me noticing.
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sorbius

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Re: Normal ground still absorbs water
« Reply #2 on: February 26, 2008, 02:28:00 pm »
If you are filling it with buckets you need more then one person filling to actually fill it.  and 'normal' ground is supposed to absorb water.
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Patarak

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Re: Normal ground still absorbs water
« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2008, 01:34:00 am »
So... what doesn't absorb water?
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Mechanoid

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Re: Normal ground still absorbs water
« Reply #4 on: February 27, 2008, 01:57:00 am »
Constructed floors.

Also, water left standing at 1/7 will eventually evaporate over time. If you only have 1 dwarf in your bucket filling line and the distance is very long, the water could evaporate before the dwarf can dump another unit of water into the pool.

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Re: Normal ground still absorbs water
« Reply #5 on: February 27, 2008, 02:04:00 am »
quote:
Originally posted by sorbius:
<STRONG>'normal' ground is supposed to absorb water.</STRONG>

No it doesn't.  1/7 water evaporates over time; anything else shouldn't get absorbed unless you're dumping water into an aquifer (or a lake or ocean).

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