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Author Topic: Wells: fact or fiction  (Read 3136 times)

krenshala

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Re: Wells: fact or fiction
« Reply #15 on: November 28, 2011, 02:18:42 pm »

High temperature environments can have water evaporate even when above 1/7 in level based on the wiki and what other folks have posted.  Those sites usually have other issues, such as a complete lack of water at the surface, making the point moot in most cases. :)

Myself, I have a 3x3(x2 z-level) cistern that has a water sensing pressure plate at the bottom so it refills if the level drops below 4/7.  This keeps it at about 8/7 or 9/7 in each part of the 3x3, except for when I had to drain it to retrieve the armor and weapons from my drowned militiadwarf.

I haven't tried pressurizing the water to create geysers, but the first though that comes to mind (other than the lava-landmine someone posted about :) ) is to use a water landmine in a frozen biome for some icy +fun+. ;)
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Re: Wells: fact or fiction
« Reply #16 on: November 28, 2011, 02:24:15 pm »

I haven't tried pressurizing the water to create geysers, but the first though that comes to mind (other than the lava-landmine someone posted about :) ) is to use a water landmine in a frozen biome for some icy +fun+. ;)
I had a similar idea, but as soon as water is exposed to an 'above ground' tile it freezes. If forced up from below (via stairs or somesuch) it just creates an ice floor, blocking the outlet.
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krenshala

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Re: Wells: fact or fiction
« Reply #17 on: November 28, 2011, 02:28:16 pm »

I haven't tried pressurizing the water to create geysers, but the first though that comes to mind (other than the lava-landmine someone posted about :) ) is to use a water landmine in a frozen biome for some icy +fun+. ;)
I had a similar idea, but as soon as water is exposed to an 'above ground' tile it freezes. If forced up from below (via stairs or somesuch) it just creates an ice floor, blocking the outlet.
So, having it spray up around the plate the hostile that just stepped on won't work?  Damnit!  :-\
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Zepave Dawnhogs the Butterfly of Vales the Marsh Titan ... was taken out by a single novice axedwarf and his pet war kitten. Long Live Domas Etasastesh Adilloram, slayer of the snow butterfly!
Doesn't quite have the ring of heroics to it...
Mother: "...and after the evil snow butterfly was defeated, Domas and his kitten lived happily ever after!"
Kids: "Yaaaay!"

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Re: Wells: fact or fiction
« Reply #18 on: November 28, 2011, 03:57:45 pm »

High temperature environments can have water evaporate even when above 1/7 in level based on the wiki and what other folks have posted.  Those sites usually have other issues, such as a complete lack of water at the surface, making the point moot in most cases. :)

Myself, I have a 3x3(x2 z-level) cistern that has a water sensing pressure plate at the bottom so it refills if the level drops below 4/7.  This keeps it at about 8/7 or 9/7 in each part of the 3x3, except for when I had to drain it to retrieve the armor and weapons from my drowned militiadwarf.

I haven't tried pressurizing the water to create geysers, but the first though that comes to mind (other than the lava-landmine someone posted about :) ) is to use a water landmine in a frozen biome for some icy +fun+. ;)

Unless they're internal water sources. With my experience of glacier and scorching desert biomes (I like extreme maps), usually digging down 3-5-8 levels is enough for ice (as a boulder) to melt, water to not freeze, and water to not evaporate (except for the norm 1/7 case.).
This of course won't matter if the tile is "Above ground."

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Re: Wells: fact or fiction
« Reply #19 on: November 29, 2011, 02:13:26 pm »

In above-ground tiles in hot enough biomes, any depth of water will evaporate alarmingly quickly.
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Re: Wells: fact or fiction
« Reply #20 on: November 29, 2011, 03:50:16 pm »

In above-ground tiles in hot enough biomes, any depth of water will evaporate alarmingly quickly.

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