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[JLJac]

Just a quick disclaimer; I didn't want to suggest that there should be different liquids and that they should be able to mix, I wanted to share my idea of how to do this. I was aware that both Toady and lots of other people have been wanting to add more liquids for some time, but from how I understood it there was trouble to be expected in the implementation, hence my suggestion. That's why I named the thread "Technical suggestion", because I didn't want to tell Toady what to add to his game, only give him a suggestion of how to do something I already knew he wanted to do.

[antymattar]

Yes. The ideas willbe taken into account...

...In 10 years...

[kaenneth]

Fluids should be in 1/60th of a tiles volume; equal to a large bucket load.

Presuming that tiles are about 5 foot cubes (dwarfs have to slow down to pass each other in one... and they are short), that would make a bucket a little more than 2 cubic feet in volume, which dosn't sound unreasonable. (I wouldn't want to carry 2 cubic feet of water, but dorfs are strong)

1/60th is also evenly divisable by 2,3,4,5 and 6, making spreading water more likely to give integer results.

[King Mir]

Since water comes in 7ths already for visual and flow purposes, surely a 70th of a tile bucket size would be more reasonable?

[kaenneth]

No.

I chose 60th's for it divisibility, and for being close to a binary power, as 6 bits can easily store a range from 0 to 63, 70ths would have to be stored in 7 bits, while only using a tiny bit more than half the 0-127 range. the current 1-7 depth range is fairly meaningless, we may be used to referring to "7/7 magma" "1/7 water", but I don't see a compelling reason to keep it in that range. there is a reason there are 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute; 60ths are actually very easy to work in.

[Babylon]

No.

I chose 60th's for it divisibility, and for being close to a binary power, as 6 bits can easily store a range from 0 to 63, 70ths would have to be stored in 7 bits, while only using a tiny bit more than half the 0-127 range. the current 1-7 depth range is fairly meaningless, we may be used to referring to "7/7 magma" "1/7 water", but I don't see a compelling reason to keep it in that range. there is a reason there are 60 minutes in an hour, and 60 seconds in a minute; 60ths are actually very easy to work in.

it's 7 because that fits a byte perfectly.  0 means there is none.

60 sounds like a good amount.