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Nikow

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How to prevent freezing of water on the surface?
« on: February 21, 2012, 09:18:05 am »
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I'm on salt, cold place. My dwarf fighting with a lot of undead, this isn't evil biome. I can't penetrate Aquifer, but i want alone figure out how do this. But i have one small problem, with water supply. I have aquifer on -2 level, so i made tank on -1 level, and and create a hole on ground. In winter it freeze. How can i prevent it?

I builded small cabin, to protect my water from bad rain, but it still freezing.
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Re: How to prevent freezing of water on the surface?
« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2012, 09:23:50 am »
With magma.

Seriously, the only known way to prevent water from freezing on the surface in a freezing area is with flowing magma on the Z-level below.  Building a roof over it does not work.

This is probably impractical in your situation.  Try to make a cistern in a place that has never been exposed to the sky instead.
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Re: How to prevent freezing of water on the surface?
« Reply #2 on: February 21, 2012, 09:26:01 am »
If you ever manage to punch through, you can build a reservoir with a floodgate-controlled pipe to the aquifer layer, and you'll have infinite water to use at your leisure.
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Re: How to prevent freezing of water on the surface?
« Reply #3 on: February 21, 2012, 09:28:02 am »
My dwarfes don't want drink water from aquifer, i think it is salt.
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Re: How to prevent freezing of water on the surface?
« Reply #4 on: February 21, 2012, 09:30:41 am »
You build a well directly over aquifer, that'll make them drink salty water.
As for the preventing of freezing, Sphalerite has said it all. I can come up with a bunch of weird ideas about this, but they're untested and have a little chance of being true.
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Re: How to prevent freezing of water on the surface?
« Reply #5 on: February 21, 2012, 09:31:27 am »
Wells are your friend, in that case. Just be sure to make enough that your dwarves can always get water and don't have to wait all that long.

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Re: How to prevent freezing of water on the surface?
« Reply #6 on: February 21, 2012, 09:31:40 am »
Then build wells.  Dwarves will always drink water out of a well, even if the well is built over salt water.  Although you may have trouble with the water freezing in the bucket if you're in a freezing biome.

Of course, your best bet is to brew enough booze that your dwarves don't have to drink water in the first place.
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Re: How to prevent freezing of water on the surface?
« Reply #7 on: February 21, 2012, 09:47:34 am »
I can't build well, i don't have mechanizm. :( Thanks for help.
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Re: How to prevent freezing of water on the surface?
« Reply #8 on: February 21, 2012, 09:51:52 am »
Well (hahah) it's not that hard, mechanisms can be made of stone, after all. Owait...
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Re: How to prevent freezing of water on the surface?
« Reply #9 on: February 21, 2012, 09:55:02 am »
Get metal from caravan, make metal mechanisms
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