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Mimodo

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Re: World embark help needed :)
« Reply #15 on: March 11, 2012, 07:00:20 pm »

only the stuff in the way :)

If it's a murky pool, do i need a well to make it drinkable?
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« Reply #16 on: March 11, 2012, 08:49:14 pm »

Nope, but murky pools are stagnant, and stagnant water will cause unhappy thoughts when drunk and increase infection when used to clean wounds.

Pumping the water through a screw pump into a seperate reservoir will clean it. Use 'k' to check if water is stagnant. Bear in mind there is a bug that causes stagnant water to be very contagious, so make sure your seperate reservoir is definitely seperate.
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« Reply #17 on: March 11, 2012, 10:17:10 pm »

Ok... Can I have a quick rundown on how to do the water pump thingy?
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« Reply #18 on: March 11, 2012, 10:52:33 pm »



^ Ground level                                             ^ 1 level down

In the top-left of the images is a murky pool, in the bottom-right is the reservoir (ignore the little 1x1 murky pool at the top). Make the reservoir by channeling on the ground level. Mine is 7x7 (with the top left square cut out, so there's a 1x2 gap between the pools to fit my screw pump) for lots of water storage, but you only need 3x3 or so really. The walls are there to stop water overflowing when the pump is used, because if the water overflows and touches the murky pool, the reservoir becomes stagnant also.

1. chop trees
2. wood workshop
3. 1 x wooden giant corkscrew
4. 1 x wooden pipe
5. masons workshop
6. 1 x rock block (i assume you have rocks)
7. press 'b' then 'M' then enter to build the screw pump. The dark green tile is placed directly adjacent to the reservoir (inbetween the walls in my case) and the light green tile is placed directly adjacent to the murky pool. I think it's 'u' 'm' 'k' 'h' to change the direction of the screw pump, interface should tell you anyway. Press enter when it's in the right position.

The pump draws water from the tile below the tile next to the light green tile, and deposits the water in the tile next to the dark green tile, which then falls into your reservoir.

8. Press 'q' and hover over the pump, then press enter to start it up. Repeat to turn it off. Make sure you have at least 1 dwarf with pump operating enabled. Just don't forget to turn it off when your reservoir is starting to get full!

Edit: Bear in mind that dwarves prefer to drink alcohol than water, of course :P

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« Reply #19 on: March 12, 2012, 01:07:04 am »

Thanks :) dont worry, i got plenty of booze for them ;)
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