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[Kedly]

I get that they are hard to mine through (in the summer) but I swear in the winter they aren't active. At least everytime I've played I have been able to punch through them in the winter, and then just smooth the walls

[Sizik]

Not all maps freeze in the winter.

[Kedly]

Fair enough

[Cruxador]

Even if you pierce them while forzen, it's an annoyance. It just means you have to wait until winter and do all your digging then.

[Rose]

mining them in the winter also has a chance of minercicles.

[Kedly]

For me the stop producing water in the winter... Is my game not working properly?

[Rose]

Maybe it's changed since I last played. When I tried it, they produced water allright, which would instantly freeze and entomb my miners, but that's been a while ago.

[therahedwig]

Maybe it's changed since I last played. When I tried it, they produced water allright, which would instantly freeze and entomb my miners, but that's been a while ago.

Yeah, I had similar experiences.
And it wasn't very nice because I could barely access ore and the pick got atomsmashed due to ice... one miner is very little for a growing fort(even one that's stuck in soil).

[Kedly]

All I know is I've been setting up in ocean biomes a lot lately, and for the summer... yeah the aquifers are annoying. Come winter though I can dig straight down with no problem, and dig out areas that gave me aquifer warnings during the summer time, sans water (Im using the word sans correctly right? =P)

[therahedwig]

Yes, congratulations, you now know French.

Hm, that might be it. I usually don't expose moist rock to open air.

[Kedly]

Well its only open air in the sense that my tunnels eventually lead outside. I'm not talking aquifer soil thats exposed to sunlight

[Dutchling]

They're not annoying at all, unless you forget to mod them out.

[QuakeIV]

In my case much bigger chance of minercicles than usual, for some reason in this latest version they are constantly taking a dip, lost like ten miners last time I had to breach the aquifer.

[Sutremaine]

They're annoying because they're all or nothing. If you don't know how to breach an aquifer and aren't on a site that freezes, you make a functional surface fortress while you try and figure it out. If you do know how to breach an aquifer, it's a speed bump.

[GreatWyrmGold]

They're annoying because they're all or nothing. If you don't know how to breach an aquifer and aren't on a site that freezes, you make a functional surface fortress while you try and figure it out. If you do know how to breach an aquifer, it's a speed bump.

For me, unless I embark in an unusually cold area or find a good spot to make a cave-in plug, I pretty much don't get stone.