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Author Topic: Using a pool of water as a water source?  (Read 1714 times)

jez9999

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Re: Using a pool of water as a water source?
« Reply #15 on: May 05, 2013, 05:15:11 pm »

It's not hard to setup a cistern that has level 7 water, no.  But how do you keep it at level 3 or level 4?

Why don't you create a cistern with a number of tiles dividable by 7, say 21. Then have a bridge/gate partition it into one reservoir of 3/7*21=9 tiles and fill them up completely. Then, stop the inlet, open the partitioning bridge/gate, and it should even out to exactly 3/7 in the whole reservoir.

(edit: and for even easier one time use in an open environment, just channel out a 9-tile pool, fill it up by connecting it to the river with a floodgate at the edge, close the floodgate, and expand the pool to 21 tiles....
Aha yeah I knew there had to be a good way of doing it perfectly.  ;)  Thanks!
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