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[Jhoosier]

I'm building one, and am curious how much space I need to leave for the water to fall down.  If it comes out of a one-tile hole into the dining room, can it fall directly into a one-tile hole directly below, or will there be any splashing?  I was also thinking about glassing in the tiles surrounding it, but if I do that, will there be any mist created?  And will the dwarves get a happy thought from it?

Thanks for the advice!

[Run Comrades]

Check out this thread.

[Basilisk]

Since the other thread didn't quite answer the question, you will definitely need to have a larger grating area than the size of the input pipe by at least 1.

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===   Above diningroom
 =~=   = Wall
 ===   ~ Water

+++++   Dining room layer
+###+   # grates
+#~#+   ~ Water
+###+   + Floor
+++++



[MaxVance]

Glassing in the waterfall won't work, as dwarves get happy thoughts from standing in the mist.

[Doppel]

I don't understand, if i let water fall on a glass floor, it won't create mist? If so, why? 

[SHAD0Wdump]

What was meant was that glassing IN the waterfall will stop the mist from getting out,that means surrounding the thing in glass.

[Doppel]

Ah, ok, phew. I'm in the process of building a glass fortress wich will have many waterfalls, finding out it wouldn't have created mist because i used glass would have been a huge letdown.

[Quift]

on another note, it is important that the drain directly below the dining room is more than 1 tile deep. otherwise you risk clogging the drain by pouing water in it faster that the the drain spreads out. resulting in a pyramid like waterstructure flowing uppwards.

so build like this
-input
fall (x nr of storeys depending on how large  afall you wish)
drain (grates are good, about 3 in a row is quite sufficient
fall*
drainage room, either piped from here to another drain or a large reservoir

the fall* is the drainage space needed so that you dont clog your project leading to massive floods and the like.

[DarkMagnus]

Ah, ok, phew. I'm in the process of building a glass fortress wich will have many waterfalls, finding out it wouldn't have created mist because i used glass would have been a huge letdown.

Err, just so we're clear, mist is only blocked if you literally contain the waterfall in its own room. It's got nothing to do with the glass, rather the seperation.

This thread made me realize I have a brook and I'm not doing anything with it. For shame.