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Gakidou

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Could someone explain Aquaducts?
« on: August 23, 2006, 08:51:00 pm »

Hi, I haven't found anything in the manuals or online, and would like to avoid the floods that would result from experimenting, so: how do Aquaducts work? And what can they be used for?
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Mechanoid

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Re: Could someone explain Aquaducts?
« Reply #1 on: August 23, 2006, 10:09:00 pm »

aquaducts are used for transporting lava and water across the chasm, under or above ground river, or lava stream. Basically, aquaducts are a bridge for liquids.

How thick they have to be to function properly though, i have no idea since i've never had to use them.

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Re: Could someone explain Aquaducts?
« Reply #2 on: August 23, 2006, 11:31:00 pm »

3 tiles wide. The middle tile conveys the liquid.
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Re: Could someone explain Aquaducts?
« Reply #3 on: August 24, 2006, 02:09:00 pm »

Fun! I'll need to experiment. You know, water to magma, magma to water, lava to outdoors glaciers... I'm really hoping to get a fortress surounded by a vast boiling ocean. That'll teach those damn unicorns! (Although I suppose that was my fault for messing with the data files to play as goblins instead of dwarves... Unicorns don't attack non-hostile dwarves, right?)
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Re: Could someone explain Aquaducts?
« Reply #4 on: August 24, 2006, 03:47:00 pm »

I think I'm going to go fiddle with the data files and play a nice game of Demon Fortress.
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