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Dzedajus

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Getting water in tundra
« on: July 22, 2014, 05:30:10 am »
I embarked into tundra freezing biome there is no water on surface obviously not even ice. Tried to hit the caves, but there is no water too, even first layer cave is completely dead nothing but dirt floor.
So is there any way to get water besides using dfhack?
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martinuzz

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Re: Getting water in tundra
« Reply #1 on: July 22, 2014, 05:47:06 am »
If there's no aquifer, your only chance lies in the caverns. Try breaching 2nd and 3d cavern.

If you would have had ice on the surface, I think it would have been possible to melt that by having magma flowing on the z-level below, right under it.
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Re: Getting water in tundra
« Reply #2 on: July 22, 2014, 05:47:28 am »
Get to the magma and use it to thaw the ice, or cause a cave-in of ice and magically get water.
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Dzedajus

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Re: Getting water in tundra
« Reply #3 on: July 22, 2014, 06:03:05 am »
Welp there is no ice at all, guess ill try exploring caverns more.
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Panando

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Re: Getting water in tundra
« Reply #4 on: July 22, 2014, 06:50:14 pm »
Quote from: Extreme Boyheat on July 22, 2014, 05:47:28 am
Get to the magma and use it to thaw the ice, or cause a cave-in of ice and magically get water.

To elaborate and clarify. If you cave in glacier ice, murky pond ice, river ice or ocean ice, into a lower z-level then because the lower z-level is above the freezing point the ice melts, turning into water. It's not exactly magic.

Of course if your water source is murky pool than this is a strictly finite water since caving in the murky pool destroys it.
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martinuzz

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Re: Getting water in tundra
« Reply #5 on: July 23, 2014, 02:58:36 am »
Can you still use pumps to multiply water? I do recall pumps gobbling up any amount of water, yet always spitting out 7/7
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Panando

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Re: Getting water in tundra
« Reply #6 on: July 23, 2014, 05:40:57 am »
Errr I'm pretty sure pumps strictly conserve water. If they multiplied water then things like mist generators would not work, they would be water generators instead.
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Dzedajus

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Re: Getting water in tundra
« Reply #7 on: July 23, 2014, 06:45:37 am »
today 2 dwarfs died from forgotten beast a my militia commander and some useless fisherdwarf luckily my marksdwarf wasn't injured despite solo killing it. If they got seriously injured they still would die from dehydration, right?
I guess I will cheat a little with df hack to get water hopefully without flooding entire fortress/map.
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Kumil

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Re: Getting water in tundra
« Reply #8 on: July 23, 2014, 11:20:13 am »
That's why I like aquifers, letting you have an infinite source of water in hostile environment.

Maybe search for a subterranean river ?
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