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[qwip]

Ok, it looks like it's a special circumstance, but I'm so excited about it, I had to share.

This Farm was linked to a lever...

code:

  
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...but I wanted to link the 2 floodgates to a different lever in my "control room" instead of a lever in the middle of a hallway.
Of course my mechanics wouldn't link them because they couldn't access the second floodgate. So I mined out two squares and added doors.

code:

  
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Then I linked the floodgates to the new lever and Pulled it. EXCEPT, the doors hadn't been installed YET!!
Flooded.

code:

  
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So I closed the floodgates on the chance that  it might un-flood. No dice.

code:

  
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Then I noticed that the dwarves suspended the door installation jobs, because they couldn't get to the flooded site. So I cancelled the installation (

• removed the building). As I did that, dry ground appeared below the doors that were never installed.
  

  code:

    
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  and from there, the rest of my farm un-flooded... <phew>
  

  code:

    
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[Toady One]

Doors are very strange...  I fixed some of the "life" style weirdness arising from open doors yesterday.  I'll have to put this in the bug list, but I won't get to it for a while, since flows need to be redone anyway.

[Pod]

You hear that people?
In order to protect your game from floods, all you need to do is keep a door by the river, but don't construct it

I wonder if that works? ie world-flood everything, delete the door, and see if it fixes?

[Slartibartfast]

I suspect it won't work against a world-flood/perma flood, since in the original post it just fixed a small and contained flood. But don't let that stop you from trying (+screenshots )