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[Rollory]

How do these work?

I placed a floodgate in the passage leading to the underground river.  Ok, but now my dwarves couldn't get through to the riverside (and the fisherdwarf couldn't get back).  So I placed a mechanism as a lever nearby, and told it be connected to the floodgate, and it told me I didn't have enough.  So I built two more and tried placing them, and it told me I didn't have enough.  What am I supposed to do?

[macbony]

I'm a bit confused by your wording, but there's a really good description of farming on the Wiki. The farming page is here.

In short, you need 6 mechanisms. Use two to make levers. Then under the [q] for the lever, you connect it to a floodgate. You'll need 2 mechanisms (1 for the lever and 1 for the gate) and the mechanic will go to the floodgate and set it up and then he'll go to the pulley. Do this for both, selecting different gates each time using the + and - (I hit enter and kept screwing up. You have to make sure it give you the option of selecting what type of mechanism to use for it to work at all).

[JT]

What most people don't know is that you only need one lever if you're going to be manipulating both floodgates simultaneously -- you can link one lever to several different floodgates (traps, cages, columns, etc.) simultaneously.