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[ShadeJS]

At the moment I'm pumping water up 8 or 9 z-levels, from an underground river, to a small 3 z-level waterfall tower, that will drain into surface ponds. After the surface ponds fill these will drain into a 2 z-level deep upper moat. More waterfalls, yay. The upper moat will then drain into the lower moat. Still more waterfalls. The lower moat will then drain into a chasm.

Right now construction is underway. I'll have to fill things in stages to help with evaporation. The map doesn't freeze in winter, so that's one complication removed.

[Cthulhu]

You should take four or five unskilled dwarves, give them weapons, and put them in a holding pen until they're starving, then put one piece of food and a hydra in the center, and see who gets the food first.

[Sukasa]

self-repairing walls?

It's a figure of speech.  It's a 3-wide wall with water in the middle, so that if you break it the water pours out (powered by a pump) and seals the breach, effectively 'repairing' the wall.

[Soralin]

You might be able to make better self-repairing walls then that, say something like:

Code: [Select]

Side view:
 XLX
  XWX
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X = wall
L = lava
W = water
- = ground
In other words, a path for lava running above your wall, and a path for water next to it.  That way, if the ground floor wall on the left gets broken, the lava and water both flow into the breach, form obsidian, and repair the gap, which also repairs the path for the lava and water to take.  You could make it work on both sides too, say something like:

XLLLX
 XWX
-------

With a floor on the middle tiles, or a wall, or made wider or taller, etc.  Although I haven't actually used magma much yet, so I don't know how well this would work in practice.  And not having anything around to break walls doesn't give it much use at this point.

[sneakey pete]

I'd probably have the magma down the bottom, but that's a dam good way of making self repairing walls without being on a glacier!


My river entrance thing is going well. Apart from the drainage.

[andrea]

at the moment i am trying to drain and then stop a brook.
i am still building the third floor of my 15 floor towers (a biiig tower) and the game already started lagging(i have 120 dwarves, first fort to get that much).
since i can't kill my dwarves ( they all sleep in barraks and eat in 5 tables on the sand (yes, 5.) so if many dwarves die, i might get tantrums. food and drinks are enough to forget the deaths by goblins, but no more than that i think.

so i decided to drain the brook. luckly i built my fort in the place where the brook enter the map, so i can stop it after it leave my tower, and i would still have unlimited water.
if i am lucky, fps should go up a bit if there is no flowing water.
(how do i see FPS?)

[Soralin]

I'd probably have the magma down the bottom, but that's a dam good way of making self repairing walls without being on a glacier!

Well what you don't want to have happen, is have the obsidian reaction happen in the lower channel.  The slower flowing magma might not make it into the breach before the water falls down and splashes to the side, cooling it off in the tube, blocking your magma channel.  If you have the magma on the top though, it quickly falls down, and the water from the side can always be made to rush in quicker by putting the input to the water channel up a few Z levels to pressurize it.

Also, these self repairing walls might have the bonus of a nice blast of steam to the face of anyone deconstructing them.

[^^atte]

Atm im trying to build a fortress around a magmapipe ^^, i just started so i gona set up a small base next to the pipe, and train a dwarf to marksman so i can get rid of the imps ^^.

[roundedge]

So I came across a 50 layer granite cliff. Not just a regular cliff either, this is a nearly sheer rock face. The cliff descends into an inlet, and on the other side of the inlet is a forest. I've built a bridge over the inlet, into the forest, the bridge enters the cliff face, and continues up a ramp I've dug all the way to the top, exiting into a flat barren granite wasteland. I'm currently in the process of carving out 4 large towers into the face of the cliff, two on each side of the ramp. In addition, I'm carving out all the rock above the ramp, so it's open to the air. Finally, I'm 1/4 of the way through construction of a pumping system which will pump water from the inlet, up the insides of the towers, and then out the top and down over the sides again. I have an image in my mind of exiting a forest to be confronted by a sheer black cliff, with enormous black towers carved into the rock wall, glistening black with the thin film of salt water which flows over them. Standing guard ominously over the only path onwards into a plateaued wasteland. I'm just not sure what I should do with the other 45 layers of space my dwarves are currently not occupying, inside these towers

[Skid]

I'm currently building a giant stone and glass battle tank.  It's about 18 tiles wide, 25 long, the treads reach up to 5 z-levels, and the turret should top out around 15.  If I can get a hold of enough trees there will be a masterwork ballista for the main cannon.

[Axe27]

I'm attempting to build a road through my heavily forested map to where the Dwarves come in every autumn. So far, so good, but it's been a real pain in the ass micromanaging all the stone.