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[Soralin]

I thought the saves were forward compatible...

yes, they should be. i am too lazy too do that... and i am not even sure about what i need to do to make it work.

edit: i think i'll try to do that, if i find enough informations on the forum. my plan was to delete dwarf fortress 39e and download the next one (the one that won't allow saves from older DF). but this place is too interesting

edit2: since i am already here, and i can't remember where i read what to do to take saves to new version... could somebody explain me that?

40d is backward compatable, it's the last version that's planned to backward compatable, since the next update is planned to have some major updates to it.

All you have to do to take your saves over is make sure that you don't delete your dwarf fortress/data/save folder, or that you have a copy of it saved somewhere, and put it back into the same place.

You could even just download the new version, and put it into a separate directory, and then copy the saves over, and run the new version to make sure everything works right before you delete the old one(or you could even just keep the old one and run that one for your old fortress and the new ones for new fortresses, etc. etc.)

[andrea]

ok, thanks.
i hope i dont do anything wrong... it seems easy.

[andrea]

i generated the world and started playing. wagon started on the river. before i could take everything inside, the ice melted, and all my food and seeds went to the bottom of the river. same for the cook and animals. luckly animals can swim.
i'll have to forage a bit to survive, but everything seems fine. fort entrance is on the side of the river, walled. 
next year i odn't know what iwll happen, but i have the feeling that i'll get a underwater fort.

news about the dam?

[Jude]

Is it possible to dam rivers without them ever freezing?

I just embarked on a nice map with a major river valley down the middle and I'm planning on building a massive castle that straddles the river...wanted to know if I can dam it as well. (but it's a warm map)

[Alex Encandar]

Is it possible to dam rivers without them ever freezing?

I just embarked on a nice map with a major river valley down the middle and I'm planning on building a massive castle that straddles the river...wanted to know if I can dam it as well. (but it's a warm map)

Yeah, you could pump out the water pretty easily to allow your dwarves to scurry in and build the dam.

[Ter13]

Is it possible to dam rivers without them ever freezing?

I just embarked on a nice map with a major river valley down the middle and I'm planning on building a massive castle that straddles the river...wanted to know if I can dam it as well. (but it's a warm map)

Pumping is probably the best option for this.

[Newtons.Bit]

Is it possible to dam rivers without them ever freezing?

I just embarked on a nice map with a major river valley down the middle and I'm planning on building a massive castle that straddles the river...wanted to know if I can dam it as well. (but it's a warm map)

You can also mine out a diversionary tunnel underneath the river, then build a platform above the river and collapse the platform.  This will create a hole in the floor under the river thus diverting it.  Just be sure to place some floodgates in your diversionary tunnel so that it can be shut down and the river will assume it's normal path.

[scribbler]

It's always kind of bugged me that I can't embark in a canyon, build an enormous dam, and then have the upstream side of the canyon fill up - water entering a map isn't under pressure, the stream just sits there.

What if you used pumps to bring water to the top of the dam and dump it off? Would it treat the spout as the new water level?

[JoRo]

It's always kind of bugged me that I can't embark in a canyon, build an enormous dam, and then have the upstream side of the canyon fill up - water entering a map isn't under pressure, the stream just sits there.

What if you used pumps to bring water to the top of the dam and dump it off? Would it treat the spout as the new water level?

Yes.

[Qmarx]

Odd.  The map given has a bug where it doesn't properly unhide the tiles directly under the upper river's dropoff.

[penguinofhonor]

Yeah, the game keeps tiles immediately behind waterfalls hidden for some reason.

[Seizures]

I just have to thank you for this topic, it has rekindled my love for DF.

I haven't been able to get into DF lately, and this topic has reminded me that there are still things to be conquered in the Dwarf world.

[TheDeadlyShoe]

3700 stone sounds like it's not hollow. You really want to make a SOLID dam? Heh.

[Onlyhestands]

If you dam a river will the water downstream of it(in adventure mode) be dry?

[sonerohi]

Probanly, constructions stay constructed.