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[Agent_Irons]

I finally got one to work. It's my third attempt. 

I kept running into aquifers, except when I needed one. Frustration. It works now! a renenewable supply of weapons cannot be far behind!

[pushy]

Umm....congratulations?

[Agent_Irons]

You have no idea how pleased I am that it's working now.

Just thought I'd share.

[Zorgn]

Now to make that obsidian tower you've always dreamed about.

[Reyyvo]

hmm can you give us a map? i'd like to see it

very gj

[Efun]

Nice job... next time try screenies too it helps us get all gitty as well

[Agent_Irons]

Screens coming soon!

I'm really proud. It looks kind of like this:

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###L###   
###D###
##........X   (AQUIFER!) 
##.##..##
##.##..##
##.>_____#
##.______#
##.______#

lever, door to prevent accidental flooding, X is floodgate. There's also a sump pump in case my dwarves are too busy to keep the fort from flooding. I dont have dolomit mechanisms, so I designed it so that when one of the floor tiles is channeled away, magma floods the chamber. later, when the magma cools, that tile is full of obsidian and acts as a plug, until the obsidian is hauled off and the chamber is reflooded. I'm thinking of putting in a walkway around the edges so I can get at my obsidian more easily.

[moghopper]

Obsidian eh?

I never use the stuff, but... ... this just gave me a cool idea for a megaconstruction/doomsday device!

[Agent_Irons]

I built it because my fort is short on labor and obsidian is worth 3x basalt.

I have warm tiles on one side of my little pond. Is there a pool there or summat?

Communist lies. There was a copper vein I exploited, so now that's full of magma and heating the above tiles.

Has anyone built underfloor heating for their dorfs? Seems like a cool finesse megaproject. Putting magma under all the floors in the fortress. 

[moghopper]

I built it because my fort is short on labor and obsidian is worth 3x basalt.

I have warm tiles on one side of my little pond. Is there a pool there or summat?

Communist lies. There was a copper vein I exploited, so now that's full of magma and heating the above tiles.

Has anyone built underfloor heating for their dorfs? Seems like a cool finesse megaproject. Putting magma under all the floors in the fortress. 

sounds like a perfect idea for disater! yay

[Rhenaya]

Has anyone built underfloor heating for their dorfs? Seems like a cool finesse megaproject. Putting magma under all the floors in the fortress. 

i planed it for my dining hall, but floors arent warm, just walls

[Siquo]

Just reading this to see if my first design will work, before I open the floodgates...

Got a channel from aquifer with floodgate to a reservoir with a hatch in the bottom, beneath that a room with a donut-shaped 3-wide channel (island in middle, and a walkway around that), and a run-off floodgate for the excess water just in case. Now to hope that obsidian acts as a plug, indeed.

All this with only z-level access from above, finally got a lava-map so I'm panicked about flooding it

[Doppel]

Has anyone built underfloor heating for their dorfs? Seems like a cool finesse megaproject. Putting magma under all the floors in the fortress. 

i planed it for my dining hall, but floors arent warm, just walls

Hmm, i thought it was possible to melt ice by running magma below it, yes, no, maybe?

[Agent_Irons]

It is possible to melt ice by running magma under it.

I'm sure of it. very recently, at least.

Now I want to play a savage freezing magma-rich map. 

[Bromor Neckbeard]

Has anyone built underfloor heating for their dorfs? Seems like a cool finesse megaproject. Putting magma under all the floors in the fortress. 

I'm in the first stage of building an obsidian factory in my current fort, and eventually I'm gonna have a heated shower/swimming pool, but I'm not dwarf enough to try to heat all the floors.