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[Rilder]

If your like me you spend alot of time thinking during boring periods, alot of the time about DF, so I command thee! Post your Insane project idea's that you'd love to try sometimes.

One of my recent ideas.


Dwarven "Battery*

This would basicly use a system like a dam to pump a bunch of water from a lower resevevoir into an upper one, which would have a sort of drainage system that would drain the top resevoir into a channel which would spin back around into the bottom resevoir, and along this channel thered be a series of water wheels that converts power out of this.

Sort of like

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+~~~++WW+           + = Walls   
+~~~X~~~~          ~ = Water  W = Waterwheel
+++++++++~          X = Floodgate
+~~~~~~~~
+~~~++++++
++++++


Yeah probably wouldn't work or would overflow or something dwarvenly, and wouldn't be all that usefull. 

[Christes]

Sounds like a dwarven perpetual motion machine to me.

They work very well.

[Rilder]

Sounds like a dwarven perpetual motion machine to me.

They work very well.

Yeah, but it'd be more, fill the top resevoir, bugger off for awhile till you actually need the power then open the floodgate.

[LegoLord]

I have an idea.  Build and obsidian tower.  Inside your magma pipe.  All the way to the bottom of it.  And have farms in it.  This obviously requires a pipe with a natural roof.

[Hawkfrost]

Make a nuclear reactor, with water, uranium core, and lead walls.

[peekama]

I have an idea.  Build and obsidian tower.  Inside your magma pipe.  All the way to the bottom of it.  And have farms in it.  This obviously requires a pipe with a natural roof.

There was a thread about that a while back.  I'd post the link if I could find it.

[MagicJuggler]

Here's a crazy idea...A giant cave spider farm. Occasionally toss down puppies for them to shoot webs at, and when it comes time to harvest the webs, lock the spiders up and go down for harvesting. It can be insane depending on the nature of harvesting...(e.g. I dunno if giant cave spiders can shoot through bars or fortifications, because if they could one could essentially use floodgates to keep them from shooting your harvesters).

[Wolfking6116]

Someone mentioned that a while back.

Build a room with bars on one side, channel past the bars. Make a bridge over the channel, place a bait in the room and open a different side to the GCS, make sure you're able to lock the room.

Before you open it to the GCS, finish the bars, cross the channel, and withdraw the bridge. When you need webs, let the bridge go across and station a recruit on the bridge until enough webs have been shot through the bars.

Of course you also need a way to seal off the bars so you can go collect he webs.

[Untelligent]

Make a nuclear reactor, with water, uranium core, and lead walls.

With a little modding, that would be awesome if Toady ever decides to put a steam-engine-type power source in (yeah, right).

[Felius]

How about a autonomous self-regulating resevoir-well system quite a few z levels below a infinite water source. Maybe using a channel to a chasm over it, as a security measure to allow emptying it at first, to test it and see if works.

Also, a not very crazy idea, but curious if anything done it already: A all livestock map. Maybe a starting location where crops cannot be grown or something as such.

[Warlord255]

All-livestock would not work for very long, since alcohol is an utter necessity. If you want to go pure carnivore for food, you can do it, sure, but don't expect dwarves to take sobriety kindly...

[Felius]

Can a fortress run on imported alcohol only? I mean, is it feasible, or the costs for this are too big?

[MagicJuggler]

What if the caravan doesn't carry alcohol...otherwise, as long as you export enough stuff to afford alcohol...

[Jake]

Persuade Uwe Boll to make the DF movie.

[MagicJuggler]

What if the caravan doesn't carry alcohol...otherwise, as long as you export enough stuff to afford alcohol...

There's crazy, then there's psychotic...why would you even suggest this?