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[Agamemnon]

[Kidiri]

<pedant>The Doctor isn't immortal.</pedant>

Well, he's not generally hostile either, though I suppose he might make an exception considering some of the stuff dwarves do. It's not like he's the only thing you could put in there.

He is rather hostile to the Daleks, Cybermen, Slitheen, Sontaran, Hoix, Judoon, Auton, Roboform, Silurian, Sycorax, Uvodni, Weevil, Blowfish or basically a lot of the species in the universe...

[chaturga]

[shadow_archmagi]

<pedant>The Doctor isn't immortal.</pedant>

Well, he's not generally hostile either, though I suppose he might make an exception considering some of the stuff dwarves do. It's not like he's the only thing you could put in there.

He is rather hostile to the Daleks, Cybermen, Slitheen, Sontaran, Hoix, Judoon, Auton, Roboform, Silurian, Sycorax, Uvodni, Weevil, Blowfish or basically a lot of the species in the universe...

To be fair, only the Daleks is he actually by default like "Oh hey I need to kill these guys"

All the others he goes through his standard "You're trying to destroy the world MAN is that inconvenient well look if you cut it out now I'll help you find a peaceful way to co-exist! Alternatively, explosions." speel

[ledgekindred]

I'm going to try this.  It shouldn't be too difficult.

[dwarfguy2]

I'm going to try this.  It shouldn't be too difficult.

that's nothing. some guy made it with only 6 axes.

[Greiger]

Didn't people manage to make successful forts embarking with absolutely nothing but no-skill dwarves and a wagon before?

Find some rope reed with herbalism and you have crafts, for trading a pick, find just about anything else and you have food.  Don't need tools for farming, and you get 3 wood from the wagon no matter what you do, which can be cycled between workshops as necessary.  As well as a short term food supply in the starting butchered wagon animals.

And I just realized, that was back in 40D.  Turn one of those logs into a training axe nowadays and you can cut all the wood you need.

[Heavenfall]

[MetalSlimeHunt]

No one survives fun forever. You know that.

[ledgekindred]

Well then



Wooden training axes can cut down trees?

edit: Hunh.  You sure can.  Good ol' dwarven engineering!

[einstein9073]

Completely cover a major river with waterwheels, then build windmills on all the land and some built platforms. That may get you... some of it?

Sounds like some sorta Hoover dam megaproject!

Simple math dicates you would need a perfect square 191 tiles wide to generate that kind of power with waterwheels.

1,210,000 power requires 12,100 waterwheels, or 13,445 if you count it as 90 instead.
Since waterwheels are 1x3x1 (not 3x3x1) and are powered by vertical flow, you can use a long perpetual motion stack/chamber. I read about this somewhere, but forgot where.

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If one made 5 chambers 100 waterwheels long and 25 z-levels deep, that would cause you to have 1250000 gross power. These 5 chambers would occupy a volume 21 tiles wide, about 105 tiles long, and 28 tiles deep.
if you account that each waterwheel takes ten power and each gear assembly takes five, that would make you need each chamber to span 27 z-levels to generate 1,210,000 net power.
This will require 135 mechanisms and 40,500 logs. Better embark in a jungle, and enjoy your tower-cap farms!
(And you'd want a pumpstack or two to reload the water...)

[SkyRender]

Too bad a gigawatt is 1,000,000,000 watts.  You've illustrated how to generate 1.21 megawatts quite nicely, however.

[einstein9073]

Too bad a gigawatt is 1,000,000,000 watts.  You've illustrated how to generate 1.21 megawatts quite nicely, however.

In Dwarf Fortress, a pump consumes 10 "power".

How many watts is ten "power"?

You made the assumption that one "power" is one watt. Ten watts isn't enough power to illuminate a wall three meters up, much less raise acre-feet of water three meters. 10kW, on the other hand, is enough power to raise water 3m at 350L/s. (Yes, that's at 100% efficiency, bite it.)

If one "power" is one kilowatt, then 1.21M "power" is 1.21 gigawatts, Marty.


Snark less, math more. Make like a tree, and... get out of here.

[derekiv]

Snark less, math more. Make like a tree, and... get out of here.

No its "Make like a hockey goalie and get the puck out!"

[einstein9073]

Snark less, math more. Make like a tree, and... get out of here.

No its "Make like a hockey goalie and get the puck out!"

Don't forget Biff! Maybe I'm too old.