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Author Topic: [40d] Map edge fortifications don't let water flow  (Read 797 times)

Daisyvondoom

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[40d] Map edge fortifications don't let water flow
« on: July 16, 2009, 01:16:11 pm »

I had a magma related incident that ended in about half of my brook and subsequently my river being made of obsidian, including the source. I knew that mining out the edge tiles wasn't going to happen, but you can in fact smooth and carve fortifications out of the edges, which seems like it should let the river through but it doesn't.
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Rowanas

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Re: [40d] Map edge fortifications don't let water flow
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2009, 02:38:44 pm »

Perhaps it's due to the fact that the water is considered to have stopped flowing due to the obsidian dam. If it were anywhere else, water would still be flowing in, and then getting dammed, but because it's on the edge it's stuck as dammed forever.
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Re: [40d] Map edge fortifications don't let water flow
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2009, 04:23:15 pm »

You destroyed the edge of the map river tiles, where the water spawns. You turned them into obsidian, and water does not spawn from obsidian.
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Re: [40d] Map edge fortifications don't let water flow
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2009, 07:26:40 pm »

You can possibly turn the tile back into a river tile by using a tool like Tile Edit.
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