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[Neruz]

So, i'm sure this has happened to some of you; you're mining through the mountain when suddenly WHAM! Underground Pool.

That is completely empty. And full of cave spiderwebs.


Well my friends, i have recently been lucky enough to discover The Mysterious Vanishing Underground Pool in a situation that may unveil some reason behind why it vanishes. For i just embarked upon a location with one, except that it was revealed to the surface thanks to a small hole in the rock. It started off full, but within seconds it was down to 4's and 3's.

I will report back when i find out what is draining my MVUP.

[Sensei]

Temperature?

If it was exposed to the surface like you said, it probably evaporated.

[RebelZhouYuWu]

Its a GCS that got so big it created a nest in a underground pool.  Right now that underground pool is it's source of water and due to it's size it drinks up so much.  If you were to reveal it I would say it would be around 5x5 tiles.

[Neruz]

Cold biome, murky pools are currently frozen.

--EDIT--

Correction, murky pools just melted. Cat drowned.

--END EDIT--

It's exposed through a small hole in the side of the wall; no water is exposed to the dreaded outside (at least none of it has frozen.)


Interestingly, it seems that the pool is content to remain at 4 and 3 level water, with the water just skating all over the surface.

It also appears to have a single tile in the level below with 7 water, i would suspect an Aquifer, except the site doesn't have any.

Mysterious.

[Neruz]

What in gods name; Summer just arrived and the water in the UG pool vanished completely, taking with it the inhabitants. There's no corpses or anything, just muddy rock.

Current theory is alien abduction; they're clearly stealing our water. Further explorations will need to go on hold due to an accidental breaching of the Magma Pipe, resulting in a Fire Man loose in the fort.

[Neruz]

It turns out the pool is actually 2 levels deep, it's just that the second level wasn't revealed by the opening in the wall.

Current theory is that it didn't spawn enough water in the pool for some reason. Perhaps pools spawn with a randomised amount of water and it's possible they spawn with none at all?

The creatures didn't get abducted by aliens, they retreated down to the second level when the water on the top level mysteriously vanished.

(Fire Man toasted other cat, then went off to wrestle Troll, set world on fire running across the grass, then dodged down chasm.)

[Neruz]

Unfortunately that puts an end to my investigations; turns out there was a Skeletal GCS chilling by the Chasm, right up until my Farmer ran over and aggroed him all the way back to my fort.


Still, i am determined to find out why UG Pools randomly decide they're not full of water.

[Hippoman]

1. Reclaim.
2. Check the world history.

[Neruz]

Reclaiming resulted in a completely empty pool, which is what i usually find whenever i run into a MVUGP.

World history reveals nothing odd, although this being a large world there's quite alot of it, so i may have missed something.

[AtomicPaperclip]

If you embark somewhere with an underground pool and use reveal you can watch it drain.

Also if you pour water on it from several z levels above, it won't flood.

[Neruz]

If you embark somewhere with an underground pool and use reveal you can watch it drain.

Also if you pour water on it from several z levels above, it won't flood.

Wierd.

[kilakan]

maybe the water is like fuck this it smells in here and decides to leave?

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Cold biome, murky pools are currently frozen.

--EDIT--

Correction, murky pools just melted. Cat drowned.

--END EDIT--

That made me laugh for a good 5 minutes.

[Neruz]

I keep finding UG Pools that are half empty, with a top layer of water all 4's and 5's most frequently, but sometimes only a single layer of water, and sometimes empty entirely.


What the hell is going on here.

[Wolfius]

Current theory is alien abduction; they're clearly stealing our water. Further explorations will need to go on hold due to an accidental breaching of the Magma Pipe, resulting in a Fire Man loose in the fort.

Crap, they're onto us.

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*flashes neuralizer and runs*