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[Eidako]

I forgot to disengage the powerplant before I built a pump stack next to it and the stairs down to the lowest z-level.....

[Vester]

That's hilarious. At least it wasn't magma.

[DeathOfRats]

That's hilarious. A pity it wasn't magma.

Fix'd.

[Porpoisepower]

That is simply sublime.

[AtomicPaperclip]

I've had many similar events happen with irrigation. Very well done

[Phantom]

How come Im the only guy here that never gets a disaster scenario?

[Wolfius]

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I forgot to disengage the powerplant before I built a pump stack next to it and the stairs down to the lowest z-level.....

*Wolfius has appreciated a fine engraving recently*

*Eidako has become an engraver*

[Glacial Eidolon]

Did he die, by any chance? By drowning?

...Did he take any cats with him?

[DorfDorfingdorf]

So okay. Long-time player, few-time poster here. So I know a few really wonky ways to mess with waterfalls, but nothing terribly good.

I have a (almost) pre-genned map, one of those nifty super maps with every feature and resource, and there's a waterfall coming from the north edge of my map. Not a river, mind you. Just the waterfall. At the edge of my map where a chasm (not bottomless pit) is winding around, about five empty tiles that touch the edge just have 7/7 water falling from near the top of it.

My question: What can I do with this? No freezing here. And since it's the map-edge, can I even make pumps there?

[BurnedToast]

How come Im the only guy here that never gets a disaster scenario?

You're not, it's just no fun to post about it when everything goes as planned.

"completed magma waterfall today, no casualties, everything working fine" tends to not get many replies.

[Wolfius]

So okay. Long-time player, few-time poster here. So I know a few really wonky ways to mess with waterfalls, but nothing terribly good.

I have a (almost) pre-genned map, one of those nifty super maps with every feature and resource, and there's a waterfall coming from the north edge of my map. Not a river, mind you. Just the waterfall. At the edge of my map where a chasm (not bottomless pit) is winding around, about five empty tiles that touch the edge just have 7/7 water falling from near the top of it.

My question: What can I do with this? No freezing here. And since it's the map-edge, can I even make pumps there?

If you want to divert the water for use, you can build bridges to the edge - a centeral for the bottom with two raised on either side to act as walls should allow you to divert most of the flow for whatever end you want.

[Eidako]

Did he die, by any chance? By drowning?

...Did he take any cats with him?

It was actually a number of dwarves, but I had tunneled out a wide open space at the bottom and caught the problem before it got out of hand. So other than being pushed down thirteen flights of stairs, nobody was hurt -- just a bunch of dwarves happy about seeing a waterfall.

As for the cats, I keep them locked in a cage with a grizzly bear, where they belong.

Although -- today, I had a couple of recruits out killing the endless hordes of utterly harmless zombie slugmen. After creating an absolute bloodbath next to a pond, they somehow both managed to fall in and drown. I had a miner run to it and dig ramps to try to rescue them, but after digging the first he wanted to dig the rest from underwater -- and after almost drowning as well, jumped back in and walked across the bottom of the pond to cross it.

[Glacial Eidolon]

Someone has got to make slugmen and snailmen butcherable and edible. Trainable, even!

War slugmen and war snailmen - living meat slimeshields. It's a shame yours are zombies, but how can a slugman be a zombie, anyways?

The answer is clear: arm your soldiers with salt.

(...Is it good or bad that nobody died? Aside from the hapless recruits, that is.)

[Skorpion]

How come Im the only guy here that never gets a disaster scenario?

Because you plan too far ahead? I get the strangest screwups because I don't really consider how things will have to be worked out in future.

[LordZorintrhox]

How come Im the only guy here that never gets a disaster scenario?

First of all, that avatar there brings me back to the good old days of Tiberian Sun...ahh, back when IPX was still supported...

Anyway, yeah.  Given the DF demographic's probable propensity for superlative preplanning, I'm willing to guess that most engineering accidents are either due to newbs or intentional torture.  DF reputation for Fun may have more to do with talk of engineering disasters than there actually are.

I've only had one after maybe two dozen forts, and that involved a similar case to this one: rather than bother with a well I made a five z-level cistern with stairs all the way up the sides.  Rather than build a pump stack to re-fill it, I figured using hydrostatic water pressure from the nearby river would be far more effective.

It was.