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[Azkanan]

Alright, here's the scenario. I've made a human wooden village with wooden walls, with a brook running through the middle.
People are starting to get annoyed, and want a well - which requires a mechanism. A stone mechanism.

Whilst digging out the channel (moat) which crossed across the brook, I noticed it created Granite in the water (7/7). So, now I need to grab that granite, somehow. (Bug #1?)
I've noticed in previous forts, that dropped ground from above creates walls below.

So! I channeled across the brook, and built a hanging floor above the channeled-out brook, connected with stairs. Then removed the stairs... Nothing happened, just lost some logs in the water.
So, I did the same again, except with about 4 levels of 1x4 walls above the channeled water...

Now here's the magic. It dropped, the remover got blown backwards into a pool and shortly drowned, and a black hole appeared underneath the wood-in-the-channel. The water began to drain, slowly, into a side-ways grey 8, sort of like a boulder.
Now my brook is down to 1/7, and I can reach the random rocks. Hooray.

Will post pictures shortly, after uploading.

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[Fossaman]

First off, constructed walls collapse into their constituent elements when collapsed.

Second, it sounds like you've hit an aquifer. If you k over the sideways eight, what does it say?

[Azkanan]

First off, constructed walls collapse into their constituent elements when collapsed.

Second, it sounds like you've hit an aquifer. If you k over the sideways eight, what does it say?

Brook.

[Skorpion]

That's an empty brook tile. IIRC, they have infinite drainage power.

[Azkanan]

That's an empty brook tile. IIRC, they have infinite drainage power.

Excellent. Now, what's this about Granite appearing from dug-out brooks? Default?

[Ubiq]

It actually is a boulder... well, kinda.

If a rough construction collapses and the resulting falling material punches through a soil layer that is hollow underneath, it'll bury itself in the next soil layer as a boulder (I don't know if it works if the next layer is stone). I've had that happen to me before by accident though it was with a rock rather than a log. I've debated using it to construct an underground rock garden, but have never gotten aorund to it.

Since it's a brook tile, it converted it to an empty brook tile rather than a boulder.

[GrafZeppelin]

If you wanna see a real black hole, try draining an aquifer into the ocean.

[Azkanan]

*shakes head in disbeleif, then bows to Toady in H1N1 land*

Speaking of which, anybody know if he out, yet?

[GrafZeppelin]

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It apparently made the guys computer go nuts.

[slink]

Now, what's this about Granite appearing from dug-out brooks? Default?

If you dig into an empty brook from the side, the apparently empty air beneath the brook surface will be an invisible solid.  If you dig out this invisible solid, it will become stones.  I think it is the same type of stone present where the brook enters the map.  The reason that I think that is the case is because the stone nearby the place where I tried this was not the same, and the type that resulted from digging out the brook was some distance away, at and near the place where the brook entered the map.

This happens even if the surface and bottom are left intact.

If, however, you dig in from the side to a frozen brook, the result is stones made of ice.  These melt and vanish when the brook melts.  No stones made of rock are generated.

[Azkanan]

You guys ruin everybodys lulzy fun >=[.

I still say I created a rift in the spacetime fabric; I feel more inclined to attempt to drop cats and elves in it, now.

[Flaede]

If you wanna see a real black hole, try draining an aquifer into the ocean.

you got that backwards. It's much more fun to drain the ocean into the aquifer.

[wagawaga]

No, you have to drain an ocean into an aquifer, then drain the aquifer into a chasm.

[dogstile]

*shakes head in disbeleif, then bows to Toady in H1N1 land*

Speaking of which, anybody know if he out, yet?

Probably not, i've got a mild form and i still get lightheaded as hell when i stand up

[Azkanan]

I had H1N1 back in june or something, I can't really remember... Only had it for a week, and the entire time I was running around with a bandana over my nose and mouth, tucked into my shirt, and washing my hands every couple of minutes.

Bad times.