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[tompliss]

Hey guys,

I'm making a new fort, and try to make a Minas Tirith inspired design for my fortress, so I embarked in a mountain region, with a little tropical terrifying savana...
I have NO WATER at all ... tried reveal, and couldn't see any (fond a chasm, burrowed under 3-4 z, but fortunately not in my construction site...
So, the only way of growing crops is by using the Savana tiles (not larger than half of a screen ... -_- ).
bad point for me : it's way too far from my fortress ... I mean ... I can make a tunnel to it, or a little fortified building for it , but it's clearly not in the spirit of this fortress ...

So there is one thing left : hunting ...
There are enough animals (untamed wilds moutains => marmots, goats, and a Giant Eagle, plus the gazelles of the savana), even if there are some undeads ... -_-
And even .. not really in the spirit aof a Minas Trith Fortress, is it ?

So, I need your help :
I have to get Water, or Soil ...

Clearly, water should be better (in my first attempt, my miner/apraiser/mayor got wounded by a Cave-in... friend/lover with everyone ... when he went to rest, I knew I couldn't do it that long ... -_- )...

PS : I think you guessed it : not native English speaker ...

[Caesar]

Pardon me for asking, but are you sure that this is the right forum section?

[Grendus]

He's probably looking for a way to mod in something to get water, like a reaction.

Unfortunately, there isn't. You could create a smelter reaction that created a brewable food, such as plump helmets, but creating water would create a water object, not a water flow. I'd say go dig a path to the savanna and you've learned your lesson - water is like magma: you can survive without it, but it makes things so much easier and fun.

[tompliss]

Ok, so ...

Is there any mean to change a Stone Layer to Soil ?

[Caesar]

Not without generating an entire new world.

[BunnyMaster42]

As far as I know the only way that could possibly help you is modding a creature to drop water on death, and then going from there. It would be almost impossible to pull off, but if you managed to get enough mud you could go from there.

To get water on death you have to use the [ITEMCORPSE:LIQUID_MISC:NO_SUBTYPE:WATER:NO_MATGLOSS] line from the Blizzard Man entry. No idea what you could put it on though, cats would work best probably.

Other then that there really isn't much else that you can do without generating a new world.

[Jay]

I don't think water being dropped as an item muddies anything.
Pretty sure it just sits on the ground as a "water [1]" or similar.

[BunnyMaster42]

But, when said water eventually evaporates, wouldn't it leave a muddied square? Or am I getting all this horribly wrong?

[Hugo_The_Dwarf]

get the utility Dtil from the pinned post Mods and Utilties there is a Tile Editor function in it, dig a 1x1 channel in your savanna, use the tile editor, follow the read-me other words it uses whatever is under the look command "k", select a soil and change water table from false to true, just channel around it and you made your own aquafier, takes some gettin used to

[tompliss]

nice one, i'll try it ^^