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[ltprifti]

is there anyway i can mod them to be able to join a squad?  so i can make a troll squad?

also, i was told i could equip trolls with weapons, how do i do this?

[Mister Always]

Okay, I have a few quick questions. I have a brook on my map, not (very) far from my fortress. So I thought "nice", now I can make a cistern.

I just have a question.

1. If I dig out a channel across the brook, will it keep flowing past that point, or will it not?

2. Water in brooks seems to flow constantly, so will the entire channel fill up to 7/7, including the cistern?

3. Do I need to construct a pump (and a windmill to power it)?

4. Constructing a wall grate. Water will pass through it, right? The brook is one z-level below the entrances (one entrance is a trap corridor, the other is much shorter - guess which one gets the door in front of it forbidden during sieges?) to my fort, so should I construct a grate where it hits the "ramp" to keep gobbos from coming in or will this not be necessary?

5. Even if it's not needed to keep the gobbos out, are there fish in brooks? I know there probably won't be, like, carp and stuff, I'm thinking more about turtles and those things. Will those go through the grate, and will they pollute my cistern?

Thanks in advance~

[TolyK]

is there anyway i can mod them to be able to join a squad?  so i can make a troll squad?

also, i was told i could equip trolls with weapons, how do i do this?

I... don't exactly know.
try the modding forum for the first one.
for the second just try assigning them carpentry thorough DT and they should get axes.

Okay, I have a few quick questions. I have a brook on my map, not (very) far from my fortress. So I thought "nice", now I can make a cistern.

I just have a question.

1. If I dig out a channel across the brook, will it keep flowing past that point, or will it not?
Yes it will keep flowing.

2. Water in brooks seems to flow constantly, so will the entire channel fill up to 7/7, including the cistern?
Yes it will keep flowing.

3. Do I need to construct a pump (and a windmill to power it)?
Yes it will keep flowing.
Not if you connect it directly (don't forget floodgate/dwarbridge to stop water!)

4. Constructing a wall grate. Water will pass through it, right? The brook is one z-level below the entrances (one entrance is a trap corridor, the other is much shorter - guess which one gets the door in front of it forbidden during sieges?) to my fort, so should I construct a grate where it hits the "ramp" to keep gobbos from coming in or will this not be necessary?
Yes it will keep flowing.
May be necessary. Go ahead.

5. Even if it's not needed to keep the gobbos out, are there fish in brooks? I know there probably won't be, like, carp and stuff, I'm thinking more about turtles and those things. Will those go through the grate, and will they pollute my cistern?
Sometimes, but rarely for me.

Thanks in advance~

in bold above.

[ltprifti]

im on a mac and DT isn't mac compatible

[Mister Always]

Floodgates...that's a fine idea. Thanks.

DF wiki says pumps are used only for bringing water up a z-level, which I don't need...so I won't be bothering with the pump. Wall grate and floodgate are go, though.

[ltprifti]

what i do is i channel out a path into my fort and a reservoir insider it and metal bars to keep anything from entering my fortress.  then i have water in my fort

[Mister Always]

Yeah, that's pretty much what I'm gonna do. Except the grates are rock, but eh.

Also: constructing a floor above a channel will not cancel the flow,right?

[Jacob/Lee]

Right.

[Mister Always]

Righto. Time to get diggin'.

...as soon as I get all the workshops up and know where I want my farm.

I'm lucky because it runs pretty much horizontally across the map. I can just dig one veeeeery long channel from my fortress to the brook.

[ltprifti]

i didnt know about the floor thing, thanks

grates are for the floor you need to use vertical bars

[Mister Always]

b > W, mate. Check that out.

[Mister Always]

Also, if rocks wash into a cistern, does the water in it get polluted?

[TolyK]

pretty sure.

[ltprifti]

i just put wells in the reservoir i create

[Mister Always]

Time to designate a lotta rocks for dumping, then...