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[Deus Machina]

Alright, been playing a little while, only my current fortress has problems with this. Perhaps caused by distance.

I've been making cisterns for the wells and shallow chambers for the magma workshops, connecting 2-wide tunnels, and tapping into brooks, rivers, or volcanoes.

Now in my current one, magma and water travel a fair little distance relatively quickly, slow, get some into cistern of chamber at 1 and two, and never add any more.

Shouldn't liquids eventually fill these, even if it's slow from the distance? Am I doing something wrong?

[Biowraith]

I think, at least for long distances, there can be an issue with water evaporating and magma cooling, if it's allowed to sit at depth 1 for any length of time.

If it's going to be a long tunnel, especially for magma, I tend to put in a pump or two to help keep things moving.  Or at the very least, a z-level drop near the source to create some extra pressure to push it along.

[Deus Machina]

Hmmm. So, just at a couple lace, a channel, then a pump to force that?

Could make them more narrow, at that. But I often don't have an effective way to power the pump itself.

[thijser]

this pump could be either

hhhhp>hhhh

or

hhhhhhhhhhhh
hp>h
h=channel
p>=pump

[Firehawk]

If it's going to be a long tunnel, especially for magma, I tend to put in a pump or two to help keep things moving.  Or at the very least, a z-level drop near the source to create some extra pressure to push it along.

This ^

[Psieye]

Hmmm. So, just at a couple lace, a channel, then a pump to force that?

Could make them more narrow, at that. But I often don't have an effective way to power the pump itself.

Do you need that pump to constantly be powered? Once the channel is filled, what use is it? Just make a dwarf do the job.

[monkeyfetus]

These are from infinite sources, right? If it's from a murky pool the water will just spread out and evaporate.