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Desalinating Water
« on: August 11, 2010, 07:15:35 pm »
The wiki, and I quote, says to:
"Dwarves can not drink salt water until it has been desalinated. Water can be desalinated through the construction of a pump that pumps water into a completely constructed cistern. A well no longer desalinates water.

Source: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Water#ixzz0wLWIcLVp"

I tried that. It didn't work at all. How do I do it?
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2010, 07:20:04 pm »
Yeah, the wiki lied. Well is the way to go.
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2010, 07:20:56 pm »
Wells still desalt the water?
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2010, 07:57:28 pm »
If the water touches anything that isn't contructed, it becomes tainted again.
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2010, 08:04:08 pm »
I had a completely built cistern that was floating in the air. The pump was the only connection.
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #5 on: August 11, 2010, 08:07:58 pm »
AND a well?
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #6 on: August 11, 2010, 08:15:25 pm »
What about the well?
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #7 on: August 11, 2010, 08:38:33 pm »
I've desalinated water by constructing a cistern and all channels leading to it out of rock blocks. Worked perfectly.
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2010, 12:12:28 am »
And the pump?
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2010, 12:28:25 am »
You know, I've never had to build a cistern. I embark on oceans and have had wells going directly into the ocean water. Yet Dwarves always drank out of them without harm.
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2010, 12:42:06 am »
Same. Again, wiki lies.
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2010, 02:30:47 am »
Wells work just fine for desalinating water.

As for the pump, I embarked on a volcano near the ocean, no ocean tiles visible, but all of the murky pools were salt water.  I quickly built a small wooden square, used a retractable wooden bridge for the floor, plugged the hole in the wall with a wooden pump, and had fresh water.  A few wooden ramps, and a nice path leading past the wooden cistern to the trade depot, and I was ready for my first Elven caravan. :)  I probably should have made the path a wood block road.  Maybe next time.

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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2010, 02:45:07 am »
Quote from: breadbocks on August 12, 2010, 12:42:06 am
Same. Again, wiki lies.

So if you've tried this in game and the wiki is wrong update it.

The wiki never lies.
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #13 on: August 12, 2010, 03:36:13 am »
For a saltwater aquifer, I recommend to pump some of it to the z-level above.. The room there does not need smoothed or constructed walls. The water will be fine for drinking.

It becomes more complicated when you start to drop the saltwater some z-levels a lot of z-levels. It was very much saltwater when I once used it to flood one of those rock islands of the magma sea.
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Re: Desalinating Water
« Reply #14 on: August 12, 2010, 05:16:56 am »
Worked fine for me couple versions ago, although I haven't embarked on ocean in .12.

Mind showing us a picture of your cistern?
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