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[Skelodwarf]

So, for no apparent reason, all of my farms have decided to stop producing food.

When (q)ing over them, they say "No seeds available for this location". So I would assume this means I no longer have ANY seeds, which is complete BS. I have roughly 200 plump helmet spawn, and rising as I brew like crazy. (This is my only chance to take some of the barrels for booze, instead of them being claimed by the 1000's of plump helmets I have.)

So, what gives?

[lanceleoghauni]

mud might have dried up

[Skelodwarf]

It can do that?!

Dart.

That is exactly what happened...

Good thing this fort includes the first ever actual irrigation system I've made, and I won't have to break out the bucket brigade.

[Rijjka]

There's so good foresight for you.

Yeah I had that problem once, unfortuantely my irrigation system was more of a 'flood everything between point a and point b and wait for it t dry' system.

[lanceleoghauni]

For my farming sector I have an aquifer hooked up to dwarf powered pumps, one of which also refills my well. Hooray for desalinization Via lifting.

[Xenos]

i have only had this happen once and that was the result of me smoothing some floor tiles...

[Zenatsu]

So what is a good irrigation system to provide farms with water to keep it muddy? Also, can you make mud if the farm plot occupies the land or do i haft to deconstruct/reconstruct it.


I guess an idea I have would be having a flood gate at either end, open them up allowing somewhat pressurized water to flow through, close the gates and let it drain? 

I suck at planning things out 

[claer_runway]

Yeah I had that problem once, unfortuantely my irrigation system was more of a 'flood everything between point a and point b and wait for it t dry' system.

aren't they all?

[Shoku]

He probably just means horizontally placed points.

[Skelodwarf]

Well, my current system (No longer, as I'm currently running DF in the background, waiting for my fort to finish flooding), is just a room right above a cistern, with grates along the walls, and a grate at the entrance. You build a pump in the entrance, pump it full of water, it all drains out quickly, and remove the pump (to be build somewhere else for a different farm plot)

ie:

Code: [Select]

xxxxxxxxx
xH  H  Hx
x       x
xH      [<<]H
x       x
xH  H  Hx
xxxxxxxxx
Empty Space = Floor
x = Wall
H = Floor Grate
[<<] = Pump

At some size it might become frustrating waiting for a single square to become muddied, but  in 7x6 rooms, they were 100% Muddified in about 3 seconds, also, there wasn't any waiting for drying, as all the 1-Deep water was destroyed when the plot was built.

[Rijjka]

He probably just means horizontally placed points.

Well I did have one too close to the stair well once, but yes, normaly horizontal points.