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[Lycaeon]

Water is incredibly plentiful in the DF universe - with rivers and oceans and fortresses flooded by an accidental aquifer piercing - and it's clearly used in drinking and pumps by dwarves...but I can't figure out how to use it in a reaction.

Logic dictates that a bucket of water can be a useable reagent...but so far I haven't found a means to create a raw reaction which has dwarves collect water with a bucket from a pond or river.

A building which acts similar to a pump but only takes in water and doesn't release it may also work, but pump mechanics aren't present in the raws and can't be imitated. This is the same for water wheel type workshops as well.

And there's no [Needs_water] token that requires a workshop be built over a channel containing water like the [needs_magma] token...well, supposedly there is one, as wells must be built over water...this may require further testing.

Any help on this matter would be appreciated.

[Zidane]

Wells don't need to be built over water only open spaces.

[Lycaeon]

The reaction which gives water in a bucket from the well requires 3/7 water somewhere below the well as I recall.

[Davichococat]

And there's no [Needs_water] token that requires a workshop be built over a channel containing water like the [needs_magma] token...well, supposedly there is one, as wells must be built over water...this may require further testing.

I think these things are hardcoded. Its like figuring how a farmer workshop can use a animal to produce milk.

[Aranador]

I imagine you could make a reaction that uses a bucket as the reagent, and returns the bucket full of water magically created out of thin air.  Actually - that might be useful for getting your plaster casts in your hospital working (although I prefer the 'dont use any plaster at all, use splints instead' fix)

[dree12]

Erm, use the LIQUID_MISC item type? With the WATER material?

[cartmann]

Code: [Select]

[REACTION:FILL_BUCKET_WITH_WATER]
    [NAME:fill bucket with water]
    [REAGENT:A:1:BUCKET:NONE:NONE:NONE][EMPTY][PRESERVE_REAGENT]
    [PRODUCT:100:10:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER:NONE][PRODUCT_TO_CONTAINER:A]
    [SKILL:CONCENTRATION]
    [ADVENTURE_MODE_ENABLED]
This works, it's a bit weird but it gives you 10 peices of water nevertheless.

[Brandstone]

Code: [Select]

[REACTION:FILL_BUCKET_WITH_WATER]
    [NAME:fill bucket with water]
    [REAGENT:A:1:BUCKET:NONE:NONE:NONE][EMPTY][PRESERVE_REAGENT]
    [PRODUCT:100:10:LIQUID_MISC:NONE:WATER:NONE][PRODUCT_TO_CONTAINER:A]
    [SKILL:CONCENTRATION]
    [ADVENTURE_MODE_ENABLED]
This works, it's a bit weird but it gives you 10 peices of water nevertheless.

This looks interesting for an ice to water workshop. Posting here so I remember it tomorrow.

[Lycaeon]

I have figured out an intermediate solution to my problem.

I made an artificial tree that grows only in wet subterranean, river, and ocean biomes and takes 100 years to grow to full maturity. Its logs can be processed by a custom reaction to create deuterium canisters, as I imagined the tree itself to spend its lifetime transforming water into heavy water. Now I have the necessary fuel for my nuclear fusion reactions.

[dree12]

Problem: Sapling growth time cannot be modified.