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[Avo]

I had some inadvertent !!Science! while working on a obsidian creation system. Dumping a bucket of water on magma results in steam, but no obsidian forming. This leads me to one of two potential conclusions.

1. Water dumped from a bucket is an item until it hits the ground. This item cant cool but still boils away.
2. Obsidian requires more then 1/7 water to be formed.

Can anyone verify this dwarf science? Is this already know to the community?

[blue emu]

I had some inadvertent !!Science! while working on a obsidian creation system. Dumping a bucket of water on magma results in steam, but no obsidian forming. This leads me to one of two potential conclusions.

1. Water dumped from a bucket is an item until it hits the ground. This item cant cool but still boils away.
2. Obsidian requires more then 1/7 water to be formed.

Can anyone verify this dwarf science? Is this already know to the community?

Try dumping the water from MORE than one level above.

[Avo]

Urist: Initiating  !!Science!!/Blue emu

Operation success! Im stumped as to why. Hypotheses dwarves! And thanks Emu

[cancel.man]

Waaait... so you're saying you can create obsidian with one bucket of water if you drop it from 1 level above? And all the time I spent building ponds over retracting bridges to achieve this was for not?

[blue emu]

Waaait... so you're saying you can create obsidian with one bucket of water if you drop it from 1 level above?

 

[Bart0vds]

how do you transport water?? (im a df newb) please reply 

[zooeyglass]

how do you transport water?? (im a df newb) please reply 

You can designate a pit/pond under 'i' - make sure you designate it as 'pond' rather than 'pit. You need a spare bucket that a dwarf will then use to transport water into the pond. More info: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Activity_zone#Pit.2FPond

[Bart0vds]

how do you transport water?? (im a df newb) please reply 

You can designate a pit/pond under 'i' - make sure you designate it as 'pond' rather than 'pit. You need a spare bucket that a dwarf will then use to transport water into the pond. More info: http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/DF2010:Activity_zone#Pit.2FPond

thanks 

[elpizo]

there really should be a way to transport magma, would mak4e some things so much easier, damn pump stack is long to do

[hapes]

Magma piston.  Look for that on the board somewhere.  Not as reusable as pump stacks, but you get magma at the top

[Undeadlord]

Can I dig down 7 levels and fill up an indoor pond? Or will it all evaporate eventually?

[gtmattz]

Can I dig down 7 levels and fill up an indoor pond? Or will it all evaporate eventually?

The only water that evaporates is water that is 1/7 and water that is in ponds in hot biomes.  If you fill a hole underground with a bucket brigade it wont evaporate.