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[Necromunger]

On an embark location i found a strange water source thing that just makes water from nothing.
There is no water source below it or above it:

[Strife26]

River source, I think. Awfully rare to find one though.

[Frelock]

River source, I think. Awfully rare to find one though.

True.  Brook sources are as common as brooks, but stream sources you usually have to look to find.  Consider it a natural spring from the non-existent aquifer.  Or a natural rainwater drain.

[Lytha]

What makes you say that these are rare? If there's a stream, then there has to be a source for it at one end.

It just took me about 20 seconds to find one on a freshly created pocket island. *find stream* -> *follow stream* -> there it is.

[celem]

Its fairly common to find if you embark on it.  On the closest view embark map if your rectangle covers the source (start) of a brook/stream...thats what it looks like

[Lytha]

... and there's another one on the same pocket island. This time in a red sand desert. Doesn't look like they're really that excitingly rare - or do you think that my pocket island is abnormal?


... another one in a temperate Savannah.
... and another one.
... another one in a Grassland
... another one in another Savannah.
... one more in a Rocky Wasteland
.. make that two more in Rocky Wastelands.
... the human town seems to sit on another one.

Alright, this Pocket Island seems to be a bit warmer than your default parameters. Still, that's plenty of sources of streams. There are even more for brooks, before you're asking.

[evileeyore]

What makes you say that these are rare? If there's a stream, then there has to be a source for it at one end.

It just took me about 20 seconds to find one on a freshly created pocket island. *find stream* -> *follow stream* -> there it is.

The "source" for streams and rivers are brooks.  It's not rare to find a brook source.

[Chessrook44]

Oh so THAT'S what that weird spray-pattern was at one end of the river in Syrupleaf!  I honestly had no idea.

[Jelle]

Definatly your standard brook/stream source.
It kind of looks outdated imo, I'd love to see glaciers and little lakes where the water collects from the mauntains then a few lines in the surface.

[Naryar]

Nothing really rare. Just the start of a brook.

Incidently, river deltas also look like that.

[Lytha]

The "source" for streams and rivers are brooks.  It's not rare to find a brook source.

I realize that. However, all of the sources I found were *stream* sources, not brooks. They aren't rare at all, really; I found them also just as quickly on less warm worlds than the one I investigated so closely.

[TubaDragoness]

Any time your embark area includes the dot at the end of a river, you'll get one of these. I actually find them rather annoying, especially in rivers. There's more room for my dwarves to taunt the carp.

[Lectorog]

I don't see how people think these are rare. I get one at least half of the time embarking with a water source.

[Montague]

You can destroy the entire river by undermining the floortiles at the very ends of those "river source" tiles.

I messed around river sources alot in 40d trying to get water without taxing my FPS.

[Ganondwarf]

SPARTA!!!
(I haven't read what's been written yet, sorry for trolling)