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[Avo]

I was looking at my brook while working out the best possible way to dig into it without subjecting my dwarves to fun when i noticed something strange. The water in my brook is giving me the "!!HOT!!" indicator. Does this mean my brook is boiling? If i drain some of the water underground will it cool? Thanks!

Edit: Perhaps this can be used a super speed magma that doesn't melt all of the goblinite....

Edit 2: Nothing to catch in the river, its looking like its boiling. At least this will keep the carp away.

Edit 3: The rain isn't boiling, i know that much. None of the forgotten pools are giving me the hot water warning either.

[Avo]

If the water is boiling will pulling it out of wells cool it down?

[FuzzyZergling]

Screenshot would be awesome.

[Avo]

Lets see if this works

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[EmperorJon]

Er... wow!

[celem]

That screenshot would seem to indicate that magma flows beneath the water....weird

[Avo]

Nope, checked. No magma.

[Naryar]

LOLWUT. Yet again, I've had weird things with temperature.

Also why is the river hot but not the murky pools ? That can't be a simple climate effect then.

[Mister Always]

See if you can pump it into a reservoir that you can empty onto a siege without it cooling down. If it doesn't cool down, see what happens to the gobbos!

[clockwork]

I bet it wont cool. You should try making a goblin boiler room. Careful though, there's a chance, anything the boiling water touches will remain that temperature.

[Avo]

Those were some of my first thoughts, but it cools instantly once it leaves the river.

[clockwork]

That's weird and a little disappointing. I guess you could always construct a drowning/boiling trap out of the river itself, or use it as a dump zone to see if it melts stuff into nothing.

[FuzzyZergling]

If you channel part of the river's edge, does the water not flowing in the original river cool?

[Avo]

Yeah, the moment its out of the brook it no longer gives me the !!HOT!! warning.

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[nenjin]

And there's nothing below the river?

That's just plain odd, like the steam bed itself carries a heat value. I wonder if Toady has been tinkering on things he wasn't mentioning, because that would take the cake for a random bug. I've always wondered if at some point, named brooks and streams and such would take on magical properties.

Then again, we had boiling/ballistic rain bug at one point, so who knows.