Bay 12 Games Forum

Please login or register.

Login with username, password and session length
Advanced search  
Pages: [1] 2

Author Topic: Today I learnt about water pressure.  (Read 1287 times)

Spacespinner

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Today I learnt about water pressure.
« on: October 31, 2011, 01:35:49 am »
Turns out attempting to fill a reservoir with water flooded my hospital room and the entire main stairway. And every fucking dwarf is ecstatic about it, despite being trapped on each level. Anyone have any ideas for fixing this before the water fills my fortress up one by one?
Logged
Quote from: Quietust on July 14, 2013, 08:32:48 am
Most people's relationship with Dwarf Fortress is akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

Spacespinner

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #1 on: October 31, 2011, 01:37:26 am »
Oh god, it's reached the crafting levels, next up is bedrooms. I, I, I can't watch!
Logged
Quote from: Quietust on July 14, 2013, 08:32:48 am
Most people's relationship with Dwarf Fortress is akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

Muttonhawk

  • Bay Watcher
  • Lord-High everything else
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #2 on: October 31, 2011, 01:44:32 am »
Evacuate? If there's a miner trapped with a few survivors, get him/her to dig them above the water. Thats all I can think to do.
Logged
Quote from: Loud Whispers on October 23, 2011, 07:00:20 pm
How sad, imagine what they would've come up with... Booze proppelled rocket bayonets
Quote from: Dylan Moran
You know what you are? You're a beard with an idiot hanging off it.

Spacespinner

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #3 on: October 31, 2011, 01:48:09 am »
I'm going to have to go with that, I got one digging out a massive channel below the water channel, hoping to drain it long enough to stop it. otherwise, I'm gonna have to evacuate and wait until winter when the water freezes.
Logged
Quote from: Quietust on July 14, 2013, 08:32:48 am
Most people's relationship with Dwarf Fortress is akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

Spacespinner

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #4 on: October 31, 2011, 01:58:24 am »
Oh fucking great. I actually manage to almost survive this without a single fatality somehow, and then my very first goblin ambush hits. This is not my day...
Logged
Quote from: Quietust on July 14, 2013, 08:32:48 am
Most people's relationship with Dwarf Fortress is akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

Monkeyfacedprickleback

  • Bay Watcher
  • Sweet flaming monkey fire WHY are they doing that?
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #5 on: October 31, 2011, 02:10:54 am »
Welcome to dwarf fortress. LOSING IS FUN! ;D
Logged

Spacespinner

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #6 on: October 31, 2011, 02:21:19 am »
After a second ambush, it was made all the more painful by a group of elves arriving. After going over the wreckage, there are about 10 points where I was THAT close to fixing the solution before the next thing screwed me over. Oh well, cbf reclaiming. Just going to start over since I really don't want to sort through the belongings of 60 dwarves. Despite all this, I actually kind of enjoyed seeing my hard work fall apart haha
Logged
Quote from: Quietust on July 14, 2013, 08:32:48 am
Most people's relationship with Dwarf Fortress is akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

Spacespinner

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #7 on: October 31, 2011, 02:26:00 am »
And the last dwarf goes insane. I don't think I could of possibly come up with a better ending.
Logged
Quote from: Quietust on July 14, 2013, 08:32:48 am
Most people's relationship with Dwarf Fortress is akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

Frelus

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #8 on: October 31, 2011, 03:51:28 am »
The best ending of a fortress was a legendary axedwarf and an ecstatic child.
All others were dead, and the child was playin in the bones.
One word:
Boatmurdered.
greetz
Logged
Quote from: Necro910 on August 21, 2011, 04:33:52 pm
It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it's Fun and Dwarf Fortress.
Quote from: ThatAussieGuy on August 07, 2011, 05:08:07 am
My trade depot is set to flood with water at the pull of a lever.  It's deep in the tunnels with easy drainage.  I call it my "water for goods" trading policy.

Ifeno

  • Bay Watcher
  • UristMcSoldier is an enemy of the Twinkling Incest
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #9 on: October 31, 2011, 05:05:59 am »
Quote from: Frelus on October 31, 2011, 03:51:28 am
The best ending of a fortress was a legendary axedwarf and an ecstatic child.
All others were dead, and the child was playin in the bones.
One word:
Boatmurdered.
greetz

it was a swords dwarf!

....just saying...
Logged
Quote from: Poindexterity on January 27, 2012, 10:21:31 pm
ive gotten in the habit of replacing my chief medical dwarf as soon as he gains any notable skill in diagnosis.
It's really funny watching them do unnecessary surgery because of a wrong diagnosis.
Quote from: ashton1993 on July 03, 2012, 02:48:12 pm
the conditions were bad enough to turn a dwarf who didn't care about anything mad, that's pretty hardcore.

Frelus

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #10 on: October 31, 2011, 06:07:33 am »
Oh?
I thought it was an axedorf...
K, my mistake.
greetz
Logged
Quote from: Necro910 on August 21, 2011, 04:33:52 pm
It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it's Fun and Dwarf Fortress.
Quote from: ThatAussieGuy on August 07, 2011, 05:08:07 am
My trade depot is set to flood with water at the pull of a lever.  It's deep in the tunnels with easy drainage.  I call it my "water for goods" trading policy.

Spacespinner

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #11 on: October 31, 2011, 06:33:56 am »
Yeah, I kinda used boatmurdered to get me into the game/as a guide, which is probably why most of my forts start off well, then go to hell suddenly.
Logged
Quote from: Quietust on July 14, 2013, 08:32:48 am
Most people's relationship with Dwarf Fortress is akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

Frelus

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #12 on: October 31, 2011, 07:30:47 am »
Yes, that might be a reason.
Have you got elephants roaming the lands and/or play DnD?
greetz
Logged
Quote from: Necro910 on August 21, 2011, 04:33:52 pm
It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it's Fun and Dwarf Fortress.
Quote from: ThatAussieGuy on August 07, 2011, 05:08:07 am
My trade depot is set to flood with water at the pull of a lever.  It's deep in the tunnels with easy drainage.  I call it my "water for goods" trading policy.

Nyxalinth

  • Bay Watcher
  • [LIKES_FIGHTING]
    • View Profile
    • My facebook page.
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #13 on: October 31, 2011, 07:31:51 am »
In pre-conquest Mexico, in what's now Mexico City, the ruler Ahuitzotl had ordered an aqueduct built to convey water from the the springs at Chapultepec after he had conquered Coyohuacan.  the ruler of that province refused, saying the water pressure would be too dangerous.  Ahuitzotl had him killed for his insolence, and did it anyway.  The city flooded, and the waters damaged his palace, causing him to be hit in the head with a falling beam and rendering him brainless for the rest of his life.

Fun (and Fun!) with water pressure gone awry isn't limited to DF players.  If you think about it, the Aztecs were pretty damn dwarfy.
Logged
Nyxalinth likes the color blue, gaming, writing, art, cats for their aloofness,  Transformers for their sentience and ability to transform, and the Constructicons for their hard work and building skills. Whenever possible, she prefers to consume bacon cheeseburgers and pinot noir. She absolutely detests stupid people.

Frelus

  • Bay Watcher
    • View Profile
Re: Today I learnt about water pressure.
« Reply #14 on: October 31, 2011, 07:34:15 am »
And I guess they also hated their nobles....
Wait....
Are they small people with long beards?
No?
Sure no?
Damn, I thought we would have discovered the origin of the dwarfes...
greetz
Logged
Quote from: Necro910 on August 21, 2011, 04:33:52 pm
It's all fun and games until someone gets hurt. Then it's Fun and Dwarf Fortress.
Quote from: ThatAussieGuy on August 07, 2011, 05:08:07 am
My trade depot is set to flood with water at the pull of a lever.  It's deep in the tunnels with easy drainage.  I call it my "water for goods" trading policy.
Pages: [1] 2
« previous next »