A few wells in the dining hall, with soap repositories and grates to drain their wash water, also helps. Anyway, water hits the statue, creates lots of lovely mist, and then what? Well, personally I like to have the flow go under my hospital and under all the prison cells - I make wells in each (just in case nobody feels like bringing booze to the prisoners, they won't die of thirst). If you don't do this, you're cruising for a flooded dining hall (but you put those flood gates in, so you can correct any mistakes, right?). My waterfalls I usually have dropping down to cascade on top of statues in the dining area - with LOTS of metal grates around, at least 2 tiles away from the statue in all directions, to drain. Each breach through to the source, for me, generally has its own floodgate and lever, so I can control the rate and shut things down as needed. What I've found works best is to pause the game, designate all the digging to be done for the entire water-works excepting the final breaches through to the water itself. Just remember to add them before the water. Water flows through fortifications, bars, etc. If the river bed dries up, grass will grow there eventually. At least there will always be water entering the 'old' river on one end. Depending on how big your river is and/or your tunel it might not even empty. Rivers mostly work by water entering on one end and exiting on the other. The easiest way is to dig a tunnel all the way to the edge of the map, or let it empty into a cave below your fortress. You have to have a way to handle the overflow, or else your hole will just simply fill up with water. Tunnel a path for the water from the nearest river to your hole, or experiment with pumps. Most likely this experiment will end in a horrible and deadly and not so safe FUN! for everyone included. You know you are playing dwarf fortress? There is no FUN! in safe. Much thanks and many love for all help rendered. Can I seal off this artifical river in case of invaders? Would floodgates work like they would with the naturally flowing river?.Assuming that the natural riverbed is dry by the time I'm done, how do I go about making it so that it's not a great ugly scar on the land?.How do you advise that I get rid of the water?.How to I get a five-tile-wide river to make a safe waterfall into a pool? How do the fluid dynamics work in the game when a large amount of water is falling?.How do I redirect the river into my base safely? Like, what are the steps to take to cut the river off and smoothly redirect it?.Obviously this is a pretty large-scale project, based on how little I actually know about this game. My design is a huge circular shaft, with a ramp running in a helix down the side, and at the bottom of that vast empty space a pool which will take the flow from a waterfall high above, literally just plunging down dozens of urists to the floor below. So I want to run a river through my fortress. Kitfox Discord #modding-discussion channelīronzemurder and Oilfurnace (illustrated) A three step guide:ĭownload DF Classic or install the premium version from Steam or Itch.ioįollow the quickstart guide on the wiki, or see other learning resources (below)Īsk any questions in the ☼Dwarf Fortress Questions Thread☼ - it's always active See the reasons for our rules here, and please report any problems!ĭF can be intimidating, but we're dedicated to helping new players. Use the ☼Dwarf Fortress Questions Thread☼ Want to start playing? Read this sidebar!

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