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| ID | Project | Category | View Status | Date Submitted | Last Update |
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| 0004427 | Dwarf Fortress | Dwarf Mode -- Environment | public | 2011-04-02 00:02 | 2011-04-02 22:39 |
| Reporter | skooma | Assigned To | |||
| Priority | normal | Severity | major | Reproducibility | have not tried |
| Status | new | Resolution | open | ||
| Platform | AMD X2 6400 4GB RAM GF8800 GTS | OS | Windows 7 64 bit | ||
| Product Version | 0.31.24 | ||||
| Summary | 0004427: Murky pools yield infinite amount of water. | ||||
| Description | I dug into two murky pools outside to drain them out. I expected the water to simply drain out and evaporate. That was a while ago, and a layer of 1/7 and 2/7 water has been creeping across the map southward towards the lake there ever since. I can't block it off as the dwarves think that exit is submerged even though it is 1/7 there. If I dig a channel near it somehow becomes filled to 7/7. The biome is equatorial, that is there is a dry and wet season. There is a river on the eastern part of that map and a lake in the south. | ||||
| Steps To Reproduce | Breach a murky pool and let it flow around outside. Perhaps the lake or biome is responsible. I'll learn exactly what biome tomorrow. | ||||
| Tags | No tags attached. | ||||
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Is it raining? Murky pool tiles will gradually fill up to 7/7 when it is raining. In very hot biomes (desert) it evaporates faster than it can fill, but in all others you will find that murky pools will refill every year (faster in temperate/cold biomes, as 2/7 water will freeze into full ice walls, which will melt into 7/7 water come spring). I use this to refill my cistern - put a floodgate in the drainpipe, wait until pool is full, then open the floodgate for a fresh supply of water. If you want to remove the "murky pool" characteristic of the tile (you want to use it for a farm, for example) you will have to destroy the "murky pool", by building a paved road over it then removing it. |
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If the biome gets enough rain, such as a swamp, a murky pond produces a nearly unlimited amount of water from the constant rainfall to the point its almost like an aquifer. |
