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I think the image should be edited... the light blue rivers are streams, not brooks. Brooks are actually invisible on the region map, only visible on local. Only a minor issue though, but it can cause confusion. [[User:Lightning4|Lightning4]] 16:49, 16 November 2007 (EST) | I think the image should be edited... the light blue rivers are streams, not brooks. Brooks are actually invisible on the region map, only visible on local. Only a minor issue though, but it can cause confusion. [[User:Lightning4|Lightning4]] 16:49, 16 November 2007 (EST) | ||
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I added a bit about temporarily draining and permanently damming rivers and linked to a movie I recorded of doing just that. I think there are ways that would be easier on the dwarves and less micromanagey - one way, perhaps, may be to blast a 3-wide section of the river floor, instead of a 1-wide one, and then build floors in the middle column, and then build floodgates on top of those - that should keep the pesky backflow (which made installing the floodgates so arduous) from interfering with the damming. --[[User:SL|SL]] 00:28, 30 November 2007 (EST) | I added a bit about temporarily draining and permanently damming rivers and linked to a movie I recorded of doing just that. I think there are ways that would be easier on the dwarves and less micromanagey - one way, perhaps, may be to blast a 3-wide section of the river floor, instead of a 1-wide one, and then build floors in the middle column, and then build floodgates on top of those - that should keep the pesky backflow (which made installing the floodgates so arduous) from interfering with the damming. --[[User:SL|SL]] 00:28, 30 November 2007 (EST) | ||
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== Draining brooks == | == Draining brooks == | ||
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== River Source tiles == | == River Source tiles == | ||
− | On my map a four tile wide river starts at the north edge of the map, winds around then branches into about six one tile wide fingers. The flow is from the fingers out to the north edge. At the tip of each finger is a tile marked "River Source". Some of these are above ground and some are just inside the mountain, one z-level from the surface. | + | On my map a four tile wide river starts at the north edge of the map, winds around then branches into about six one tile wide fingers. The flow is from the fingers out to the north edge. At the tip of each finger is a tile marked "River Source". Some of these are above ground and some are just inside the mountain, one z-level from the surface. |
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The source looks something like this, I've shortend it a bit, with the water flowing up. | The source looks something like this, I've shortend it a bit, with the water flowing up. | ||
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RRRR R River | RRRR R River | ||
RRRR S River Source | RRRR S River Source | ||
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− | + | I haven't seen mention of these River Source tiles before. I mention it because the article says "rivers presumably contain an unlimited amount of water and cannot be drained." Well, now we have a source for all that water. I'm going to dam each of the river sources, should be easier to dam each of the single tile fingers then the river itself, gaining full control over the river. Then I can close off all but one to see what the rate of flow is. I count eight source tiles feeding my four tile wide river. | |
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