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I would imagine a more useful way to use the magma for cooking would be in a convection sort of method; use the magma to heat air/water and then use that to to cook the food.  That is, after all, how we manage to use fire to cook food; we tend not to just put the food right into the burning wood/coal, but cook it in the heat of the gas above the fire.

Quote from: dominusnovus on September 09, 2012, 08:54:31 pm

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 09, 2012, 06:12:09 pm

We'd need to be able to set up cranks to generate power if we wanted to, so that we could easily set up realistic drawbridges.

Agreed.  Could function similarly to pump operating; cranks could be used to power pumps as well.  There should be animal wheels (and tread wheels), too.

Power needs to be easier to get before we start needing it for everything.

Hence the suggestion of cranks, animal wheels, and tread wheels; all ways to produce power.  It'd be fun to put tread wheels in the fortress prison and punish the lawbreakers with manual labor.

We'd need to be able to set up cranks to generate power if we wanted to, so that we could easily set up realistic drawbridges.

Agreed.  Could function similarly to pump operating; cranks could be used to power pumps as well.  There should be animal wheels (and tread wheels), too.

Yes. It will fill up to exactly the height of the waterfall. It will not, however, overflow the upper banks and drain upstream, which I believe is what the OP was asking about.

Also,

Quote from: dominusnovus on September 02, 2012, 11:34:51 am

Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on September 01, 2012, 10:56:14 pm

I think this is in the wrong subforum.

For now, it won't affect anything beyond your fortress.

Thats what I get for posting right before going to bed... Just spent 10 minutes trying to figure out where my post went, while looking in the questions forum.

You can move your threads, you know. The Move Topic button is in the bottom-left corner of the page.

Good to know!  Never saw that feature on any forums I've been on before.  Very handy!

And to clarify, here's specifically what I was asking:

Stream A empties into River B through a nice tall waterfall.  You dam River B after Stream A falls into it.  The rules for pressure state that the river will fill up to the level of the waterfall.  However, is it possible that the river would drain out the upstream end of River B, which is below the level of the waterfall?

Its obvious that the supposedly larger creatures are simply incredibly dense, but not larger.  Like Melmacians, they don't grow larger, they grow denser.  Problem solved.

[WORLD_GEN]
[TITLE:SIXTH]
[SEED:3tAAb060eg7H7XPTPGn4]
[HISTORY_SEED:7iYz4EfEYRnUHQ9C59vi]
[NAME_SEED:DZ6B1eXRnyRau5Xn9tdg]
[CREATURE_SEED:sxe0iIWKmiWXEtuKsFhi]
[DIM:257:257]
[EMBARK_POINTS:1500]
[END_YEAR:100]
[BEAST_END_YEAR:200:80]
[REVEAL_ALL_HISTORY:1]
[CULL_HISTORICAL_FIGURES:1]
[ELEVATION:1:400:800:202]
[RAINFALL:0:100:400:101]
[TEMPERATURE:50:100:200:101]
[DRAINAGE:0:100:400:101]
[VOLCANISM:0:100:400:101]
[SAVAGERY:0:100:400:101]
[ELEVATION_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[RAIN_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[DRAINAGE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[TEMPERATURE_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[SAVAGERY_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[VOLCANISM_FREQUENCY:1:1:1:1:1:1]
[MINERAL_SCARCITY:100]
[MEGABEAST_CAP:100]
[SEMIMEGABEAST_CAP:200]
[TITAN_NUMBER:50]
[TITAN_ATTACK_TRIGGER:100:0:100000]
[DEMON_NUMBER:25]
[NIGHT_TROLL_NUMBER:26]
[BOGEYMAN_NUMBER:26]
[VAMPIRE_NUMBER:26]
[WEREBEAST_NUMBER:26]
[SECRET_NUMBER:52]
[REGIONAL_INTERACTION_NUMBER:52]
[DISTURBANCE_INTERACTION_NUMBER:52]
[EVIL_CLOUD_NUMBER:26]
[EVIL_RAIN_NUMBER:26]
[GOOD_SQ_COUNTS:25:250:0]
[EVIL_SQ_COUNTS:25:250:0]
[PEAK_NUMBER_MIN:25]
[PARTIAL_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
[COMPLETE_OCEAN_EDGE_MIN:0]
[VOLCANO_MIN:200]
[REGION_COUNTS:SWAMP:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:DESERT:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:FOREST:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:MOUNTAINS:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:OCEAN:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:GLACIER:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:TUNDRA:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:GRASSLAND:0:0:0]
[REGION_COUNTS:HILLS:0:0:0]
[EROSION_CYCLE_COUNT:50]
[RIVER_MINS:800:800]
[PERIODICALLY_ERODE_EXTREMES:1]
[OROGRAPHIC_PRECIPITATION:1]
[SUBREGION_MAX:2750]
[CAVERN_LAYER_COUNT:3]
[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MIN:25]
[CAVERN_LAYER_OPENNESS_MAX:100]
[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MIN:25]
[CAVERN_LAYER_PASSAGE_DENSITY_MAX:100]
[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MIN:0]
[CAVERN_LAYER_WATER_MAX:100]
[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_1:1]
[HAVE_BOTTOM_LAYER_2:1]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_GROUND:15]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_1:5]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_2:1]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_3:1]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_4:1]
[LEVELS_ABOVE_LAYER_5:2]
[LEVELS_AT_BOTTOM:1]
[CAVE_MIN_SIZE:25]
[CAVE_MAX_SIZE:50]
[MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:50]
[NON_MOUNTAIN_CAVE_MIN:75]
[ALL_CAVES_VISIBLE:1]
[SHOW_EMBARK_TUNNEL:2]
[TOTAL_CIV_NUMBER:25]
[TOTAL_CIV_POPULATION:15000]
[SITE_CAP:1044]
[PLAYABLE_CIVILIZATION_REQUIRED:1]
[ELEVATION_RANGES:0:0:0]
[RAIN_RANGES:0:0:0]
[DRAINAGE_RANGES:0:0:0]
[SAVAGERY_RANGES:0:0:0]
[VOLCANISM_RANGES:0:0:0]
There's also a bunch of repeating numbers after the Volcanism line; those have any use?

Quote from: Halnoth on September 04, 2012, 06:53:17 pm

Is it in the current version? Can we have the seed and pictures of the location?

What Halnoth said. Only let me add on a desire to EAT YOUR HEART TO TAKE FROM YOU YOUR MANA.

Real quick: I'm trying to follow the wiki's guide on exporting a seed from fortress mode, I haven't generated any 'world_gen_param' file.  I did generate a 'hotcastle_param_region6' file; is that what I should be looking for?