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Originally posted by WomanTheatre:
<STRONG>A shower? Like a mini-waterfall?  Sounds like a cool idea, how does it work exactly?</STRONG>

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It's not too complicated, it just takes lots of thinking and design to get it to work with your fortress.

The problem I had was that I had to dig out my dining hall again so I had room for the showered entrance. Also, the floors above and below were crowded with stuff, so I had to consider my space efficiency.

But, basicaly, it goes something like this:
A 7 long hallway is placed, with doors every other tile (to keep in mist and water) and grates in between thes doors (to drain the water). Below, under all the grates, is a channel. This goes a bit past the end of the dining room wall.

On the dining room level, outside the walls, is a hole leading to the draining reservoir.A pump takes the water from there and puts it into a 2x2 room.

Above this is another pump that takes the water from there and puts it above the dining hall entrance, where a single holy above a grate lets water fall through.

You should get the idea. This was my first real water project, it just takes some trial and error, and a few controlled outside tests so you know how everything works.

How you power this stuff is up to you. I have 2 water wheels and 5 windmills, but you don't need NEARLY that much unless you need to have gear axles travel very far to get from your power source to your pumps. I still had 100 power units left over.

I made an emergency shut-off lever as well, just in case something happens.

Just experiment, and you shoudl figure it out.

The best way to find sneaking things is to funnel them somewhere heavily guarded. For example: to get into  my fort, you can either swim across a river overflowing with carp, or go through 1 of 2 gates in a 1000+ unit long stone wall that is armed with cage traps, then continue down a road with fortificationed towers every so often, and weapon traps everywhere.

Nothing but thieves get past the cage traps.

Make an armor stockpile.

Disable "usable" stuff from going there.

Presto! An area for all your unusable clothes that can be melted or dumped.

Yes yes and yes.

Pets don't need to eat or drink, and dwarves only need an accesible food and water source.

Hit u, select a dwarf, then hit v (or is it c!?) to zoom to him.

My recommendation would be to move to using querns. Setting up three rows of three can churn out any amount of unprocessed food in not too long. Try it, that's what my old fort did, and I started getting more cave wheat products than I knew what to do with.

Seriously, I may have actually set a record for most food. I had 4 z levels that was nearly all food stockpiles, and I had at least 2,000 barrels of food, and I was constantly dumping barrels of it into pits.

Lemming Fortress

 

Ah. I had always heard of people using channels to transport water, but I never knew why. I had assumed they magically moved water faster or something.