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Listen to Duke (always good advise)

You can skip the cistern if you just pump straight from the brook into your aqueduct. Put a waterwheel on the brook and you should be able to pump 5 tiles even in scorching, but I'd put the aqueduct one z-level below the level of your farms, assuming that is at or below the level of the pump. Put a lever on the power source so you can turn if off if you need to work on anything later.

At the chasm, build a platform across, walls on the sides, and floor over the top to keep it totally isolated. If you have any underground water features (river, cave lake) you'll want to build roads over the aqueduct so you don't get tower caps, but if there's just the brook don't sweat that.

The reason to come in 1 z-level below the farms is so you can use a single dwarf powered pump to raise the water to your farms and cut off any risk of flooding. Remember the pressure from the brook pump will try and raise water at the fortress end of the aqueduct to the level of the pump, and i'll just keep pushing. You don't want that.

With this setup, you can leave the pumps running to fill the aqueduct with no harm, and use the pump on the fortress side to regulate when to water the farms. If you are worried about trolls taking out your pump, put a solid building around it - easy since you can build on the brook. No doors, just solid walls. Tear a wall down if you need to work on it.

Both ashery and dyer shops use a bucket. I'm not aware of any other that does.

Kittens. They don't get adopted when chained up.

So what if they get slaughtered, isn't that what you do with kittens anyway?

I just had a child make this:

Nonshutsalir Giken Stigaz, Bewitchedadore the Lightning of Rasping, a turtle bone bed

I'm quite fond of this though:

Nethdezrem Thumsat, Balancedslow the Muscular Stroke, a Platinum war hammer

I am shocked and appalled that no one's mentioned dwarf manager yet.

Maybe we're all Mac users.

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The best way to do manage moods is to remember that all skills fit in to two categories: skills that a mood will use, and skills that a mood won't use. For example, a mood won't use lye-making or fishing or wood-cutting or soap-making, etc. However, a mood will use engraving, mining, tanning, etc.

Agreed, but one of my first fey moods was with the guy I reserved to be a weaponsmith who immediately made a platinum war hammer. My 3rd fey mood produced a gold crossbow. The strategy you describe makes it even more likely that you'll get a massive wealth increase (triggering an immigration onslaught) than just producing a diorite earring or a mica floodgate.

(And the platinum war hammer is awesome. I just had a gobbo launched about 10 tiles into a stone wall where he promptly exploded into about 10 body parts.)

Quote from: Ivefan on February 27, 2009, 05:32:25 am

designating stockpiles in the channels works as well

really??

Yeah, stockpiles prevent growth - mainly I suspect to prevent the need for Toady to code up 'what happens if a tree grows in the middle of your stockpile underneath a bin?' Of course, he never bothered to consider 'what happens if 27 trees grow in the middle of your pump ladder and you spend a massive amount of time unwalling chambers and cutting trees to get your wells working again while 41 injured dwarves die of toe injuries because their yellow toe prevented them from drinking booze'. But it's good that he was thinking of the possible plight of my cat leather.