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Originally posted by Misterstone:
You know, just in case some of the fortress's elfin or human er... guests want to strip naked and wrestle in it?

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Goblins would probably be doing that more then dwarves.
[However, that does bring up an interesting point:
How much liquid does a barrel (which is really just a large, sealed bucket) contain, and could you use barrels to transport a liquid from one area (a river) into another (a pond) or fill them with something and dump them into an area?
Having fountains flowing with booze in a reserve carved into the rock seems like something the dwarves would do if they have few barrels to keep it in.]

[ April 15, 2007: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

Press the ; key
Then l to load the movie, and p to play it.
[if you dont see the movie, make sure the file is in the /movies folder, NOT THE FOLDER WITH THE INTRO MOVIES!]

[ April 09, 2007: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]

Sweet, sweet work on the flooding. The radically moving numbers kind of look like ripples. Though i was expecting the lower level to fill nearly instantly and completely PWN the miner, i was a little confused as to why the water seemed so oddly thick. Probably just too adjusted to the speed of the "OH SHIT, WATER/LAVA FLOOD. FK!" flows that are in the current version, and also probably slowed down on purpose so you can more accurately gauge what your code is doing.

In any case, it's doing a fine job. Maybe your next video could be about...

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Originally posted by flap:
There is no option yet to remove the floor/roof between 2 z-levels?

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Channels.
Digging a channel = digging downwards
Digging out a staircase or a ramp also allows the destruction of ceilings (dwarves need to stand on something to successfully dig out something above them) It was stated somewhere around page 16 or something, i think, so it was easy to miss.

It'd be fun to link together all the little ponds outside your fort, dig a massive pit underground, put a grate on the top, and then completely drain every single body of water on the map. Then collect the fish that are flopping in the mud /on the grate.  
Or even better, build a 1x9x3 glass window and make a HUGE aquarium for your dining room.

It would be good though if air pressure did exist. You could dig downwards several floors, a short hallway, and then a few ramps up would result in a U-type shape, which if one end is capped will prevent water from entering the capped end...

Wait a moment! What if just a single invisible "air pressure" object is used, which then attempts to find a path to an "open air" tile?
This way you COULD have air pressure without actually simulating all of the air. Example:

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A vertical shaft filled with water, flooding a corridor and a ramp at the bottom with water, but because the (D)oor is closed, the "air pressure" entity cannot find a way to the surface, and as long as the door remains closed, the water wont move. Also, because moving upwards isn't exactly natural for water, the only time this entity would be spawned is when the water is considering moving upwards from one block to the next in the z axis.

[But as for the actual conversion of O2 to CO2... Eh, i'm alot less keen on that idea, as brilliant as ones' plans for air vents may be... If it's blocked off, everyone dies from CO poisoning. Not happy.]

[ April 06, 2007: Message edited by: Mechanoid ]