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IT WORKS.  When water slowly diffuses toward the drop 1 and 2 units drop at a time.  Dwarves get happy mist thoughts AND get clean, and because the volume of water is small and the system is part of a meeting hall, contaminants are usually instantly cleaned up by idle dwarves.

As I suspected, you need to give the water on the top level some time to diffuse so only 1 or 2 units fall at a time.  The easiest way to do this is to put a diagonal bend after the pump.  My current design actually only uses one pump, with 3 squares being the distance the water has after the diagonal bend to diffuse out to a 2-wide flow.  Since the path the water takes is about 4 times as long as the setup in the original post, the reservoir at the bottom needs to be significantly expanded before starting the system up.  The result is a larger and more complicated system, with more water flow.

update?  orthoclase and mica should be fine.  what are you seeing that makes you think the orthoclase is melting?

well, at some point you're going to want to build a cistern near your fortress anyway, and there is no reason not to put your farms several z-levels down.  However, you may not want to take time to build a mechanism to link to a door linked to a long channel right now, or you may not want to do it without designing it carefully and seeing how your fortress will be laid out.  In that case you can just dig out your farm area (you reall don't need more than a 3x3 or 4x4 area).  then dig 1 z level above and channel out about 4 floor tiles, spaced out a bit over where you want your farm plots.  Designate them as pit/ponds (each hole as a separate zone) and switch them to ponds.  Then if you build some buckets your dwarves will dump water from the upper z-level down to the farm level, which will muddy the floor without requiring any special digging architecture or design.  The downside here is that your dwarves may have to make quite a few trips.

PS THIS GAME ALSO HAS ADAMANTINE HOLY CRAP

in the newest version high boots are not foreign.  A few previous versions they were.

remember that unless you mod dwarf ethics, dwarves will not butcher or eat creatures with the [CAN_LEARN] tag.

hahahahahahahaha.