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Have a dwarf haul it around until some goblins show up, then use it as a club.

Quote from: LealNightrunner on October 21, 2010, 11:22:34 pm

I realize your fortress is pretty much crumbling into pieces... but how'd you get through the aquifer, and how thick was it?

Two z levels. Since the map is frozen 10 out of 12 months of the year all i had to do was channel and the ramp made would instantly freeze into a block of ice when the water poured in. That's how my miners all died, they kept walking through the ramp to get back to the meeting zone as it filled and froze over. Not a good idea actually. There are only two sane dwarves left, one head smith with his babbling naked lover (yay for him on the naked part?) and one soldier that fails to give two shits. the other four survivors were eaten by beak dogs.

Just pierce the aquifer through a more conventional means if you ever want to; dwarves simply can't comprehend the world around them yet and don't realize that water+freezing biome+dwarf in watery tile=harpy lick (like a salt lick except meatier)

Ah... I have the misfortune of having a 3-Z aquifer, and two of them are unsmoothable soil.  I got through the first layer pretty easily but this introduced the problem that as you go down each Z you rapidly run out of space to operate pumps, cause each level shrinks your available space by 2 on the width and length... My map does Freeze, for about 20 days in the dead of winter,  very narrow window to work with but that's probably going to be my last ditch effort.

I realize your fortress is pretty much crumbling into pieces... but how'd you get through the aquifer, and how thick was it?

Splitting your fort, or moving entirely down there, are probably your easiest choices.

Pumping isn't terribly difficult, it's just very time consuming and can cause a lot of slowdown with all that fluid flow.

What bothers me is that this game can multi-core but on my dual core laptop it's never used more than 50% CPU. anyone know why?

DF is single-threaded, so it only uses one core.  If you watch the individual processor graphs you'll notice one of them spiking to 100% whenever it gets DF's thread.

Then then something called Windows Data Execution Protection closed DF before the next season's autosave kicked in.   Fuuuuuuuuuuu...

You can turn that off in Windows.

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc700810.aspx may help you.

EDIT: Although it's almost certainly a bug somewhere that DF triggered it in the first place.

Dwarves are, by definition, at least 60% plump helmet.