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Alright, let me rephrase my issue:
I'm a bit fuzzy on why the chain pump would be practically different from a screw pump. The both move water, and Wikipedia doesn't explain why the chain pump would be a lot bigger, clunkier, more expensive, and less efficient at moving water.

For that matter...Why would anyone BUILD the chain pump you described? A screw pump can be made from 3 logs; a chain pump as you described it would take 3 stones and a log and cloth for every z-level. Okay, I'm starting to realize that you're thinking that chain pumps would replace pump stacks, but you didn't explain that very well.


"Ya know," your suggestion only came to the part I look at (i.e. the part which has suggestions I probably haven't seen and that the OP remembers clearly) recently, and, again...

Quote from: Neowulf on March 23, 2011, 11:23:32 am

Yes I know this has been suggested before, but my specifics are different and the board threwup a warning message not to necro threads.

FYI, necros are AOK and, in theory, SOP in the Suggestions subforum.

Hm.

Would these fountains be in ancient ruins, presumably having been enchanted by the builders?
Would they just be there, part of a landscape? I this case, they'd probably be more like geysers or springs than fountains.
Could you build fountains and enchant them? Heck, being able to build fountains and gargoyles would be neat!

If you had no way to rise above the lowest dregs of society at home, but there was call for your chosen profession elsewhere, would you leave? Assuming not much threat to life and limb, of course.
I would, and dwarves should, too. Of course, as Footkerchief will likely point out, this isn't a unique idea.

Dwarves can parry with weapons and strike with shields. Other than that...yeah, for now at least, each kind of raw-defined item (prepared food, weapon, hat, tool, shoe, etc) is a specific type of item, with no overlap possible.

Or, use neato things like legendary dining rooms and mist generators to increase happiness. If you're fine with cheaty modding, you could always just mod in reactions to make free platinum (or whatever high-value metal suits your needs), fuel, dwarven syrup, etc.

They still drown in magma, they just don't burn.

Well, I guess we need some kind of distinction between public servants, officers, and aristocrats then.

I think 10 z-levels usually kills, 20 usually explodes.
With sufficient luck, good or bad, this can vary greatly. There have been (unverified) tales of dwarves dying from a single z-level of fall, and a lucky or cushioned dwarf could survive 10 z-levels or more.