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dfreveal will show aquifers - just be careful to not unpause, but hit 'd' 'm' to designate a mining area - aquifers (and any other wet stone features, e.g. river borders, etc...) will blink blue.

Aquifiers don't show up as wet stone though, do they? I thought the wet stone warning only happened if the water was actually there, and aquifiers don't produce water until a side is open.

Yea, just tested it. Either the game lied about there being an aquifier or the aquifier tiles don't automatically show up as wet.

Aquifers don't show up as wet stone though, do they? I thought the wet stone warning only happened if the water was actually there, and aquifers don't produce water until a side is open.

Yea, just tested it. Either the game lied about there being an aquifer or the aquifer tiles don't automatically show up as wet.

If you smooth or build a standalone wall, or a wall at the end of a line of walls, you get a circle, representing it as a pillar.

Systematically culled 90% of the fort's children and babies due to FPS issues. The resulting tantrum spiral killed about 200 dwarves. Oops.

Look on the bright side. More FPS now 

Quote from: deoxy on December 07, 2010, 05:14:32 pm

I map out a LARGE area (enough for several forges, smelters, etc), then fill it to 7/7 (no sloshing, etc), then pour water over the only way the magma gets in, so it stays 7/7 forever.  Easier on the processor, easier on the player.

Would not a floodgate accomplish he same thing?

floodgates can be destroyed by building destroyers, at least one of which can live in magma. a cast obsidian wall is impenetrable.

well.... i have tons of iron ore and dolomite so im good for the steel components. Its just that i have dug past 50 z-levels of crap and no magma yet. any idea which z-level is the magma sea>

dolomite

Mine out your dolomite layers. Dolomite, as all sedimentary layers, can contain Lingite and bituminous coal which can be turned into fuel at a smelter (each use 1 unit of fuel to smelt, coal becomes 3 units of fuel and lingite 2 units, giving a net gain of 2 and 1 if you're using a conventional smelter). Magma makes things more convenient, but unless you planned ahead and embarked on a volcano, it's a lot easier to just use coal to fuel things. Dig out a bunch, quantum-stockpile it by your forges, set one or two to constantly make it into fuel.

Recettear?

The word exists outside that game you realize.