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DF Gameplay Questions / Re: Will not allow creation of water zone
« on: March 25, 2012, 10:01:53 am »
I believe my save-game was bugged on this issue now. After I went back to it the next day the problem reversed, I was able to designate drinking water in the very space I was unable to the day before and my existing designation above-ground on the river which had worked, then read 0 water source. Go figure.
1. So is there a "safe" way to do a miasma vent to the surface? Just build fortifications around the vent maybe? I've been building a series of doors to limit the spread of miasma underground which seems to be working alright so maybe I'm trying to make this more complicated than it needs to be.
3. I always make my floodgate out of stone. I don't see how you build a floodgate on the river side of the flood-gate though, won't the dwarves drown in the river trying to get to it? I always build a flood-gate, link it to the lever, lower the gate, then dig out the last piece of dirt blocking the river. Maybe I'm missing a basic best-practice here for draining the river.
There was a siege outside but they never attacked the flood-gate. Sadly I lost that fortress, which was my best so far, when I opened the draw-bridge briefly to allow some migrants in. I had every task on every dwarf disabled and nothing designated outside and yet every dwarf dropped what they were doing and ran outside to be slaughtered, I was pretty pissed off and don't understand why the retards ran outside the fortress at all. Next time I'll try to make more of an air-lock type system to allow migrants in and keep the existing dwarves inside, I just wasn't sure if the migrants would path into the fortress if I had locked doors that were specifically preventing the inside dwarves from getting out.
I still have much to learn but my fortresses are getting better.
1. So is there a "safe" way to do a miasma vent to the surface? Just build fortifications around the vent maybe? I've been building a series of doors to limit the spread of miasma underground which seems to be working alright so maybe I'm trying to make this more complicated than it needs to be.
3. I always make my floodgate out of stone. I don't see how you build a floodgate on the river side of the flood-gate though, won't the dwarves drown in the river trying to get to it? I always build a flood-gate, link it to the lever, lower the gate, then dig out the last piece of dirt blocking the river. Maybe I'm missing a basic best-practice here for draining the river.
There was a siege outside but they never attacked the flood-gate. Sadly I lost that fortress, which was my best so far, when I opened the draw-bridge briefly to allow some migrants in. I had every task on every dwarf disabled and nothing designated outside and yet every dwarf dropped what they were doing and ran outside to be slaughtered, I was pretty pissed off and don't understand why the retards ran outside the fortress at all. Next time I'll try to make more of an air-lock type system to allow migrants in and keep the existing dwarves inside, I just wasn't sure if the migrants would path into the fortress if I had locked doors that were specifically preventing the inside dwarves from getting out.
I still have much to learn but my fortresses are getting better.
1. Last questions answered first. A floor hatch can get hacked and destroyed.
2. My chutes are up/down stairs, with up and down on the ends, and all straight aways paved with stone block, if the water is going to be turned on/off, to prevent trees from growing and making dwarf killing clearups. Drowning.
3. Did you say a siege is going on outside by the river? And you opened the floodgate? Or not? Sounds to me like your floodgate got destroyed off its link, and now its sitting there blocking the flow. The lever won't move it, so it won't produce water ingress. A new link needs created to allow for the Pressure Plate to work. Make sure you create a Fortification on the outside of the floodgate, to prevent enemies from reaching your floodgate.
PS. 3. happens alot if your floodgate is wood, and not stone.