I cannot figure out a tall dam

[I'm Trash]

Can someone explain to me how this is supposed to work WITHOUT cutting off the bottom tiles of water?

[FDru]

Is your issue that you want a really tall floodgate?

[I'm Trash]

I mean I'd like that. But if I could get a solid drip system going of some kind that's ok too

[jaquig]

you always cut off any layers below floodgate level with dams.
The way to store water to any height and have access to all of it downstream is build your dam except for 1 column of it. literally the 1 space wide hole from bottom to top will only allow a limited amount of water through the dam letting you have the steady flow and all the water behind the dam available.

[City Builder]

so basically this?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2824944294

[I'm Trash]

SO I did that, But it was not a trickle of water. It like FLOODED my area.

Can you screenshot what you mean?

[ziplip]

Originally posted by Hapless Tea Farmer:

SO I did that, But it was not a trickle of water. It like FLOODED my area.

Can you screenshot what you mean?

how much water is behind the gate when you open it up? I usually set my gates to 2.5 for a slow release and zero when want to flood an area out. Oh that is with the tallest flood gates.

[I'm Trash]

So, I think I just am stuck on the idea that you can have controllable water at a depth beyond 3. More and more it's just looking like there's no possible way to do it with the current things in the game. Which is fine, a deep reservoir and tiers of pumps absolutely works. But, just wanted something like a gigantic reservoir I could slowly release.

I did figure out a way to to do it with the mechanical pump... BUT per 4 levels, you're spending that 700 hp so, It does come at a pretty big cost.

[City Builder]

Originally posted by Hapless Tea Farmer:

SO I did that, But it was not a trickle of water. It like FLOODED my area.

Can you screenshot what you mean?

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2825509419

If the dam is 3 or more levels below the floodgate then it will flood the area, but if its 2 or less then it doesn't flood which means we can still only build up to 5 high.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2825514610
the devs need to develop unlimited floodgates by having bottom gates