Can you now drain water from the bottom of the wall?

[Joe Rogan]

Haven't had a chance to play since the new physics udpate. Can you now drain water from the bottom?

[ERROR_404]

In the experimental branch a sluice you can do that. You can build levee's over them and they will maintain a set height for the down stream water.

[BumpInTheNight]

Not just Sluices either, the regular Dam object and the Platform objects can be stacked with Levees above them as well.

[Seraphin]

You can even build a Düker* now. Already using them sucessfully to bypass bad water beneath rivers or lakes.

* Don't know the english word for a Düker, that's the thing I'm talking about:
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d2/D%C3%BCker_Schema.svg/1920px-D%C3%BCker_Schema.svg.png

If we would be allowed to build earth-blocks on platforms or overhangs we could even build natural looking tunnels then.

[danielprates]

i'be been meaning to ask this same thing.

See, most eletric power dams have the water output placed on the lower part of the dam, so that water pressure from all that water above will acumulate and generate a stronger stream of water, which will hit the turbine and create more power.

Up until now, you could accumulate water and funnei lt into a whatewheel, but you got more power as you bottlenecked water, that was it. Generating more water pressure via stacking a weight of water above the water flow wasn't possible - certainly because of it being impossible to build levees above empty spaces, but perhaps also because water pressure wasnt' moddeled with that in mind.

Is it possible to build actual hydromechanical dams now?

[BumpInTheNight]

Originally posted by danielprates:

i'be been meaning to ask this same thing.

See, most eletric power dams have the water output placed on the lower part of the dam, so that water pressure from all that water above will acumulate and generate a stronger stream of water, which will hit the turbine and create more power.

Up until now, you could accumulate water and funnei lt into a whatewheel, but you got more power as you bottlenecked water, that was it. Generating more water pressure via stacking a weight of water above the water flow wasn't possible - certainly because of it being impossible to build levees above empty spaces, but perhaps also because water pressure wasnt' moddeled with that in mind.

Is it possible to build actual hydromechanical dams now?

Yes that's exactly what they changed is now the water physics are properly done so they now allowed us to stack solid levees on top of those three other objects finally. The only one I wish they'd redone was to allow us to stack directly on top of the gates too.

Water still has unlimited speed when moving horizontally though. But the same trick of forcing it to 'fall' over a ledge still has a capped rate of speed so you still need to do that to really throttle the amount of water that can get through your openings.