My New World has no water

[Dagon]

I need suggestions, should I just delete and start over?
Day 1 save file and images of my set up screen and embark screen are here:
https://drive.google.com/drive/u/0/#folders/0B8B8Pm01AnaxdHY5Z0tXWFVrdXc/0B8B8Pm01AnaxSmhidHVudWRJNzQ/0B8B8Pm01AnaxS3ZiWDg3eHJoazg
I didn't realize when I clicked generate it had no water. Is this going to be a issue?

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by jovedagon:

Is this going to be a issue?

Not really.

You can also build custom bodies of water later (although there is a risk it might bug). All it means is that you'll have a little harder time to start with, because you do not have a Well you can fall back on.

[Dagon]

I was messing around with settings like the kingdom center no clue what it is though.
If I did a hole with it fill up with rain water. I was thinking of like a small multi-level lake in center of my base with open area for animals and farm sort of like a fancy courtyard of castle
Day 7 I have just saved in another folder in that area called day 7. Not sure if digging if I have done is good idea or log floor was good idea. But log floor just temporary until I got something better and all my basic stuff is covered.
I asked a noobish question in Kanark's thread, perhaps I should ask here too. How do I install back up sav files if I need to go back?

[Eskidead]

Originally posted by Jossis:

I believe you can set up a well without being over water and it will provide you with drinks.

Try building a well on bare land - and you will quickly see that you can't, as it's red. Only when placed on top of a tile of water will it turn green and you can build it.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by jovedagon:

If I did a hole with it fill up with rain water.

1x1 holes will fill with water during rain. Make several 1x1 holes next to each other, wait till they are ~25% full, then break the connecting blocks, and you'll have a big basin full of water that will fill up the more it rains.

XXRX
XXAXXXX
XOxOxOX
XOxOxOX
XOxOxOX
XXXXXXX


X = Border
O = Hole
x=Wall you'll remove
R=Ramp/Stairs
A=Wall you rebuild

Results in a 9x9 basin full of water after 2-3 rainfalls.

Originally posted by jovedagon:

How do I install back up sav files if I need to go back?

Just copy the file over the old one.

[kevinshow]

I think the idea of making a well in the first spring may have been a guide to some earlier versions of Gnomoria. Even when I first got the game, well over 1 year ago, having drinks was never a problem. Even just one gnome dedicated to keeping fruit drink levels at 100 or so, was enough for the first 1-3 years.

I say 100 to start because if he kept the drink inventory to that level, you could still use him for other jobs at the beginning when the number of gnomes available was so essential to every task.

[Ishan451]

Originally posted by navorskatie:

Even when I first got the game, well over 1 year ago, having drinks was never a problem.

I've been playing Gnomoria for.. soon to be 2 years now... and i have needed a well once. And i was glad i had built it ;)

Redundancies are never a bad idea, especially if they require so little effort.

[Dagon]

I create another spot called Applecreep. And one called Lovefly with no water I am going to go back to see if I can do well with no water there. Applecreep I was able to place a well on top of this hill fort I am developing. Only thing is I got a third animal and it was male and when I changed the male number they seem to be letting run away and no butcher showed up. I don't know really how to fix it. How do I get the butcher to butcher or rancher to actually watch the pasture when it seems to be ignoring that its his first job? also can I animal corpses inside without making the Gnomes sick?

[Ishan451]

The well won't provide you with water if there is no water beneath it. Its not magic :)


As for the corpses... they despawn eventually, but no ill effects (yet).

[Vermillion Cardinal]

Originally posted by jovedagon:

How do I get the butcher to butcher or rancher to actually watch the pasture when it seems to be ignoring that its his first job?

Make sure you have the "Automatically butcher excess livestock" option enabled in your Butcher Shop, and that your Rancher is not preoccupied with other tasks (which should be easy if you didn't touch the starter Rancher's job description). If the Rancher does have other jobs (like mine, who is also involved in agriculture and horticulture), you can manually set the Workshop priority in his job list higher than everything else.