How to create pool for fishing?

[SullyCZ]

I am in snow world and i dont have any pool with any fish.I can melt snow co create water, but i cant create pool, just little on the ground.Any recommendation? :)

[HappyDays]

Hi thunderchick!

I had a similar problem. To create pools you need to make like a 'bowl' shape/upside down V shape in the ground.

Water AI in the game runs down slopes and hills and you can use this to your advantage by creating 'bowls' for it to fill up into.

On snow world you can make these above or below ground! Fish will spawn in them eventually!

Hope this helps! :)

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[Lenkdrache]

Nice of you to advertise your videos and not help the OP lol

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I always go three blocks deep, that way I can have 3 or 4 dwarves fishing and not run out of fish :)

[HappyDays]

Originally posted by Lenkdrache:

Nice of you to advertise your videos and not help the OP lol

Thunderchick, maybe this will help you:
http://prntscr.com/5932gg

I always go three blocks deep, that way I can have 3 or 4 dwarves fishing and not run out of fish :)

Thanks for your reply. I learned from watching other players that you can create bowl shapes to catch water so I was passing that knowledge onto thunderchick! :)
Stay Happy :)

[mikeydsc]

Make it out of stone or bricks. The first few things of water you put in it may get sucked in - seems like it has a saturation point before the water will accumulate. It can take a 100 buckets of water or more depending how big you make it. Lenkdrache has a decent pond going on there. You could do well to make a similar one. The fish do slowly replenish but it make take a reload of the game sometimes to get them spawning the first time.

If you are on the forest or the desert worlds, Happydays is correct, if you make it underground you can make a funnel above ground so the rain will funnel into it and then seal up the hole later. If you are on the ice world keep putting snow it and let it melt until you get what you need but it has to be underground.

[VanDamn]

Would be great to actually be able to place water

[mikeydsc]

Originally posted by MAD:

Would be great to actually be able to place water

Have you made buckets yet? If so just put the water in your quick bar and then select a spot either in or above the pool and click it with the water. The dwarves will put it in but may take alot to see any progress.

[VanDamn]

Oh didn´t know that, thanks! :)

[ehyder]

On the Ice world it is much faster to place ice blocks in the pool. It melts as several buckets of water. A good technique if you are making a pond is to make the stone containment area and put a bridge across the top. You can use that for fishing and place the ice blocks on the bridge to melt into your containment area. Just control a dwarf and keep popping on those ice blocks. Goes pretty quickly if you have enough ice.

[Whargod]

Wjat will hold water permanently? Is it only stone blocks? I tried with the stone walls but it just dried up over time.

[mikeydsc]

plain stones - it may take some water as the blocks seem to have to saturate first

[SullyCZ]

It works, thx to all :)

[Pestilence]

I used about 100 blocks of water to start off a pool that was 2 deep and about 8 wide. That was enough to get it going and then after some rain it was totally full and fish came a little while later.

[SigmaLance]

Can this pool work underground? I have a similar one with the same fish in it, but they will not fish in it. I can click the water and it shows the fishing pole icon, but they ignore it.

[ehyder]

Yes, I mostly fish in pools underground. Sometimes it takes a long time for a dwarf to get to a pariticular task. If you reall want someone to fish you will have to clear out your task queue; do not add any other activities until one of the dwarves starts fishing. Unfortunately you cannot manual control a dwarf and fish.

[SigmaLance]

The issue is the walkway above it. They will not fish from it. The dwarves display the 'blocked path' icon over their head. I had to lower the outer wall by one block and it works now.