Guide for Artificial Waterfall anywhere?

[treehann]

I can only find guides for the old Dwarf Fortress for creating an artificial waterfall and I don't necessarily trust them since the game has undergone major changes for Steam. Does anyone know of an existing guide for creating an artificial waterfall? Thanks in advance.

[db48x]

It’s really easy to do. Just go do it in the most obvious way possible. Seriously, it’s just falling water, not rocket science.

[Xcorps]

Here you go.

https://youtu.be/5IYsQ9FjtfA

Summary:

You need several shops, rock and wood a good understanding of how to move through the z layers, and a little practice. Build a working model outside your main fort above ground so that you get a feel for it. Plan carefully if you are going to run power through your fort. Use buckets to energize. Don't supply your pumps with unlimited water or you will make a mess.

He's got another video with mist generators, check out his channel.

[McFuzz]

The game functions the same as the old versions. The only thing different is the UI and graphics. Guides should still be accurate, except for exactly what buttons to press.

[jeetrix]

-have a water source like river or aquifier
-build some floodgates and some canal to your base then lead it through a channeled shaft covered with floor grates through your base somewhere
-catch the water under your base in a tunnel and let it run off the map by smoothing+fortifiing the map border

MIST + HAPPY DORFS

[treehann]

Thanks to the commenters that provided useful input.

Originally posted by jeetrix:

let it run off the map by smoothing+fortifiing the map border

I ended up doing almost all this to a T from mimicking a random youtuber whom I saw making fortifications. I didn't do the smoothing though -- What does smoothing do to help water run off? (I think it isn't working for mine, perhaps because I didn't smooth?)

[jeetrix]

you have to "carve" fortifications out of the outer-map-border, not construct,
afaik you can only carve them out of smoothed natural wall. the carve fortification is under the smoothing submenu

so, dig up to the map border, then smooth the outer border, then carve fortifications out of the smoothed border (this puts holes in the map border)

https://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2014:Fortification

"Curiously, a fortification carved into a tile at the very edge of the map will allow water or magma to drain through it and off of the map. "

[Savok]

Originally posted by treehann:

Thanks to the last 3/4 commenters that provided actual useful input.

Originally posted by jeetrix:

let it run off the map by smoothing+fortifiing the map border

I ended up doing almost all this to a T from mimicking a random youtuber whom I saw making fortifications. I didn't do the smoothing though -- What does smoothing do to help water run off? (I think it isn't working for mine, perhaps because I didn't smooth?)

Smoothing lets you turn the tile into a fortification. A fortification has a hole in it that water can flow through.

[db48x]

I just checked. It is no longer necessary to smooth a wall before carving it into a fortification, as it was in previous versions. Incidentally, the hole in the fortification is called an embrasure.

[High Lord Denix]

It's pretty rare the core game actually changes, new things just get added on and integrated, 90% of guides going back even ten years should still be accurate and relevant.

Just for future reference.

[harlequin_corps]

Originally posted by db48x:

I just checked. It is no longer necessary to smooth a wall before carving it into a fortification, as it was in previous versions. Incidentally, the hole in the fortification is called an embrasure.

This is.. uh. There is a tiny bit of misinformation here. A constructed wall is considered a smooth wall. So if you build a wall, no, you don't have to, and can't, smooth it before modifying it to be a fortified structure. If it is a dug rough hewn wall though it DOES have to be smoothed before carving fortifications.

[harlequin_corps]

Take your stream or aquifer and let it run down your stairs until you hit a growing level, let it flow out and leave mud when you start to limit the water supply just enough to keep the waterfall/wells/footbaths. Don't know why it's called a footbath, they have to swim through it, but it does wash all the blood and vomit off them.