Damp rough stone block wall

[waryorx]

hey guys its me again. i read in forum that if i smooth the damp rocks or build a wall around it the damp stone wont let water in the room since the wall blocks it. i tried this and now my wall is damp tough stone block wall and this wall also let the water go to my hall. how can i dig deep lower section into my mountain nearly every tile is damp in some z levels and do i need to mine every single pile until i find a not damp one.
problem is my smoother is not fast enough to smooth it my only option is to build walls
please help me oh you veterans of fortress builders

[LastChime]

Check the layer above, aquifer walls produce water orthogonally and directly below

[The Trashman]

Originally posted by LastChime:

Check the layer above, aquifer walls produce water orthogonally and directly below

Do they not produce diagonally, too? I always thought they did

[waryorx]

so thast why oh so if i make straight stairs even if the wall is damp it wont wet the surface. but when will i know to above level has water. is there a way to check it cause at some point i need to mine that level

[LastChime]

Originally posted by The Trashman:

Originally posted by LastChime:

Check the layer above, aquifer walls produce water orthogonally and directly below

Do they not produce diagonally, too? I always thought they did

Nah that's why you can get away with just smoothing n/s/e/w of a stair shaft

[waryorx]

Originally posted by LastChime:

Originally posted by The Trashman:

Do they not produce diagonally, too? I always thought they did

Nah that's why you can get away with just smoothing n/s/e/w of a stair shaft

if they dont move diagnoally then why did my floor became a 7/7 water tank ???

[AlP]

Originally posted by waryorx:

Originally posted by LastChime:

Nah that's why you can get away with just smoothing n/s/e/w of a stair shaft

if they dont move diagnoally then why did my floor became a 7/7 water tank ???

Maybe you missed a wall somewhere, or dug into a ceiling.

Or maybe you have more than one type of aquifer.

There's literally a ton of possibilities.

[waryorx]

Originally posted by AlP:

Originally posted by waryorx:

if they dont move diagnoally then why did my floor became a 7/7 water tank ???

Maybe you missed a wall somewhere, or dug into a ceiling.

Or maybe you have more than one type of aquifer.

There's literally a ton of possibilities.

no i am sure i didnt miss any wall and i also replace them with block walls same thing happened, they also become damped but if i dont mine under a danm surface nothing happens. it seems they are diagonal :S but i mined nearly 10 levels and still damp water. It takes so much attention that i cant take care of my dwarves :S just missed a trader.

anyway if its diagnoal how do we know the level above is also wet ?

https://imgur.com/vKFqkh9

[Commisar Jon Fuklaw]

Aquifer water does not seep diagonally. Aquifer behavior is extremely well-documented. Water is coming from an aquifer above the room.

[Diarmuhnd]

Originally posted by waryorx:

no i am sure i didnt miss any wall ...
...but i mined nearly 10 levels and still damp water. It takes so much attention that i cant take care of my dwarves :S just missed a trader.

anyway if its diagnoal how do we know the level above is also wet ?

copy pasted from wiki:
"Water will also drop from the ceiling of an aquifer layer. A way you can deal with the aquifer leaking is to keep the column you are digging through the aquifer the same size so that there is no aquifer above you at any point."

Also, aquifers vary across your embark map. So in one spot it can be many layers deep and in other areas only a single layer or even none.

You simply need to play with light aquifers more so you are familiar with them. Sometimes its better digging a ramp down and having it leak slowly and drain out the side of the map, sometimes its better digging 5 single stairs down and finding the thinnest layer.

Lots of tutorials on youTube to teach you. Good luck

[LastChime]

Originally posted by Diarmuhnd:

"Water will also drop from the ceiling of an aquifer layer. A way you can deal with the aquifer leaking is to keep the column you are digging through the aquifer the same size so that there is no aquifer above you at any point."

Yeah that quote really needs the picture cause it reads bad....actually DF works better in general if you just don't acknowledge that ceilings are a thing. It means the floor of the aquifer layer above.

[Diarmuhnd]

Originally posted by LastChime:

Yeah that quote really needs the picture cause it reads bad....actually DF works better in general if you just don't acknowledge that ceilings are a thing. It means the floor of the aquifer layer above.

Yarp, its DF, floors are the ceiling. Blessed is Armok's wisdom.
And they leak if an aquifer is on that level.