Incorporating Waterfalls

[Nipply]

What would be the best way to use this waterfall to mist my dwarves in a tavern?

I read that you could mine out the back and add fortifications, but I'm worried about flooding inside my base.

https://ibb.co/2kwkkH8

[VoiD]

This is by no means an "expert opinion" just what I did, I'll paste it here from another thread:

Originally posted by VoiD:

Other than the tips above one thing you can do is: Create a mist generator in a place they frequently visit, like a crucial corridor in your fortress, but this takes some time and it's annoying to explain.

Or just create a small waterfall around the main stairs connecting all the internal levels of your fortress (you might not want to give it free access to caves and the outside, just the internal stuff).

the tl;dr is that whenever water falls a Z level it can create some mist, that mist, when it splashes dwarves, makes them feel happy, if you place it somewhere you know every single dwarf will visit at some point you'll quickly stack that bonus to everyone.
I too was having some tantrum spirals and I had to expell some problematic dwarves with bad memories, but since I made this the overall mood started to improve greatly.

Do keep in mind that falling water can harm your FPS though.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918479568
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918478953
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918479005
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918479032

Oh, and don't forget all of that water need to go somewhere, so make a path, like always, have some flood gates ready @ the entrance and exit just in case you need to close the water flow for some reason in the future, then make a path to the edge of the map, sooth and create fortifications so the water can get out.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918482201
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918482232

It takes a bit of work but honestly it's quite simple and it doesn't require a constant flow of materials + dwarven time.

PS: Don't mind the Murdered guests, I have no idea why they all turned hostile, and I CBA going through horrible menus to find out, so I just pretend nothing is happening, or consider it one of many DF bugs.

PS²: If you're briging water from the surface over 70 levels above, like me, in a huge water reservoir do keep in mind the water pressure is going to be crazy and it could flood your fortress, don't connect to it directly, either use a diagonal tile or a pump to reset the pressure, you also don't want a strong flow of water anyway, it takes a single 1/7 tile of water falling down to create mist.

[Nipply]

Originally posted by VoiD:

This is by no means an "expert opinion" just what I did, I'll paste it here from another thread:

Originally posted by VoiD:

Other than the tips above one thing you can do is: Create a mist generator in a place they frequently visit, like a crucial corridor in your fortress, but this takes some time and it's annoying to explain.

Or just create a small waterfall around the main stairs connecting all the internal levels of your fortress (you might not want to give it free access to caves and the outside, just the internal stuff).

the tl;dr is that whenever water falls a Z level it can create some mist, that mist, when it splashes dwarves, makes them feel happy, if you place it somewhere you know every single dwarf will visit at some point you'll quickly stack that bonus to everyone.
I too was having some tantrum spirals and I had to expell some problematic dwarves with bad memories, but since I made this the overall mood started to improve greatly.

Do keep in mind that falling water can harm your FPS though.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918479568
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918478953
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918479005
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918479032

Oh, and don't forget all of that water need to go somewhere, so make a path, like always, have some flood gates ready @ the entrance and exit just in case you need to close the water flow for some reason in the future, then make a path to the edge of the map, sooth and create fortifications so the water can get out.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918482201
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2918482232

It takes a bit of work but honestly it's quite simple and it doesn't require a constant flow of materials + dwarven time.

PS: Don't mind the Murdered guests, I have no idea why they all turned hostile, and I CBA going through horrible menus to find out, so I just pretend nothing is happening, or consider it one of many DF bugs.

PS²: If you're briging water from the surface over 70 levels above, like me, in a huge water reservoir do keep in mind the water pressure is going to be crazy and it could flood your fortress, don't connect to it directly, either use a diagonal tile or a pump to reset the pressure, you also don't want a strong flow of water anyway, it takes a single 1/7 tile of water falling down to create mist.

I'll have to try that. I've been too intimidated to try messing with water as I've heard the horror stories, but the benefits are pretty high so I'm sure it would be worth a few dead dwarves if I pull it off.

[VoiD]

Tbh water is pretty easy to deal with, I think most horror stories are from older versions of the game, as a new player I didn't have many issues with it.

Unless you open a big river right on top of your base, or create a direct path for the water to flow tih 70z levels of pressure there's always enough time to simply dig around it and let the water drain into some edge of the map, or even a cave, just gotta react quickly.

Edit: I suppose a more elegant design would be, instead of doing that messy double corridor from my 2nd screenshot, drop water from 1 tile above, right into the center of that little square, and let it spread out evenly into the 4 grate slots using a single corridor.

Kinda off-topic but that messy thinking I did there is a prime example of bad programing, I mean, it works, but it could be better.