You're directly tapping a brook there; water connected to a river source behaves funny with regards to pressure. Try capping it at the draw and installing a floodgate, or setting up a pump at the level you want your cisterns to fill to.
Love the opulently excessive square of that fortress.
Also impressive is how empty your jails are. What's the population? I can't get above 130 without having at least one or two jailed for unfulfilled work orders, and another one or two jailed for fistfights.
Remember that the waterfall at the end of your aqueduct might go to any of the three tiles in front of the opening, not just the one directly ahead. Box it off to make sure it falls only straight down. And of course, don't forget to overengineer your drainage; one flood can ruin your whole day.
Grates will be smashed by building destroyers, too; a fortification (b,C,F) is the only construction that lets water through and can't be harmed by destructive beasts.
Sure puts my vertical carving project, a fully smoothed and engraved castle carved of natural stone, to shame. I shall obviously have to try harder. :)
Submitted: 2013-05-26 (View map)
ajr_; according to his "The depths" location, he filled a minecart with magma from the sea and carted it up there.
Submitted: 2011-09-14 (View movie)
He has a pressure tower that pumps the magma up, then pushes it down into the upwelling pipes; it's the white structure at 0:16 and 1:18.
Submitted: 2011-06-11 (View movie)
You're directly tapping a brook there; water connected to a river source behaves funny with regards to pressure. Try capping it at the draw and installing a floodgate, or setting up a pump at the level you want your cisterns to fill to.
Submitted: 2011-05-25 (View map)
I've added a POI for those of us wandering in from Jason Pullara's Wyrmwick D&D campaign.
Submitted: 2011-04-08 (View map)
Love the opulently excessive square of that fortress.
Also impressive is how empty your jails are. What's the population? I can't get above 130 without having at least one or two jailed for unfulfilled work orders, and another one or two jailed for fistfights.
Submitted: 2011-03-10 (View map)
Operation "screw the world" is GO!
Submitted: 2010-11-30 (View map)
Remember that the waterfall at the end of your aqueduct might go to any of the three tiles in front of the opening, not just the one directly ahead. Box it off to make sure it falls only straight down. And of course, don't forget to overengineer your drainage; one flood can ruin your whole day.
Submitted: 2010-04-25 (View map)
Grates will be smashed by building destroyers, too; a fortification (b,C,F) is the only construction that lets water through and can't be harmed by destructive beasts.
Submitted: 2010-03-02 (View map)
Is there any water source on this map? If no, you're definitely going to be needing that graveyard eventually.
Submitted: 2010-02-12 (View map)
Sure puts my vertical carving project, a fully smoothed and engraved castle carved of natural stone, to shame. I shall obviously have to try harder. :)
Submitted: 2010-02-09 (View map)
What's the primary stone layer your fortress is in? Mudstone? I've never seen so many brown layers in a row.
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