Pierce- & Blunt-Weapons are great against armor, while Cutting-Weapons can't really cut harder materials than themselves. My fortress has a hallway going out on the otherside of a hill and all of my dwarves kept bringing out rock the longway instead of taking the stairs.then I threw in a ramp and their travel time was cut back 1/40th the distance because apparently dwarves hate stairs.I think he is just making things up. That particular pond probably has enough water for 1 or 2 more floods, hopefully they'll refill with water from rain or snow melt, otherwise I'm going to be going through all of my ponds pretty quickly (although I'll probably have the river harnessed by then, even though it's 40 tiles away).Īlso, new hint: dwarves don't like carrying things up stairs, once you've built that first stairway down (.and up), make sure you dig out a ramp or two nearby, so they can carry things up more efficiently.

Once the flood gate is closed, designate some farm plots (you can designate them, even when there's still water on there), and wait for your lazy-ass dwarves to get over there to build them. Pull the lever again pretty quickly, don't try to fill the whole room.individual ponds don't really have that much water. Connect the lever to the floodgate (.this part took longest for me, since my mechanic was on a month-long break), and pull the lever. Now, build an alcove somewhere outside the space you plan to flood for a lever. Go back to ground level and build a channel out from the pond to your one tile hallway (be sure to stop short of the floodgate below you). Also, block your hallway with doors make sure you use and make them tightly closed, just in case. Make sure it's actually set up before you continue. Make sure you don't mine right into the pond though, just within 2 tiles or so (there are little ~s that flash dark blue in the designation tool that tell you where you'll breakthrough and flood the place).Īt the end of the room connected to your farming room build a floodgate (.preferably making sure your dwarf is on the correct side to survive).

Now, build a small hallway 1 tile wide towards the pond.

Make sure you build a hallway to the room, so it can be blocked off by doors. Just work towards your pond at some point so that you can build a farming room (6x8 should do fine). UltimaGecko's suggestions for quick fortress irrigation:įind a pond, any will do.although it might be best to use to check and make sure the pressure is 6/7 or 7/7 (remember that you can only check the pressure on the level below ground, ground level will only give you 'Open Space').ĭig down near the pond (say 5+ tiles away) and build your fort away, whatever you want. Maybe we'll need some platinum eing as that's the only metal I've got lying around :P. I figure there's going to be a lot of drowned dwarves in a minute, here (which will be unfortunate, because they just dug out a lovely dining room). I'm about to attempt to get some irrigation in my cave.which seems decidely difficult without a cave river (especially since the digging in Z-axis is a bit hit-or-miss at the moment, because apparently channels build one Z level down and digging up may be difficult and all sorts of other crap. So far all I've encountered - besides an extremely vicious carp, has been a mountain goat and a lot of turtles (some fished, some not). I was going for 'Realm of the Eternal Earths' instead I got Orb of the Everseeing or something like that, which is cool, I guess.īug: on the stone status screen it says Space: Change status and Space: Done (where Space: Change Status should really be Enter). I tried to pick a name, but even Title and Name (or whatever two options there were), both of which sounded like the realm name.didn't actually name my realm.

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