Dwarf Fortress Video Tutorial part 26 - Floodgates, Levers and Bridges.

[TheShadowOfX01]

why did you waste all of the rock you could've used stockpiled for rock and saved all of it for later

[weirdguy0]

What is the chance of starting out on a place that has a underground river, chasm and magma? Which you cant see from the generated map?

[InfernoWolf11]

I'll always hate your tileset haha

[captnduck]

Actually quite a long time. I cheated for this fort and edited the .ini file so magma pipes and underground rivers show up on the map, then i looked around a lot for a perfect spot that also had trees and sand.

[feki00]

Damnit you need bauxite floodgate, i did with regular rock now there is just bauxite mechanism all over the place from the floodgate.

Things from build menu will not melt only if it is not submerged.

Also magma will not rise out of its z-level like water, even it is channeled down from above.

[redoutlander]

Why doesn't he use wall grates instead of fortifications?

[captnduck]

because fortifications are easier to make since there carved out of rock

[skeloman]

So, if I have this correctly;

I could tap into my pipe, and using the fortification floodgate combo, then have it safely drain into a chamber that would go straight up, with no floors? And this would cause the magma to climb all the way to the top z level of the pipe?

[truean]

Just curious, is anyone else having problems with the high quality version? I can't seem to get it to load past the first few seconds. By the way, you are great Capt Duck. :)

[captnduck]

Seems fine now. Whenever anyone gets problems, its probably youtube acting up a little. Try waiting or getting the vids from the internetarchive, there is a link on my channel page.

[nupferl]

I'm having problems too! Only with this one, all the others seem fine...

[Burtybeetle]

Behind each 10 minute video is _hours_ of work.

Thankyou so much captnduck, these videos are awesome.

[captnduck]

Oh this is so true. Even if recording works normally i still have to write the subs. Also at this stageof the tutorials, there is a lot of DF playing time between each update. All those pumps and giant rooms take a lot of time to make.

[pollo2019]

Thank you once more for your nice tutorial ^_^

[Kivalt]

Holy crap, it must have taken ages to dig those rooms.

[darksaiyan2006]

You know, you can link a floodgate (or two) to a pressure plate, but not in the conventional way. Pressure plates are also activated by water or magma going over it. If the level of the fluid is high enough, it will activate the plate. You can do some ingenious stuff that way (automated flooding devices come to mind).

[reDustt]

Did you disable cave-ins? It seems like you have some super huge rooms dug out.

[darksaiyan2006]

Cave-ins only happen if you really want to in the current version, by means of mining absolutely every support (having floating islands). Also, you can disable it in the init.txt file. Search for it in the installation folder.

[obvlexi]

I started a map with a magma pipe right on the surface, and when I went to start digging the fortress next to it, imps came out and killed everyone right away!

[captnduck]

Yeah this happenend to me to once.. When this happens wall it off ASAP, and dig into stone nearby to, so the masons wont have to run as far to get stone.

[evilgibson]

I disapprove this video. Safety precautions of lava dwelling creatures directly reduces the chances of spontaneous dwarf combustion. And by spontaneous I mean on purpose. and by combustion I mean running around setting everything on fire.

[ShaneOMac694]

you tell em' captduck

also, AWSOME VIDEO!

i've been waiting for this one haha

[captnduck]

Idiot, i blocked you. Dont start with this nonsense here.