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40d:Irrigation
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Dwarf Fortress uses realistic water dynamics, including measures of depth. A depth of 7 is full, depths of 1 will evaporate, leaving the stone wet and thus suitable for farming. Your goal in irrigation is to get a section of ground to be 1's.
Oldschool Style
- Dig from the farm plot to any source of water, but keep a single tile of wall between the newbuilt channel and the water. Also, dig a passage from the plot towards lower ground that'll serve as the water drain.
- Build a door or floodgate, and three mechanisms.
- Place the door in the channel. The idea is that it'll block the water from coming through when closed.
- Build a lever and link it to the door.
- Pull the lever so the door opens. Send a miner to dig that last wall keeping the water from rushing in.
- Ideally, here the miner will run like hell. The water is actually fairly slow.
- Use the lever to close the channel once you feel you've got enough water to spread over the area.
- Wait for water to drain out to at least 1/7 per tile.
- Make farm.
- Profit!