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WRT plumbing, the setup I like to use works something like this.

WRT plumbing, the setup I like to use works something like this.

Depending on the location of your watersource (mine tends to be a UG River or an overground river, but in any case), you will likely need to pump water up/down to truly effectively make use of it. In my forts, I tend to have an active overground presence, I keep my farms, barracks, dining hall, crafts, and butchery/leather chain almost always above ground (though not necessarily outside. I find that this setup (with workshops directly beneath it, and furnaces/metalcrafting going on directly below that (usually in range of a magma pipe, sometimes some pumping needs to be done)) leads to a nice "clustering" of resources that minimizes need for multiple stockpiles, increases efficiency, etc (For those interested, I keep the bedrooms on the third floor up from the bottom).

Depending on the location of your watersource (mine tends to be a UG River or an overground river, but in any case), you will likely need to pump water up/down to truly effectively make use of it. In my forts, I tend to have an active overground presence, I keep my farms, barracks, dining hall, crafts, and butchery/leather chain almost always above ground (though not necessarily outside. I find that this setup (with workshops directly beneath it, and furnaces/metalcrafting going on directly below that (usually in range of a magma pipe, sometimes some pumping needs to be done)) leads to a nice "clustering" of resources that minimizes need for multiple stockpiles, increases efficiency, etc (For those interested, I keep the bedrooms on the third floor up from the bottom).

One simple design is to simply create a shaft with pumps filling a series of stacked boxes. This method is simple, but somewhat featureless. We can get the water from A to B, but what about draining? What about controlled filling, eg, filling only certain parts of the shaft, and not the whole thing? For this, we need to have a more complicated design. Principally we need to think about two things:

One simple design is to simply create a shaft with pumps filling a series of stacked boxes. This method is simple, but somewhat featureless. We can get the water from A to B, but what about draining? What about controlled filling, eg, filling only certain parts of the shaft, and not the whole thing? For this, we need to have a more complicated design. Principally we need to think about two things:

Let's assume we're drawing from an underground river, since pumping is almost certainly a necessity in this case. We'll assume an ideal case, where we can easily build perpendicularly to the river, in the event you can't, it's not difficult to adjust these plans, even if it is a little more difficult to construct the appropriate filters.

Let's assume we're drawing from an underground river, since pumping is almost certainly a necessity in this case. We'll assume an ideal case, where we can easily build perpendicularly to the river, in the event you can't, it's not difficult to adjust these plans, even if it is a little more difficult to construct the appropriate filters.

We're looking to extend some useful features into the cistern design. The first obvious improvement is to add a floodgate to bypass filling the main cistern entirely.

We're looking to extend some useful features into the cistern design. The first obvious improvement is to add a floodgate to bypass filling the main cistern entirely.

This system has a total capacity of 40 squares, or 280u of water. We can also extend this system to not need the access door at the top, so that instead we leave the access door only on one level, or one several levels as you prefer. Since we have this nice access, we might want to add a lever room too this design, we also need to add a back-fill cistern for the bottom level or two. We also want to calculate the power requirements of the cistern. Let's take these one at a time.

This system has a total capacity of 40 squares, or 280u of water. We can also extend this system to not need the access door at the top, so that instead we leave the access door only on one level, or one several levels as you prefer. Since we have this nice access, we might want to add a lever room too this design, we also need to add a back-fill cistern for the bottom level or two. We also want to calculate the power requirements of the cistern. Let's take these one at a time.

Well, we have 1 gear + 1 axel + 1 pump for a total of 16 power per cistern. This is a very simple cistern, the rate of fill works out to 1 pump, which is relatively slow. We rely on the size of the cistern to help prevent overuse, Later we may explore multi-pump cisterns, but for now, a 16u power requirement is a nice feature. Assuming we build a 30 z-level water tower, that works out to only 480u of power, which, with the 1424u generating power system listed above, leaves us with 944u of power left over. If we build this structure out of magma safe materials, it is also suitable as a magma pump.

Well, we have 1 gear + 1 axel + 1 pump for a total of 16 power per cistern. This is a very simple cistern, the rate of fill works out to 1 pump, which is relatively slow. We rely on the size of the cistern to help prevent overuse, Later we may explore multi-pump cisterns, but for now, a 16u power requirement is a nice feature. Assuming we build a 30 z-level water tower, that works out to only 480u of power, which, with the 1424u generating power system listed above, leaves us with 944u of power left over. If we build this structure out of magma safe materials, it is also suitable as a magma pump.

The benefit of internal controls is the fact that they're simple to remember, if not always convenient in the event of an emergency.  

The benefit of internal controls is the fact that they're simple to remember, if not always convenient in the event of an emergency.  

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