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207.89.92.219: /* Fluids under pressure, aka Teleportation */

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Fluids under pressure, aka Teleportation

Zippy at 19:19, 15 August 2023

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Silverwing235 at 23:43, 26 January 2022

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Silverwing235 at 23:43, 26 January 2022

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Silverwing235: -addlement

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Silverwing235: /* Fluid Displacement by Cave-in, aka Pistons */

2019-05-25T15:42:56Z

Fluid Displacement by Cave-in, aka Pistons

Silverwing235 at 15:40, 25 May 2019

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-[[File:flow_demo_anim.gif|thumb|260px|right|Water filling a channeled out hole.]]{{Material properties}}:''The term '''flow''' can be used to refer to several completely different things in Dwarf Fortress: things like [[miasma]] and [[smoke]], and the mechanism by which [[water]] and [[magma]] move. This article describes the latter.''
+[[File:flow_demo_anim.gif|thumb|260px|right|Water filling a channeled out hole.]]{{Material properties}}
 '''Flow''' is a game mechanic used to simulate the motion of '''fluids'''. The two fluids that exist in ''Dwarf Fortress'' currently are '''[[water]]''' and '''[[magma]]'''. You can identify fluids that are flowing by looking for a tile that is blinking between {{Tile|≈|1:0:1}} and {{Tile|~|1:0:1}} tiles. If you have turned on [[Technical_tricks#Tiles|SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS]] you will see the fluid '''depth''' indicator of {{Tile|1|1:0:1}} through {{Tile|7|1:0:1}} instead and will not be able to easily tell if the game considers a tile to be flowing or not. Flow is typically present any time a fluid is in motion, but there are some exceptions which confuse things a bit.

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 Magma, which has no natural pressure, flows according to the rules of basic fluid motion. Water, however, can move by pressure when it falls down on top of full 7/7 water. In addition, pumps create pressure in both water and magma, and water entering the map from a stream or river follows pressure as well.
-Fluids moving under '''[[pressure]]''' do not just move to adjacent tiles, they also trace a path through other full tiles of fluid trying to move to more distant tiles. Fluids moving under [[pressure]] can effectively teleport through other tiles that are already filled with fluid. When teleporting, fluids do not generate '''any''' flow, neither will they push objects around.
+Fluids moving under '''[[pressure]]''' do not just move to adjacent tiles, they also trace a path through other full tiles of fluid trying to move to more distant tiles. Fluids moving under [[pressure]] can effectively teleport through other tiles that are already filled with fluid. When teleporting, fluids do not generate '''any''' flow, nor will they push objects around.
 <diagram>

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-:''The term '''flow''' can be used to refer to several completely different things in Dwarf Fortress: things like [[miasma]] and [[smoke]], and the mechanism by which [[water]] and [[magma]] move. This article describes the latter.''
+[[File:flow_demo_anim.gif|thumb|260px|right|Water filling a channeled out hole.]]{{Material properties}}:''The term '''flow''' can be used to refer to several completely different things in Dwarf Fortress: things like [[miasma]] and [[smoke]], and the mechanism by which [[water]] and [[magma]] move. This article describes the latter.''
 '''Flow''' is a game mechanic used to simulate the motion of '''fluids'''. The two fluids that exist in ''Dwarf Fortress'' currently are '''[[water]]''' and '''[[magma]]'''. You can identify fluids that are flowing by looking for a tile that is blinking between {{Tile|≈|1:0:1}} and {{Tile|~|1:0:1}} tiles. If you have turned on [[Technical_tricks#Tiles|SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS]] you will see the fluid '''depth''' indicator of {{Tile|1|1:0:1}} through {{Tile|7|1:0:1}} instead and will not be able to easily tell if the game considers a tile to be flowing or not. Flow is typically present any time a fluid is in motion, but there are some exceptions which confuse things a bit.
 *Note: In the current release, flow does not seem to appear in magma. Magma follows the same rules of fluid motion and flow, it simply doesn't have flow in the sense that would allow it to power a water (''or magma, in the case'') wheel.

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 :''The term '''flow''' can be used to refer to several completely different things in Dwarf Fortress: things like [[miasma]] and [[smoke]], and the mechanism by which [[water]] and [[magma]] move. This article describes the latter.''

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 {{Material properties}}
 '''Flow''' is a game mechanic used to simulate the motion of '''fluids'''. The two fluids that exist in ''Dwarf Fortress'' currently are '''[[water]]''' and '''[[magma]]'''. You can identify fluids that are flowing by looking for a tile that is blinking between {{Tile|≈|1:0:1}} and {{Tile|~|1:0:1}} tiles. If you have turned on [[Technical_tricks#Tiles|SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS]] you will see the fluid '''depth''' indicator of {{Tile|1|1:0:1}} through {{Tile|7|1:0:1}} instead and will not be able to easily tell if the game considers a tile to be flowing or not. Flow is typically present any time a fluid is in motion, but there are some exceptions which confuse things a bit.
-*Note: In the current release, flow does not seem to appear in magma. Magma follows the same rules of fluid motion and flow, it simply doesn't have flow in the sense that would allow it to power a water(''or magma, in the case'') wheel.
+*Note: In the current release, flow does not seem to appear in magma. Magma follows the same rules of fluid motion and flow, it simply doesn't have flow in the sense that would allow it to power a water (''or magma, in the case'') wheel.
 ==Basic Fluid Motion==

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   ▒▒▒▒▒              ▒▒▒▒▒              ▒▒▒▒▒
 </diagram>
-When done in an u-bend example the pushing above original fluid level can be easily appreciated, although it breaks the laws of regular fluid physics:
+When done in a u-bend example, the pushing above original fluid level can be easily appreciated, although it breaks the laws of regular fluid physics:
 <diagram>
    Start               Step 1               Step 2
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   ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒              ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒              ▒▒▒▒▒▒▒
 </diagram>
-This is the basic principle that the '''[[magma piston]]''' exploit, if you want to anticipate a future fix or simply want to simulate regular physics fluid behaviour, you can do something like this:
+This is the basic principle that the '''[[magma piston]]''' exploits, if you want to anticipate a future fix or simply want to simulate regular physics fluid behaviour, you can do something like this:
 <diagram>
   z-level   Start                  Step 1                 Step 2

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-:''The term '''flow''' can be used to refer to several completely different things in Dwarf Fortress: things like [[miasma]] and [[smoke]], and the mechanism by which [[water]] and [[magma]] move. This article describes the latter.''
+:''The term '''flow''' can be used to refer to several completely different things in ''Dwarf Fortress'': things like [[miasma]] and [[smoke]], and the mechanism by which [[water]] and [[magma]] move. This article describes the latter.''
 {{Material properties}}
 '''Flow''' is a game mechanic used to simulate the motion of '''fluids'''. The two fluids that exist in Dwarf Fortress currently are '''[[water]]''' and '''[[magma]]'''. You can identify fluids that are flowing by looking for a tile that is blinking between {{Tile|≈|1:0:1}} and {{Tile|~|1:0:1}} tiles. If you have turned on [[Technical_tricks#Tiles|SHOW_FLOW_AMOUNTS]] you will see the fluid '''depth''' indicator of {{Tile|1|1:0:1}} through {{Tile|7|1:0:1}} instead and will not be able to easily tell if the game considers a tile to be flowing or not. Flow is typically present any time a fluid is in motion, but there are some exceptions which confuse things a bit.
-*Note: In the current release flow does not seem to appear in magma. Magma follows the same rules of fluid motion and flow, it simply doesn't have flow in the sense that would allow it to power a water wheel.
+*Note: In the current release, flow does not seem to appear in magma. Magma follows the same rules of fluid motion and flow, it simply doesn't have flow in the sense that would allow it to power a water wheel.
 ==Basic Fluid Motion==
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 Fluids move mostly as one might expect: they will fall straight down if they can, or else they will spread out to the sides. Fluids can flow diagonally on the same z-level, but will never move sideways and down at the same time. Under basic fluid motion, fluid never moves back up, but it can appear to do so if pressure is involved.
-Here is a quick example of how fluids can move to adjacent tiles. Also as water moves to an adjacent tile flow is generated in both tiles. This flow will remain for a short time before reverting to being non-flowing water. Falling water does ''not'' generate flow, so only the 3rd example will result in flow (in both tiles).
+Here is a quick example of how fluids can move to adjacent tiles. Also, as water moves to an adjacent tile, flow is generated in both tiles. This flow will remain for a short time before reverting to being non-flowing water. Falling water does ''not'' generate flow, so only the 3rd example will result in flow (in both tiles).
                          '''Before (side view)'''