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Rain not refilling pool
My dwarves mined into a murky pool before I installed the floodgate, causing my cistern and the pool to level out to 2/7 or 3/7. I'm in a temperate tropical forest with high rainfall, and it has rained several times in the 2 seasons since this happened. My murky pool/Cistern has not refilled at all. Is this a bug? How long should it take for my pool to refill? Will this be a gradual process or an immediate one? -Romeofalling 20:56, 18 August 2010 (UTC)
- Answering myself, the water only came back after a freeze/warm cycle during the winter. --Romeofalling 03:03, 28 September 2010 (UTC)
- Each drop of rain adds just 1/7 of water to the water tile it lands on (assuming that tile is at less than 7/7). And the rain doesn't hit a very big percentage of tiles (you can see how sparse the typical distribution is by watching how the snow accumulates during your first snowstorm of the year). It's quite possible the pool was getting refilled, but not enough to push it above (fully) 3/7 before the ice wall freeze/thaw
featurebugfeature refilled it to 7/7.
- Each drop of rain adds just 1/7 of water to the water tile it lands on (assuming that tile is at less than 7/7). And the rain doesn't hit a very big percentage of tiles (you can see how sparse the typical distribution is by watching how the snow accumulates during your first snowstorm of the year). It's quite possible the pool was getting refilled, but not enough to push it above (fully) 3/7 before the ice wall freeze/thaw
- Also note that pools drained down to 2/7 and 1/7 levels may evaporate completely if it doesn't rain quickly or often enough to fill tne 1/7 tiles to 2/7 faster than they evaporate. 202.156.10.234 06:49, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
Murky pool + rain = no evaporation
See the Water talk page. --Squeaky 22:04, 29 November 2010 (UTC)