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v0.31:Waterfall
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A waterfall is any point on a Template:L where water descends z-levels.
Benefits of waterfalls
Waterfalls generate Template:L, which gives dwarves happy thoughts. Consider building Template:Ls under your waterfall and building a Template:L or Template:L behind the waterfall. This will result in a nice, constant happiness boost for your dwarves.
Drawbacks of waterfalls
Waterfalls will hamper your Template:L.
Waterfalls also have Template:L Template:L on Template:L. Depending on what you are Template:L, this may actually count as a benefit.
Locating a waterfall
While the site finder does not include waterfalls, the Template:L screen can still be used with fair accuracy to locate waterfalls for your fortress. Press Tab until you reach the relative height and cliff indicator screens, and follow rivers. Waterfalls are often located where two rivers intersect and the smaller river empties into the larger one. Some particularly tangled segments of rivers can result in maps with two or more waterfalls. Here, an example of a stream flowing into a minor river is shown.
In most Template:Ls the relative height of rivers will be the same. This is generally the darkest color, to indicate the lowest point. However, there are places where the relative heights along rivers will change. This is a good hint as to the presence of a waterfall. Generally, the greater the difference in color, the more impressive the waterfall will be. This is of course only a relative measure: the same difference in color implies wildly greater levels of scenic grandeur in mountains than it does in flatlands.
The cliff indicator tool can be used to further confirm the presence of waterfalls, and to fine tune your embark area. In this example, the embark area straddles the tiles labeled as having cliffs with a height of four. The "flat" tiles labeled as zero are the southern extension of the stream: for the purposes of the site finder, all segments of the stream are on the same height. The exact location of the waterfall will be in the zero sandwiched between the fours. You can use this knowledge to fine-tune your embark area to your favorite size. In this case, a 3x3 map could be centered on the bottom zero tile, and a fortress built around the majestic centerpiece.
Here is the end result of the example waterfall search: seven dwarves milling around in the dirt, and the stream Bristleditches the Messianic Vomit falling five z-levels as it spills into a wide pool and joins with the minor river Skeweredseer.
