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User:Immibis/Dam

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  1. Build the below design over a river, stream or brook to make the water stop flowing.
  2. Apply power to the pumps. This will lag.
  3. Build a wall or floodgates in the dry part of the river, to dam it permanently.
  4. Stop powering the pumps. It will now stop lagging and your river is dammed.
  5. Deconstruct the pumps and associated walls

Top view:

╔═O
║_<%_
║_<%_
║_<%_
║_<%_
╚═O

where <% is a pump pointing left, and _ is a channel

Side view:

 O <% O
≈≈≈≈≈~#.....

where ≈ is water, O is a wall, <% is a pump pointing left, and . is a dry riverbed The # shows where you will build the wall while the pumps are running and the river is dry.