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40d Talk:Floodgate
... but only stone and metal will hold back magma.
Is this true? In the last version only steel was strong enough to contain magma. --Mizipzor 15:29, 1 November 2007 (EDT)
- Well, my dolomite floodgates were enough to hold magma. So stone floodgates are capable of holding magma. Dunnoe about wooden ones though. Noctis 15:59, 1 November 2007 (EDT)
- Not true. I used stone floodgates all the time with magma in the last version. --RedKing 00:52, 2 November 2007 (EDT)
- Perhaps the confusion comes from the fact that you needed steel to bridge over magma --Moller 02:11, 2 November 2007 (EDT)
- Alright, the dolomite floodgates that I've mentioned earlier seem to have disappeared, presumably melted away. Thus I'm led to belive that only steel(or better) floodgates are capable of holding magma now. Noctis 09:29, 3 November 2007 (EDT)
- From what I've seen stone floodgates are, at the moment, one use like the steel ones listed in the article...but for different reasons. A closed stone floodgate will hold back magma indefinitely (probably for the same reason that the normal stone walls hold magma as they do), but once you link and open it the magma enters the same tile and turns any stone into it's molten counterpart. This means both your stone floodgate and stone mechanism are turned to slag and eventually lost to the magma forever. I would bet that the steel floodgates are still there, but forever locked in their open state since your mechanism just got turned to goo and you can no longer select the flood gate from the lever's link menu[Verify]. Perhaps Bauxite might be able to survive the magma [Verify], but I need to find some first in order to test that theory.v0.27.169.33b --TheUbie 04:28, 19 November 2007 (EST)
Interesting note, floodgates seem to take approximately 100 steps to open after activation, from my experimentation. Maybe this could be used in the article somehow? NullAshton 23:51, 1 January 2008 (EST)
opening and closing
do I have to use a lever to open and close a floodgate? Early on - I have a room next to a river - I want to put a floodgate in the corridor and "bucket fill" a "pond" from the outside.
will this plan work or do I need a lever?GarrieIrons 01:55, 5 January 2008 (EST)
- You need some kind of machine to trigger it, yes. Pressure plates work as well. --Edward 06:20, 5 January 2008 (EST)