Dwarf Fortress - Wells (Complete Guide / Tutorial)

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@itsa_possum Жыл бұрын

Ahh, yes. Wells. Or what I built in my first fort attempting to supply pristine fresh water to my citizens: High pressure dorf drowning apparatus

@MultiJuan182 Жыл бұрын

Epic

@AuII-c12 Жыл бұрын

It just happened to me :(

@itsa_possum Жыл бұрын

@@AuII-c12It is a rite of passage

@matveisaidfernandezmorales3130 6 ай бұрын

Was it a Legendary Miner?

@kevingriffith6011 Жыл бұрын

Maybe you said it in the video and I missed it, but two very important things to note about wells: First: The water doesn't have to be immediately under the well, in fact you can set your well several Z-levels above your water source and extract water without issue. Second: Climbing and flying creatures underneath your well can climb up through it and enter your base, so for the security of your base it's important that you use a water source you know is secure, or one that can be sealed off in case of emergency.

@underdoug Жыл бұрын

You can also stack them, they don't impede each other.

@arthurbarros5189 Жыл бұрын

Once I put a well way above the cavern waters. It was so simple to set up. But so many creatures come in climbing or flying through that I had to make a permanent barracks in the neighboring room. . Maybe that is why Dwarven culture got so fond of alcohol. It's safer. In a way, alcohol is life.

@iniudan Жыл бұрын

@@arthurbarros5189 Just make sure the upper part of the well shaft lining is smooth stone or block, that way only legendary skill climber can get to the top. Making the bottom of the shaft wider for 2 z level also help, as unless it changed, nothing can climb an overhang. So basically the only creature that can get up your well will be swimmer, who can jump 3+ z level and are legendary climber, swimmer who can jump the whole shaft, or flyer. (don't put well in an area that regularly see dangerous flying creature, but that highly dependant on biome)

@arthurbarros5189 Жыл бұрын

@@iniudan I am somewhat sure giant Cave spiders are legendary climbers. Besides, some creatures fly. . I had goblins outside, so no access on my brook. No aquifer. Well to the caverns was a way to save someone on the hospital. It worked. I should have dug a secure reservoir, filled it with buckets from the cave well, and then walled it off. It just had not occured to me at the time.

@godsdonttalk597 Жыл бұрын

Another way to make a cistern/pump well is to provide a drop-off point into the caverns. That way you have an infinite flow, and no pumps are needed.

@ДмитрийКрутько-й1ч Жыл бұрын

It would also be good to mention a simple "fortification/grate/floodgate setup to just channel the river into the reservoir" in Blind's unic safety-insurance style.

@kevingriffith6011 Жыл бұрын

I see you didn't cover the Cavern Well. AKA: The Forgotten Beast Backdoor.

@nunyabusiness2382 Жыл бұрын

Ah, the source of many player's woes.

@Gillerz100 5 ай бұрын

cover...? cover how? with a hatch?

@kevingriffith6011 5 ай бұрын

@@Gillerz100 I find it's generally best to cover your water source from the outside. It's difficult to explain in a comment section, but using things like floodgates to tap into a water source so that the source of the well isn't permanently open to the caverns. That or just filling the well area with a ton of cage traps to catch any stray critters that happen to stagger through, as long as they're not immune.

@kindlingking 2 ай бұрын

@@kevingriffith6011 yeah, that's exactly what I've started doing after the 10th crocodile attack. I also did the same for my fishery and suddenly cave death rates have plummeted.

@Mirality Жыл бұрын

Another variation is to dig out a reservoir, fill it from a surface river, and put your well on the reservoir or an offshoot. Just be careful of pressure so that you don't flood up through the well. But even if the surface freezes, your reservoir will be safe. Also, pumps aren't the only way to clean water. For some peculiar reason, if you fill a reservoir with salt (or murky) water, seal it off, then drop a single bucket of clean water from above, it cleans the rest of the water.

@arthurbarros5189 Жыл бұрын

I don't think it is how that works. I thought the tiles stores if there was ever saltwater or still water. Maybe this changed? I am going to test it to be sure.

@drag0fek0 8 ай бұрын

wish i saw your comment an hour ago. currently putting efforts into diverting the waterflow and unflooding my temple and hospital

@TheYuxiaodi 10 ай бұрын

the giggle when you think about flooding the fortress.... you are pure evil and I approve of it wholeheartedly

@PEST1776 3 ай бұрын

Very helpful, ty. Just started playing & super addicted hahahha. "Bucket full" brought me here

@astralfurry8024 Жыл бұрын

Well, well, well. Such a deep subject!

@golira174 Жыл бұрын

my first well ended up flooding the lower half of my fortress!

@FryingMike Жыл бұрын

Love bulding mine right above the aquifer, 2 floors deep and just hallow out 3x3 and then the center on the next floor, gives a big well with ramp access out

@robertbcardoza Жыл бұрын

Loving this tutorial series. Keep them coming Blind. Guide up through the basics, all the way to constructing an upside down glass pyramid that floods the surface in lava!

@arleyantes9321 Жыл бұрын

Hi! I love your videos. I'm having so much fun with the game now during my PTO. Can you make a detailed guide on how to set up logistics in Dwarf Fortress? Advanced tips to make effective stockpiles, minecart routes, wheelbarrows, work burrows, and so on. Also, I'd appreciate a guide to farming in the caverns.

@rDunfee Жыл бұрын

There is still a bit of a bug where if you dig diagonally and have water flow through it the pressure normalizes and does not raise above the Z level you made the diagonal on. I use this along with a long staircase and long tunnel to fill up a big well from a river deep in my fortress, usually with a well directly in my hospital and one made out of the best materials possible in my dining room

@appw_ Жыл бұрын

I use this trick in pretty much all of my forts. You could think of it like the dwarves making a little stone regulator out of the diagonal walls, and suddenly it's not a bug.

@elijahspens9987 Жыл бұрын

The DF wiki page for "Pressure" covers this mechanic extensively, as well as other advanced setups!

@renba7059 3 ай бұрын

For the last well example, what is the benefit to using a pump vs just digging a tunnel for the water to travel and channeling form the top?

@Fuzzatron3000 Жыл бұрын

What's the reason to use pumps rather than using a river to flood a downstairs area and just have a flood gate and lever?

@kosnk 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for the tutorials!

@kenshisaan2207 Жыл бұрын

thanks for all video you made

@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын

Glad you like them!

@kingsuperbus 10 ай бұрын

this was a life saver, thank you

@raphaelnunes5925 Жыл бұрын

You didn't seem to cover muddy vs clean water. If you have only one layer dug out of an aquifer and or you have any surrounding aquifer stones, you get muddy water. To get clean water out of an aquifer, you need to dig at least two 9x9 channels out of two layers of aquifer stones and place the well on an empty space above and on the middle of that.

@JordanCatchC Жыл бұрын

What are aquifer stones? and how do you dig a channel on dwarf built walls?

@irenebloodrose3886 3 ай бұрын

@@JordanCatchC a bit late but if you're looking for the answer still, aquifer stones are the stones that generate water.

@null4369 Жыл бұрын

Awesome video!

@0DeadSoul0 Жыл бұрын

Great video as always

@aidansweeney7445 4 ай бұрын

THANK YOU

@truefreak Жыл бұрын

Well that was another refreshing tutorial.

@FinalJuice 8 ай бұрын

did you say that using pumps is the only way to get fresh water if youre around salt water? i might be misunderstanding but does this mean that salt water turns to drinkable water when you pump them?

@evilgingerminiatures5820 Жыл бұрын

very useful thank you

@Kenny-mt4ko 9 ай бұрын

My understanding was that awuifers in salt water areas were slso salt water, has that been changed?

@johnsmith-rd9rr 8 ай бұрын

Great Video! But, how do you deal with pressure? Is there a configuration to keep the well from over-flowing into your fortress?

@BlindiRL 8 ай бұрын

If they go through a diagonal opening it removes all water pressure. Like a bishop in chess.

@johnsmith-rd9rr 8 ай бұрын

Hrm I tried that and still got over flow. A single diagonal opening under the well?

@matveisaidfernandezmorales3130 6 ай бұрын

It was super satisfiyng jajaa. nice vid.

@LIMECAINE 9 ай бұрын

I was sort of hoping that making them out of magma safe materials would let you transport lava in magma safe buckets. Maybe I’ve played too much Minecraft

@Paulsinke Жыл бұрын

thanks

@GatorBodine1 Жыл бұрын

I usually stick with just digging a hole to a cavern for my well. The one time I tried to create a well, water overfilled, shot out of the well, and flooded half of my base.

@kuddel928 Жыл бұрын

When you designated the water source zone for your first well, you made it a little bigger than just the well itself (and removed the parts that overlapped with the river). Do zones always need space for dwarfs to stand in? Or why else isn't just the single tile with the well designated as a water source zone? Cheers! I always love watching your tutorials :)

@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын

I don't think so but they leave the buckets in the zone if dropped so you might get a well full of buckets.

@MorionDeath Жыл бұрын

I have a question! I once dug through an aquifer and made it so that the water from the aquifer channeled downwards to my fortress into a cistern to place a well underground but once the cistern was full water would not stop there and my whole fortress flooded. How do I avoid this?

@EX58UD Жыл бұрын

Setup flood gates before the cistern so it will stop the water.

@chriswillis713 10 ай бұрын

I just dug a channel from the river to the reservoir, added two levers and a grate, took put the last block, let the channel fill.

@oClucker 7 ай бұрын

Thanks pal

@ghostuagov Жыл бұрын

Sadly no info provided on wells with cavern water sources and possibility of infection from those.

@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын

Caverns are built the same as surface wells and infection is a minimal risk but I digress.

@Jertopotamus Жыл бұрын

Don't mind me WELL WISHING! hahaaa Sorry

@nickolaslima6980 2 ай бұрын

got it

@joegonzalez6241 Жыл бұрын

i suggest building a wall. i know i only started playing this game last night. 1 build mine 2 build stockpile 3 some buildings 4 walls and defenses

@TheGloriousLobsterEmperor 9 ай бұрын

This is just one of those things that I cannot wrap my head around. I don't get it, I don't get how to bring my water down below and I don't get how any of the well stuff works. Might be the most complicated part of this game yet.

@alexistoran2181 Жыл бұрын

Aren't ocean aquifers also salty? I thought I read that on the wiki.

@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын

Not to my knowledge.

@MOISECRIMI Жыл бұрын

👌

@sharpsheep4148 Жыл бұрын

Can you fill a pond from a well?

@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын

Yep just set it as a water source.

@highadmiralbittenfield9689 Жыл бұрын

Now how do i stop my dwarves from falling down them and drowning? I made a cool water feature that mists the stairs on every z level of my fort amd exits through a channel I made, but my dwarves keep falling down wells I built that use the channel.

@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын

Are they trying to path into the wells? Is the water knocking them in? If have to see it to figure it out.

@highadmiralbittenfield9689 Жыл бұрын

@@BlindiRL I have most of the wells in the middle of a 3 wide hallway that branches off to bedrooms on both sides (so in the middle of 3x3 squares), and one in the corner by the tavern entrance. None of it is near the mist area. Perplexing.

@esededr Жыл бұрын

@@highadmiralbittenfield9689have you tried setting the well as a low priority traffic area?

@highadmiralbittenfield9689 Жыл бұрын

@@esededr no, I figured they should path around it normally anyway

@Lumen_Obscurum Жыл бұрын

Oh, did they fix the whole "Salt water gets turned fresh by going up stairs" thing? That was the easiest way to get fresh water on an ocean embark imo, then build a well over the fresh water.

@MasterChiefe Жыл бұрын

Hi Blind! great video! I would appreciate your help, I recently decided to start the Honey Industry for making mead, but found there is no way to do stockpile just for jugs, my other stone tools are getting in the way and royal jelly is not being used for cooking, Is there a better way to manage the honey industry? Do you know if Dev team has any plans to review the honey industry? appreciate any info about it.

@BlindiRL Жыл бұрын

My way of dealing with this is making jugs out of metal and limiting material in the stockpile.

@MasterChiefe Жыл бұрын

@@BlindiRL Will give it a try! thanks

@PZMaTTy 7 ай бұрын

It's funny that all my life playing this game I got water by making tunnels and using Floodgates, I'm going to misuse the pumps in every way possible XD

@АннаИзвекова-г4ц 8 ай бұрын

Well... I guess my dwarfs will die from thirst in winter... Edit: never miiiiind, I figured out that I have a lot of plants to do alcohol

@АннаИзвекова-г4ц 8 ай бұрын

It wasn't an intentional pun...

@csabawars 11 ай бұрын

Last day i try to make a underwater well. By make the river flow ubderground. Somehow i manage to make a dwarf deathtrap. Cuz they step into the shalow water but the curent drag them underwater. I lost over 20 dwarf there before i realise what happened! (I walled of fhe water source and put a wall next to the floodgate. But acidentaly i removed the uper layer where the wall is and the water just jet over there. I decide to try to make it into a actual floodtrap for invaders. And simply order my dwarf to never trafic there.