Unlimited Power: Dwarven Water Reactor - Dwarf Fortress Engineering Tips 

Urist UngaBungaMacFadden also has mastered mud farming, at novice level.

+1 on this. Fortifications and such would be a neat to know how to do.

@@TheVillainCity until ranged units don't hurl themselves through fortifications, they aren't worth using except as simple grates and shotgun barrels

@View Bot The electrical energy from a hydroelectric dam is generated from the gravitational potential of the water flowing through them. That water did NOT get pumped up to have that potential energy by the hydroelectric system itself. That water got there by the natural water cycle that deposits it into mountain ranges via precipitation where it drains into the river where it will go straight into the hydroelectric dam. So yeah, how do you think hydroelectric dams work irl? But its okay I did my due process and found on the DF wiki: Perpetual motion Due to the relatively low power draw of a screw pump, a self-powering assembly can be made with a water wheel that still leaves plenty of excess power for other uses. This is undeniably an exploit and possibly a bug.

The water exiting from the pump won't go much further left or right.

Oh wow, that is really interesting! Thanks for the tip!

I got the math wrong again! D:

water is powering the water wheels..no water no power.. its called over unity machine not perpetual motion.. i think..

Real machines are sub-unity, you get less power out than you put in, to make perpetual motion you need at least unity, over unity allows you to run in perpetual motion and power other things as well.

It was fine, both with this + the 160 pump stacks! but my computer is pretty beefy!

The algo is currently pushing for long-form videos. My usual content creators are editing longer videos between 20-40 minutes and that's fine, but some of them are just posting 4 hour streams unedited. Lazy. Looking for a normal length lets play of 10-20 min is getting harder too, but I'd rather have longer content than short one minute clips. I value my attention span...anyway, off to work. strike the earth etc...

@@snickle1980 Yes, I agree. I'm not advocating for 1 mn video, this is not tiktok! Just that 40 mn is a long time to devote to a single topic when you have other activities in your life.

@@philippemalacher2649 True...those 40 minute videos are great to string together for sleep though. No part of the buffalo is wasted. 😄

Shout out to those half-hour “tutorials” which are actually Let’s Plays in disguise.

Yeah it will work but it will take ages

@@FurtherReadingTV hard labor always pays out lol, thx!

I literally just watched the video and said "well, i dont really have access to a large body of water safely, wonder if i can use a pond to get at least 4 wheels going :D How did it work for you?

Something like that, yeah! I'll go over it more in the next video.

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Maybe you have only a small bit more power than you need so when the water moves in an odd way it turns off the pumps? Try adding an extra reactor to see if it stabilizes.

well I suppose I didn't have the optimal amount of water, I switched to the single wheel on each side version from the wiki with exactly 63 units of water and it works flawlessly with no evaporation.

The channel below the horizontal part of the T allows each screwpump to be touching each other, which transfers the power between them.

roooooocks!

You can but it'll take a while. Each bucket is 1/7 of depth and its 22 squares to fill iirc, so that's like 154 pours.

I'm bad at math.

Nope, I'm irish!

They were built to power 160, but I got the math wrong and built 2-3 times more reactors than I needed!