![]() My motto: one dwarf to power your entire fort. There are a couple ways you can create mud: Flooding. No matter how long the raceway becomes, the water from one dwarf pumping is enough to power all the waterwheels. Normally to use the mud, you need to either drain the water (or wait for it to evaporate) down to 1/7. If you expanded the design long enough, you might consider making the raceway snake back and forth in a S path, which would shorten but widen its footprint. If you build this device at the bottom of your fortress where you found the very deep water you could connect it to a pump stack and use it to pump water up to the surface (or wherever). So a 24 waterwheel design will provide 2087 net power, enough for a 200 high pumpstack with 87 extra power for axles and gears to connect it to your pumpstack. If you lengthen the design by a pair of waterwheels, you add the additional two waterwheels, a gear assembly, and a two tile axle, resulting in a net 173 additional power per pair of waterwheels (180-5-2). From one dwarf! 1000 (10 water wheels X 100 power per) In the example above, with one dwarf manually cranking the pump, and with 10 water wheels (5 on outgoing raceway, 5 on returning raceway), we see a power output of 837. X.WGWWGWWGWWGWWGW.X Z+1: waterwheel/powertrain level X.X seal off afterward since it will be flooded XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Z-1: water reservoir level XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX.X the stairs required to run. X.^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^.X Dwarf access to the pump via An item stack acts as a single item for the purposes of a dwarf hauling it from one place to another, which saves time since the dwarf wont have to make a. ![]() XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Z+0: pump/raceway level X.X.GAAGAAGAAGAAG.X It can be sealed off afterward. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX Z+1: waterwheel/powertrain level If you don't overfill with water, when your dwarf stops pumping all water should return to the reservoir level, leaving the raceway level dry. ![]() The reservoir level is designed to be a little bigger than the size of the raceway so as to provide sufficient water for the water wheels and to improve pumping efficiency. The bottom reservoir level is just a sealed chamber that stores water. The middle level has the pump and a raceway where the water flows under half the waterwheels, makes a U turn, flows under the rest of the waterwheels, and then drops through a channeled hole to the bottom (water reservoir) level. The top level is the waterwheel/powertrain level, where the waterwheels, gear assemblies and axle for power transmission are built. The advantage is that it requires fewer mechanisms since you don't need to build or connect a lever to shut down power. The disadvantage is it requires one dwarf pump operator to power it, and he will occasionally need a break so it is not ideal for assured continuous power. This design is similar to a large scale dwarven nuclear reactor, but with an advantage and disadvantage compared to a reactor. ![]()
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