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You did not need to dynamite a large hole. Water ponds irrigate down the hill but do not irrigate up the hill so digging a large hole does not really help. You can try this in developer mode. I also would not advise to pause the water dumps. The full hole takes about 4 water per day, same as 2 beavers. The empty 3x3x1 hole takes about 50 water to fill. This map has a lot of water so it is not a big deal. On a map with little water you will use up all your water refilling the hole every time. 3x3x1 hole irrigates in a radius or 14 tiles, by the way. I would move my colony to the edge of the map since there is much more land you can use. Good luck.

Sorry to say this, but your are repeating the same mistakes you made in the first part of this play. You are building over water which is resource intensive. You do not need to unlock dynamite to have irrigation, you can build a small 3x3 pond from 16 levies, and use stairs and fluid dump to have your irrigation. If you build this at the top of the hill it will irrigate all the land below. You should do this for wood growing as well as food growing. Also you can relocate your district center any place on the map by building a new one. It does not cost any resources. So you can move your colony closer to the edge of the map, say where metal is or when more land is available. It is much simpler to block off a crater and let it dry than build up platforms over water. As far as hard mode goes, this map is not that hard - there is a lot of water, it is just mixed with bad water. Once you figure out how to clean the water up, you can do whatever you like. Really hard maps are small maps with just few water sources, like diorama. No place to get water from so first bad tide will kill your colony if you are not prepared.

You need to do the same thing with water dump just use levies to make a pond. If you make a pond on the hill it will irrigate all land below. You need to plant more blueberries to have constant supply for breeding pods. Very important at this moment. Also make sure water pump is running as hydroponic things take a lot of water. 3x3 pond takes as much water per day as 1.5 beavers, or you can count it as 2 beavers.

At least you are learning from your mistakes. Your largest mistake is assuming that these lakes can sustain trees and food production. They can't. After several bad tides in a row the land will not be irrigated. You need to setup irrigation ponds with water dumps. I think 3 or 4 will easy sustain 100+ beaver colony with trees and food. Another mistake that you are expanding over the water which is very resource intensive. There is plenty of land on the edges of the map, just use stairs and occasional platform. This map is easier on hard mode than some other maps. You always have plenty of water, just need enough pumps.

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You have less water exits than source blocks, I’m sure you will fix it in the future, but for anyone new in the future!

You need haulers (put a hauling post in) to move the water and other things around the map, and a tank near the pumps helps a lot too

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