Thank you for another nice and long episode! Progress has been made and eventually the water situation will be fully resolved. You're getting there :) The two-tier aqueduct is quite pretty as well and a very ambitious project for hard mode. Nonetheless you are getting it done! 55:04 - I think because you have enough water sources connected, that it overwhelms two sluices. Opening more sluices is one option, adding more edges outside of the sluices to increase flow would be another.
Could you add a pipe with sluices at the bottom of your reservoir? Then you could utilize all the water in it rather than only half of it. I don’t know if that will work or not. Just throwing out an idea. I like the design of your aqueduct. It’s very beautiful!
@notjohnsmithgaming I wish I could draw a picture, haha. But I’ll do my best to explain what I’m thinking. I was thinking you could build a new pipe under or beside the little aqueduct that goes from the reservoir to the village that has two sluice gates at the bottom of the reservoir. It would require you to rebuild all or at least part of that wall of the reservoir, unfortunately. But if you were already considering making the reservoir bigger, you could just implement this idea into the new construction. The water from this pipe could go up to the little aqueduct you already have, however, I’m not sure if that will work since this pipe I’m suggesting wouldn’t be pressurized. So the water might stop flowing once it reaches equilibrium. I don’t know if the water physics in the game takes into account the pressure of the weight of the water above the pipe. You could blast down the side of that crater and have this new pipe go right through the mountain to your village. But that’s a lot of work and you don’t have dynamite yet. Which doesn’t solve your immediate water problem. Sigh. Perhaps my idea won’t work after all. Haha. But I think it would be a good idea to devise some kind of solution that utilizes all of the water in your reservoir. Perhaps rather than having your reservoir at the current level, you could raise the entire thing up so that the lowest part of the reservoir is above your village. Then gravity will be on your side. That might not be as aesthetic as you want though… Maybe you could make it look like the Colosseum or something. Haha. Anyway, I’m mostly tossing out ideas that might give you other ideas. Haha. I haven’t played the game myself, since I don’t have a setup to play games. So take my ideas with a grain of salt. Good luck and I look forward to the next video!
@edwardtheinsane Thanks, now I understand! I don't think that the game takes the pressure of the weight of the water in the reservoir into account, but I might be wrong on that. Maybe we can test that in the future. But what you're definitely right about is that we can never use all the water in the reservoir right now. Blasting a canyon into the side of the crater is an option, then we'll have a connection from the bottom of the reservoir to the irrigation area. Might do that in the future, thanks!
Please keep those time-lapse sections. They are a good thing. If you explain your idea, then there is no need to keep watching you clicking through that idea at a x1 speed. Same for beavers bringing materials and building stuff. Please keep the reasoning and testing at x1 speed, though!
Your aqueducts and channels into your farming area are too narrow so you’re getting loads of evaporation and draining your tank too quickly. Anything that holds water in a dry season needs to be at least 3 wide to minimise evaporation. It makes a big difference
You're right. I really should fix that. I'm hesitating because this would need way more space around the food area and generally speaking the map has more than enough water sources (as soon as we connect them) that evaporation won't be an issue. But yeah, I'll have to think about it again.
Thank you for another nice and long episode! Progress has been made and eventually the water situation will be fully resolved. You're getting there :) The two-tier aqueduct is quite pretty as well and a very ambitious project for hard mode. Nonetheless you are getting it done!
55:04 - I think because you have enough water sources connected, that it overwhelms two sluices. Opening more sluices is one option, adding more edges outside of the sluices to increase flow would be another.
Thank you! Yes, you're right, two sluices just couldn't handle it!
Could you add a pipe with sluices at the bottom of your reservoir? Then you could utilize all the water in it rather than only half of it. I don’t know if that will work or not. Just throwing out an idea. I like the design of your aqueduct. It’s very beautiful!
Thank you!
Where would you put the end of the pipe? I'm not 100% sure that I know what you mean.
@notjohnsmithgaming
I wish I could draw a picture, haha. But I’ll do my best to explain what I’m thinking. I was thinking you could build a new pipe under or beside the little aqueduct that goes from the reservoir to the village that has two sluice gates at the bottom of the reservoir. It would require you to rebuild all or at least part of that wall of the reservoir, unfortunately. But if you were already considering making the reservoir bigger, you could just implement this idea into the new construction. The water from this pipe could go up to the little aqueduct you already have, however, I’m not sure if that will work since this pipe I’m suggesting wouldn’t be pressurized. So the water might stop flowing once it reaches equilibrium. I don’t know if the water physics in the game takes into account the pressure of the weight of the water above the pipe.
You could blast down the side of that crater and have this new pipe go right through the mountain to your village. But that’s a lot of work and you don’t have dynamite yet. Which doesn’t solve your immediate water problem. Sigh. Perhaps my idea won’t work after all. Haha. But I think it would be a good idea to devise some kind of solution that utilizes all of the water in your reservoir. Perhaps rather than having your reservoir at the current level, you could raise the entire thing up so that the lowest part of the reservoir is above your village. Then gravity will be on your side. That might not be as aesthetic as you want though… Maybe you could make it look like the Colosseum or something. Haha.
Anyway, I’m mostly tossing out ideas that might give you other ideas. Haha. I haven’t played the game myself, since I don’t have a setup to play games. So take my ideas with a grain of salt. Good luck and I look forward to the next video!
@edwardtheinsane Thanks, now I understand! I don't think that the game takes the pressure of the weight of the water in the reservoir into account, but I might be wrong on that. Maybe we can test that in the future. But what you're definitely right about is that we can never use all the water in the reservoir right now. Blasting a canyon into the side of the crater is an option, then we'll have a connection from the bottom of the reservoir to the irrigation area. Might do that in the future, thanks!
Please keep those time-lapse sections. They are a good thing. If you explain your idea, then there is no need to keep watching you clicking through that idea at a x1 speed. Same for beavers bringing materials and building stuff. Please keep the reasoning and testing at x1 speed, though!
Thanks for the feedback!
Your aqueducts and channels into your farming area are too narrow so you’re getting loads of evaporation and draining your tank too quickly. Anything that holds water in a dry season needs to be at least 3 wide to minimise evaporation. It makes a big difference
You're right. I really should fix that. I'm hesitating because this would need way more space around the food area and generally speaking the map has more than enough water sources (as soon as we connect them) that evaporation won't be an issue. But yeah, I'll have to think about it again.