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[telkoth]

I read the well guide on the wiki, but something isn't working out.

ah... I'll prepare some pictures...

Ground Level


Basement 1


Basement 2


Basement 3


Basement 3 (proving there's enough water, because the graphics look messed up to me)


the area on Basement 1 that I cleared was because I thought "maybe I need the well to have an empty floor below it, or something" in desperation, since nothing else was working.

[amade]

Have you channelled the floor on where the well is supposed to be placed?

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Side view

Place well over open space, not on floor!
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. =  wall, ~ = water


[telkoth]

ah!  must build a channel first?  I'll try that.

[zooeyglass]

Yup. Well is built on empty space over water, not on land.

[Dracoid]

Sorry to bump an old thread but I have this same problem. I understand about the open space requirement but I don't understand - how can I create open space?

Channeling creates a downward slope on the top level and an upward slope on the level underneath. How do I create an actual hole?

[Beeskee]

You can remove the ramps with d-z I think. You only get ramps if you channel into a wall below though, if it's already been mined out then you just get a hole.

[Quietust]

You can remove the ramps with d-z I think. You only get ramps if you channel into a wall below though, if it's already been mined out then you just get a hole.

Er, d-z is for turning ramps into floors - if you want to actually remove the floor, you need to dig channels (using d-h) all the way to the bottom.

[Beeskee]

I thought you had to remove the ramp before you could channel, hehe

[vassock]

You create open space by channeling down. It just won't say "open space" until you also channel down on the next Z-level. You basically need a hole throw which you can drop straight down into water and then place the well to block that hole at the top.

[Hans Lemurson]

I made a well that channeled through 40z's of solid rock to the ceiling of a cavern, and then 60z's more down to a pool on at the cavern floor.

Interestingly, you can put multiple wells along the same column at different Z-levels and they'll all work.  I have one well using a bronze bucket and chain, and the one below it uses a green dyed rope-reed rope and golden bucket, so I can tell them apart when going up and down.  Both buckets rise and fall independently and provide water to my wounded patients.

[Beeskee]

That's a heck of a well depth. O.o; I usually put them right above the water on the surface and in the caverns.

[Hans Lemurson]

They go that deep because that's where the water is. 
You can read about my predicament HERE.

Currently my slow-as-snails wells (it takes soooo long for the buckets to make the journey!!!) are what are keeping my wounded alive until I managed to complete my 100z pump-stack.