Hey everybody! Yesterday WLD posted the 3x3 magic eraser post. I thought, hey, what else is 3x3? Woodcutters huts, wells...and then the farm huts he came up with. But it can also take chunks out of buildings, to save room. You can have 700 woodcutters huts and not even know it. Anyway, I took the well and put it in place of the platform. I playtested. The workers came to the spot where they should be. I added a fire. The workers got water from nowhere. I made another map, made a few buildings, made the wells again and aligned the river with the wells. I shceduled a fire, and the wellworkers didn't come to the river. I added 2-3 more spaces on. I playtested. Finally! The sat down right next the the river! And when the fire came, they ran from the the river, put some buildings out, ran back RIGHT on the river, and turned around with a full bucket. It worked! Who needs wells for water when you can have rivers? The tutorial will be made later.




This is a picture of the well workers sitting by the river without the wells.



This is a picture of one of the well workers putting out a fire and the other one getting water from the river.

Happy mapmaking!
~monkcrazy5

Edit: I also tried making windmill irrigations! I'm just messing around with water features atm, but here's a picture.




No intended beauty here, I just made a little passage to a windmill, diagonally through it. You can't see it, but they can get into the windmill. The river is at max height, apparently windmills are taller than mountains. The problem is that when you change the view 90 degrees, the windmill direction changes. I added ripples to make it more realistic, but only from the screenie's view.

Happy mapmaking!
~monkcrazy5

[This message has been edited by monkcrazy5 (edited 03-21-2008 @ 07:12 PM).]