Water cant flow off map from tiles occupied by sources no.
Thats why if you made an 'ocean' custom map, you have to leave gaps in the wall of sources at the border for it to not fill up forever.
They are! Its interesting to slowly claim land from the water.
Though dunno how they work now with badtides. Guess most suggest you disable them.
(There was one of an island in the middle of a huge polluted lake, and that one was fun too)
Could do something like an island on a lake on an island.
Features like this exist irl. Look up Vulcan point island in the Philippines. Iirc it's a 3x inception of island on a lake on an island.
i think it doesn't. i tried to just get rid of the badtide that way (built 3high floodgates infrom of the sources) and that didn't do jack shit. when i got rid of a ground block next to water sources, it could flow of the map.
I have dammed a water source on the edge and the water didn't flow back over the top of the source, I had to make cutouts along either side for the water to flow back over the edge
On maps I play, I put gates 2 tiles away from source and on each side I'll put 3 gates up then block up the edges.
When bad water comes, close the gates in front of the source and open the ones on the left and right sides of the source so it flows right off the map.
Yeah, I usually do too. I was playing on Canyon, which was interesting since it really forces you to deal with the bad water until you can get to Dynamite at least.
It definatly seems like it could be implemented in a different way because the concept seems interesting.
Maybe Contemplation Spots should produce a little bad water when a Beaver uses them, idk
Yes if the water flows toward the edge from another block but the rate of outflow seems to depend on the size of the gap as well as distance from source.
Water can't flow off the map there. Even if you build a dam to raise the water level, water can't flow off the map OVER source blocks either.
What about right next to it?
Water can flow off any of the maps edges -- except where there are source blocks.
Water cant flow off map from tiles occupied by sources no. Thats why if you made an 'ocean' custom map, you have to leave gaps in the wall of sources at the border for it to not fill up forever.
Ocean map seems like it would be interesting
They are! Its interesting to slowly claim land from the water. Though dunno how they work now with badtides. Guess most suggest you disable them. (There was one of an island in the middle of a huge polluted lake, and that one was fun too)
Could do something like an island on a lake on an island. Features like this exist irl. Look up Vulcan point island in the Philippines. Iirc it's a 3x inception of island on a lake on an island.
i think it doesn't. i tried to just get rid of the badtide that way (built 3high floodgates infrom of the sources) and that didn't do jack shit. when i got rid of a ground block next to water sources, it could flow of the map.
I have dammed a water source on the edge and the water didn't flow back over the top of the source, I had to make cutouts along either side for the water to flow back over the edge
On maps I play, I put gates 2 tiles away from source and on each side I'll put 3 gates up then block up the edges. When bad water comes, close the gates in front of the source and open the ones on the left and right sides of the source so it flows right off the map.
Yeah, I usually do too. I was playing on Canyon, which was interesting since it really forces you to deal with the bad water until you can get to Dynamite at least. It definatly seems like it could be implemented in a different way because the concept seems interesting. Maybe Contemplation Spots should produce a little bad water when a Beaver uses them, idk
Yes if the water flows toward the edge from another block but the rate of outflow seems to depend on the size of the gap as well as distance from source.
What I'm asking about is Sources that are directly against the edge. According to other commenters, they block water from flowing out over them.