Fish Ponds/Formable water spots (A cont. of Small Lakes)

[jordancoles]

Fish ponds would be an amazing addition. Who doesnt want a pond in their backyard?? Drop some fish into it and make a node maybe? Feed them seeds in order to upgrade the fish q? Perfect idea for w7 ;]

That is a rather nice idea, actually. Terraform and generate a node which you have some control over. The idea definitely deserves its own thread.

Possible items used,
Small pond - 100 stones, 100L of water (Water q affecting the fish node)
Large pond - 300 stones, 250L of water

Another possible idea is to add a shallow water digging option to the landscaping menu,
Say, 5L of water in your inv and a shovel allows you to make one tile of shallow water which can be stomped back down to dirt if you'd like. This also removes the problem with deep water being that griefers could surround your house with it or something. As for rams against your walls there can be a 4-5 tile limit from which you can make shallow water from walls possibly?

This leaves the ability to form your own indoor water systems, PERFECT if you'd like to boat around your village quickly, I might add

[cobaltjones]

Yes please give us ANOTHER item to endlessly spiral the quality of. I fucking love that aspect of this game.

[jordancoles]

Yes please give us ANOTHER item to endlessly spiral the quality of. I fucking love that aspect of this game.

Dat gradual increase

[ImAwesome]

as long as they can't be used as moats I see no problem with it. easy way to make sure it can't be: instead of digging it why not make a large wooden fish tank(not the glass kind, the huge tanks that are made of metal/plastic that are used in commercial fish farms, I'm actually not sure what they're called) maybe 5X5 in area? could use an interface similar to chicken coops so you know how many fish you have in there and how much room you have for new fish...

[jordancoles]

as long as they can't be used as moats I see no problem with it. easy way to make sure it can't be: instead of digging it why not make a large wooden fish tank(not the glass kind, the huge tanks that are made of metal/plastic that are used in commercial fish farms, I'm actually not sure what they're called) maybe 5X5 in area? could use an interface similar to chicken coops so you know how many fish you have in there and how much room you have for new fish...

The water would be shallow water, so people could walk over it. Also it could be gotten rid of by say, stomping it back to dirt or by paving so planing rams wouldnt be a problem also, water transport via boats in villages to your own personal path is badass

[ImAwesome]

you editted while I was distracted in game and had already started posting. as long as it can easilly be destroyed I'm ok with it, even as an asthetic moat

and yes many times I've wanted to have a little river path between 2 points, that would be a huge help to getting around...

edit: if you dig it, it would have to be a build option for a canal that can only be placed at a rivers edge and would need stone or brick to keep the water from eroding the dirt around it...sounds great in theory, but would probably be a pain. that said I still want it.

[jordancoles]

I just like the idea of being able to raise the fish q and fish in the comfort of your own home. Now all we need is a leech farm

If you've ever played harvest moon for the gameboy colour the trenching could work similar to that. Where you start from a water source and cut out the path you'd like of water. So you basically dig down the earth for the water to flow into. This would give the chance to run lines of shallow water paths all throughout your town from one source of deep water/pond. This would eliminate roads for the most part and result in quick travel without the use of cross roads.

[Mvpeh]

Interesting idea, however, I'm sure this would be abused. Creating a hearthvault would become even easier with this, by creating ponds around walls, et cetera. It'd have to have a steep metal cost, maybe 5 steel to support pond walls, as I said before, and maybe you could only make one pond per 300x300 tile area, although one-pond-sided Hearth Vaults would exist.. the entire concept is exposed to griefing and exploiting as a whole.

[jordancoles]

Interesting idea, however, I'm sure this would be abused. Creating a hearthvault would become even easier with this, by creating ponds around walls, et cetera. It'd have to have a steep metal cost, maybe 5 steel to support pond walls, as I said before, and maybe you could only make one pond per 300x300 tile area, although one-pond-sided Hearth Vaults would exist.. the entire concept is exposed to griefing and exploiting as a whole.

It wouldn't break anything as you could tile over it or stomp it down to dirt if you wanted, it'd be shallow water so you could walk on it. The most it'd leave would be vandi scents outside if you build a moat around your walls

[DDDsDD999]

I prefer the landscaping idea more then the pond idea. In my opinion there should be dig a shallow water tile like you suggested, or a channel that leaks shallow water onto the tile you channeled. The water would obviously have to be stomped to dirt if you want to replace it back to land. The tiles would have to be a more brownish water to show it's replaceable. It should be walkable by animals though.