I noticed that Modbase gives me an error if I try to install some of the very large mods, or more specifically, the very large components.
Martial Arts+ gives me always a crash if I try to install the Meta-megamagic items -component, for example. Most of the components from that mod work well, though, just not that one.

And after you've got an error once, you have to restart ModBase. Otherwise it keeps giving you errors when you try to install mods.

Well, what got me thinking was these:
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-326-fastmagmaworldfloodpart1
http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-327-fastmagmaworldfloodpart2

The magma is somehow circulated there, but the amount of it stays the same. Is this, though, because pipes slowly regenerate the magma you take from it?

Damn quote-end tag isn't working. anyways:

1) You can change the amount of maximum bins assigned to a stockpile by examining its properties with Q.

2) One solution is to build a door adjacent to the tile where you want the floodgate to go. The dwarf will then build the watergate from the other adjacent tile, ie. it won't trap himself in the same tile where the door is in. You will have to remove the door later for things like water flow, though.

So let's say I have a reservoir of water, 8x8x8 tiles in size. I open a floodgate at the side of the reservoir, in the middle z-level of it (4 or 5), and let the water flow into a pump/pump-system, which feeds the water back into the reservoir a few levels higher, but not higher than the reservoir's topmost level. Now the pump generates unpressurized water, but the amount of the water in the reservoir increases because the pump is able to create 7/7 water out of a 1/7 water tile.

Which of the following happens:
a) The pump generates more water than there is to expand to, therefore the pressure in the reservoir increases infinitely.
b) The amount and pressure of water reaches an equilibrium where water is fed into the pump just as fast as it generates water.
c) The pressure doesn't increase and the water just circulates normally in the reservoir.

Now if it were a) (or perhaps b?), you could make the reservoir of water into a cannon by opening some floodgates at the top, or by channeling into the roof of the reservoir. And that would be cool.

Anyone tried this out or have some insight on it?

How about magma? It can't flow up, but if you pump some magma into the (top-level + 1) of the reservoir, would that give the magma a chance to expand rapidly?

A somewhat annoying bug I stumbled into.

I experimentally/accidentally/whatever channeled 9 squares which were above my well, so that light got inside my fortress. That is, I removed the roof from above my well and from the adjacent tiles. Because of that, the area was now 'light' and 'outside'. My dwarves wouldn't drink from the well if I ordered them to stay inside. So I built 25 tiles of wall on top of the hole to block it, so the well area became 'Inside', but it was still 'light'.
Damn dwarves still refused to drink from it.

Just thought someone browsing the forums might want to know.