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[Inevitability]

They're just converting the energy from the glowing pits that keeps the HFS from collapsing under its own weight to matter.
No violation of physics involved at all.

[Pearofclubs]

They're just converting the energy from the glowing pits that keeps the HFS from collapsing under its own weight to matter.
No violation of physics involved at all.

Is that how it works?

Somehow I always thought of it as the metal getting some horrible dwarf-based mold on it, and as dwarves continue to handle it, more and more of the nasty stuff gets incorporated into the metal, causing the metal to seem to multiply in volume, when in reality you probably shouldn't use that for anything that's going to come into contact with food.

[fractalman]

They're just converting the energy from the glowing pits that keeps the HFS from collapsing under its own weight to matter.
No violation of physics involved at all.

Is that how it works?

Somehow I always thought of it as the metal getting some horrible dwarf-based mold on it, and as dwarves continue to handle it, more and more of the nasty stuff gets incorporated into the metal, causing the metal to seem to multiply in volume, when in reality you probably shouldn't use that for anything that's going to come into contact with food.

HAH!

Personally, I see it as the dwarves "crystalizing" the target metal out of the magma...which admittedly only makes sense if you attach the workshop to the magma sea.