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[dwarfkat]

So I'm trying to set up a massive screw pump stack to get magma from the magma sea up to my forges et. al. Unfortunately if I designate all of them to be built at once, the architects do their thing, then sometime between then and the masons getting around to it the build gets canceled completely. Does anyone know of a better workaround than just designating five at a time?

[PatrikLundell]

Unless you secure the pumps sideways they should collapse as soon as they're finished (same as if you try to build something from a bridge without any other support) unless they are fully supported either by the one above (the one at the top would hang off a gear supported by an axle) or the one below. Thus, I build pump stacks from above and from below, one at a time in each direction, which require a lot of micro management.
Securing pumps sideways involves hooking them up to an axle sideways. That carries its own set of issues, though, such as leakage, or having to use Nether-Cap for a magma pump stack (I don't know what happens if a sideways power connection is not magma safe, but the stack is fully supported when the pumping starts. It's quite possible the sideways axle just burns, but I wouldn't rule out the possibility that it might cause the pump to be considered to be made out of at least one magma unsafe component, and thus collapse).