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[Vanguard Warden]

You should run the whole thing using a stacked pump tower set up quite a few z-levels up. That way you just turn on the magma faucet until you get the tub to 2/7, then the water faucet until it's all cooled. and filled to 2/7 with water, then back to magma. Much more efficient than building specific pumps for each level off to the side.

[Leafsnail]

Why the hell has this just given me the idea of making an enormous glass pyramid out in the desert?  It could be solid, and then I could make a series of catacombs that lead into the middle.  Full of traps and horrible creatures, of course.

[zchris13]

You should run the whole thing using a stacked pump tower set up quite a few z-levels up. That way you just turn on the magma faucet until you get the tub to 2/7, then the water faucet until it's all cooled. and filled to 2/7 with water, then back to magma. Much more efficient than building specific pumps for each level off to the side.

Because you end up filling it up higher than it should.

[Vanguard Warden]

Just make sure the last level is water and you're fine, it'll all drain out and evaporate without hurting anything. The trick is to use the excess water on the next level up from cooling the magma as your water to pour magma on, and use that excess magma to pour water on. You can make obsidian by either pouring water on magma, or magma on water.

Unless you mean you'd wind up with more than one level of the same type of liquid in a row, which you wouldn't if you payed any attention. You don't need to fill it up carefully to 7/7 to make obsidian, just until everything is at least 2/7.

[CobaltKobold]

1/7 is adequate. You need to pond water on from a level or two above though.

[Vanguard Warden]

If you're talking about pouring water onto magma, yeah. I'm not sure if magma poured onto 1/7 water will make obsidian though. You want more than 1/7 regardless, or it'll wind up evaporating halfway through the process and screw up your layers.

[Doppel]

Also, if you're planning to have magma powered furnaces and what not inside your obsidian tower then pre-plan channeled out pools which will become pockets of magma ready to be used after you start digging out your rooms and what not. Same with water (for for example waterstations, or if planning on building an artificial waterfall or w/e). Only thing  to keep in mind is to not pour water/magma directly into the channeled out pools, lest the obsidian created falls down instead of close the pool off.