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[EvilTwin]

yes it is 
but i think the dwarves are more the incarnation of the typical prejudices europeans have against americans
like over-secured entrances for example

[Elvin]

Sorry, but the lyrics just don't quite fit the syllables in the song....

Here's my attempt, building on yours:

And the world it burned, burned, burned,
And we’re the one’s that did it!
It burned, burned, burned,
While all the creatures ran and died.
It burned, burned, burned,
And magma's extremely dwarfy
And the Elves ran and cried like a bunch of little babies
Waa waa waah!
In the Flood of 1018!

[EvilTwin]

and place that magma cube on a region tile with high elevation to make sure the lava goes a long way...

[Itnetlolor]

and place that magma cube on a region tile with high elevation to make sure the lava goes a long way...

Exactly. Plus, the crow's nest base would make for excellent observation of everything fizzling out of existence way, way, way, WAY down below (a minimum of 50z from the ground or tallest peak).

I'd like to see some visualizer screens of the before/after of the location, as well as progressive frames of the melting cube of magma into "The Blob" from an unfortunate adventurer's perspective. If any GCSs get cooked by it though, be sure to bring some butter as well.

I'd like a history report if possible. BTW, I figure that a 6x6 or 10x10 (embark area) magma cube would be far more than adequate to give an entire country a nice thick candy shell.

[Jetsquirrel]

Make a gaint Toad statue with a big waterfall coming out of his mouth and in his arms he wil be holding the word Armok with ofcourse a moat filled with water around him.
Bonus if you can fill his eyes with magma and change the water with magma.
and now imagine it in your head

[Mohreb el Yasim]

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

After a little more screwing around, here's my proposed protocol for constructing a single magma pipeline:

• Pick a magma vent and start a more-or-less regular-sized fort there. This will be a pumping station. Set up a fort, you're going to be here a while.
• Set up the magma pumps to pull from the lowest z-level you can get to. Do not be a dumbass who makes pipes or pump towers more than one tile wide.
• Build a magmaduct to the edge of the map. Walls can't get closer than 5 tiles, so cover those last tiles with drawbridges instead. Raise them with a lever, and then deconstruct the lever. You might want to build bridges at regular intervals along your pipe so that dwarves can get over it.
• This fort can build magma workshops! You're going to make supplies for the rest of your pipeline. If you have sand, make about a million green glass corkscrews, pipes, and blocks. Otherwise, dig up the map looking for iron and nickel, and make those into pump parts instead. If you have bauxite, make it all into mechanisms.
• Make a dump zone for your magma-engineering parts near the end of your pipe and dump all the stuff there. You can also throw in weapons, seed bags, and an anvil. Anything you put here, you don't need to embark with later!
• Abandon this site.
• Embark on the next site of your pipeline, then abandon. This will claim that land as a site where the game will remember objects. Since you're abandoning, don't spend any points on dwarf skills; buy interesting things like steel or bauxite which will be nice to have on the reclaim.
• Visit the previous site as an adventurer. Pick up the stuff in the supply dump, walk over the border into the next site, and drop it. This may take several trips, and someone may want to look into the plausibility of building a water-based supply washer that will move everything automatically. When you're done moving stuff, go to the end of the pipeline, walk in a straight line into the other site, and then succumb to starvation. If you didn't already claim and abandon the next site, this won't work and all the stuff will vanish!
• Reclaim the working site. Use the dead adventurer as an alignment marker to know where the pipeline is on the previous site. Dig a 20x20 pit to the bottom of the map near the border (or larger if you're working from a very tall magma vent); this will be the magma relay tank. Use your supplies to construct a pump system to move magma out of the relay tank. Use the stone excavated from building the pit to construct the next section of pipeline, to another edge of the map. Establish a new supply dump near the pipeline head, and move anything interesting you didn't use.
• Repeat steps 6-9 until you get the pipe to where you want it. Each step will take at least two years because of abandons, and possibly more depending on construction time.
• Visit the original pumping station as an adventurer, and turn on the magma!
• Wait until all the magma on this site is in the relay tank in the next site, then walk over to that site and turn on the pumps.
• Repeat step 12 until the magma is where you want it

It might be faster and more magma-efficient to make a line of pumps each feeding into the next instead of just having a simple pipeline, but that will require a lot of pump parts. Sand would help a lot there.

Some thoughts for turning this all into a massive, worldwide magma collection network:

• Survey the world first and figure out where all the magma vents are and what the most efficient layout will be.
• Have geographical groups of magma vents combine their output at intermediate collection stations. These, and the pipelines following them, will need larger relay tanks like this one.
• The central magma repository should probably be sited on an entire region tile (containing an elf city), or else broken up into several closely-related sites, and extend from the lowest to highest z-levels. It needs to be compartmentalized so that the magma from different branch pipelines doesn't just spread out and evaporate. It needs to be sited on a river to fill with waterwheels to power the pumps for the enormous plumbing network that will allow the whole thing to be instantaneously poured out into the world. It also needs to contain a giant maze of tunnels suspended in the magma for adventurers to explore, where one wrong lever pull will expose them to the magma.
• In many places it would be advisable to pair the magma pipeline with a water pipeline. If anyone can design a reliable closed perpetual-motion machine, this would be the time and place to do it. You may also wish to plan carefully to deforest wooded areas and relay the logs to deserts.
• For bonus points, put all gems and precious metals discovered during construction in the supply relay dumps, eventually collecting them all in special vaults in the central repository.
• For extra bonus points, create a project to harvest all of the world's accessible adamantine and send it to the central repository.
• For super special extra bonus points, collect all of the world's adamantine first and use it to build the central repository.
• This is the ultimate realization of thinking about playing the world instead of individual forts, and would make a fine succession project.

it sounds great,
out of curiosity, what happens if you have water/magma comming in form an other site and you don't put it in a deep reservoire but you let it in a same level(so that water/magma touch the border of the second fortress map)? will it flow back in fortress mode (at least for water since it can flow througth edges) or will game treat this map edge water tile like a water source?

[Firnagzen]

The magma will neither continue to flow nor flow back: It'll just stay there. Map edges are magma impermeable in fortress mode; look up a fortress called Snaketributes for a display of just what one can do with that fact.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

The magma will neither continue to flow nor flow back: It'll just stay there. Map edges are magma impermeable in fortress mode; look up a fortress called Snaketributes for a display of just what one can do with that fact.

yes i know that, but how about water? anyone tested it? 'cause map edge water can be a generating water source like aquifiers, rivers, or not like other end of rivers ...so what about artificial map edge water tiles?

[Kanddak]

yes i know that, but how about water? anyone tested it? 'cause map edge water can be a generating water source like aquifiers, rivers, or not like other end of rivers ...so what about artificial map edge water tiles?

I would be willing to bet anything that nothing would happen. The water-source site would not be loaded into memory while playing the water-receiving site.

In response to your original question I probably would let the magma into the next site at grade; I would dump it into a reservoir in the middle of the receiving site rather than at the edge. The point of putting it into a reservoir at all has to do with issues about which sites stay in memory in adventure mode:

Unfortunately, when you move from the second to the third site, the first one is unloaded from memory and magma stops moving. To make a serious "collect all the world's magma" project, you would probably need to put a relay station on every (or at least every other) site with a magma-vent-sized holding tank, and move the entire contents of each vent one site at a time.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

Actualy what i am thinking about is a small megaproject (i just love nano fortresses) but i am sure it can be done in bigger maps too:
1)choose a nice spot for nano fortress with magma pool, and aquifire (water income and magma forges enabled) or a brook (water + magma forges can be enabled)
2)make a hole about the map like this:
 27 levels nothing (but a 4 wide bridges in edges North East S. W. for later income)
 1 with a 5*5 greenglass shelter for re-embarking
 1 with a sand layer (dropped from above)
 1 open layer with holes around for magma income
3) you make forts around to make a wall around this site
4) you bring water + magma in form one side with a z level upper then the inner fortress maximum
5) as an adventurer you cast the original site to have all z levels from obsidian (you can even the top most becouse of step 4, and the bridges will let you place for trader income later), if done well for the most down level you will have magma for forges, a layer of sand for farming and glass, a small place to re-embark and a hola map cast from obsidian
6) go back and play in your completly sealed obsidian fortress
like a variant you could re open your site with a new embark and then reabandon, make rare resource mining/gathering(ore, gems, wood not for sure that wont away) sites take stuff there with adventurer, then play on your, rich as hell nanofortress ...