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[Gus Smedstad]

In my last game, I went straight for the Magma Sea, and as I was building my pump stack bringing up magma from level 7, I discovered a magma tube that reached up to level 121.  Which left me understandably annoyed, since that's 100+ pumps I didn't need to build, and pump construction is much slower than just exploration.

So what do you do, normally, when looking for magma?  Explore each cavern as you encounter it?  Or just go for the sea and forget looking for higher sources?

 - Gus

[Shoku]

I generate a world with high volcanism so that pools will most likely show up and then I explore the layers.

I haven't bothered with pumping it up to the surface though. Traders bring goods to the bottom of the world just fine.

[Dave Mongoose]

Since a magma tube cuts through every layer, you're quite likely to reveal it if you scout out the caverns. They're large enough that it's unlikely for one to pass through a cavern layer without being exposed.

Otherwise it's just luck - I happened to breach the caverns right next to the top of a magma pipe, and I wasn't even expecting to have one on this map.