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[blainemono]

I've started a new fortress with a volcano on the map. Usually when volcano is present I first dig some magma piping below the workshop floor, then dig a shaft from volcano's mouth down to the piping, one square of rock between magma pipe and a shaft, then channel magma down the shaft - all this to prevent my miners from getting a faceful of hot lava when breaching the volcano pipe wall.

Usually it works just fine. This time though my miner died of suffocation just as he finished digging the vertical shaft. Why would he do that?

[Kearn]

lava mist?

[blainemono]

He hasn't been exposed to any lava. the only reason I can think of is he got heated via contact with a hot magma pipe wall, some of his clothes got spontaneously combusted and he choked on a smoke. Although his corpse and his equipment weren't on fire so I dunno.

The other only reason I can think of is this is some kind of a new mechanic introduced in .16 - like, there were quite a lot of rocks on the square that he died on - maybe he sorta drowned in rock? Although it is kinda ridiculous.