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[Lagslayer]

From what I understand, oceans, rivers, volcanoes, and the magma sea all regenerate their lost liquids, even when frozen. What i don't know is how often they do this. Does anybody know?

[MagmaMcFry]

Ocean tiles and river source tiles 1 beyond edge of map behave like an aquifer. The magma sea uses the same mechanics.

As for the volcanoes, I have no clue. Sometimes I see a 7/7 tile of magma spawn at the topmost volcano level. I don't know exactly how multiple levels refill.

Edit: fixed typo.

[NecroRebel]

Volcanoes refill by intermittently and randomly having "spurts" of magma composed of 1-3 blocks of 7/7 magma stacked directly on top of one another.

Water bodies and the magma sea refill constantly from the map edge. Bodies of water won't "refill" when frozen in the sense that more water/ice won't appear in a frozen lake, but any square with water in it will turn into an ice wall when it gets cold enough and ice walls will turn into 7/7 water when they get warm enough, so a partially full pool will gain water during the freezing cycle.

[Lagslayer]

So if I am in an area where water is frozen year-round, and I mine some of the ice out, it won't respawn and insta-kill any dwarves using the area at the time?

[NecroRebel]

Nope, not unless you put magma adjacent to it, heating the ice and melting it to water, then removed the magma to refreeze it.

[Lagslayer]

Alright, thanks for all the responses.