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Anubis039

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Boiling Magma where there is none
« on: December 29, 2010, 05:30:32 pm »
I had a miner caught in a cave-in, and he generated a combat report from it. The second to last entry in the report is this: "The expedition leader is caught in a cloud of boiling magma!" this was an aboveground collapse and there is no volcano or magma pipe.
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Re: Boiling Magma where there is none
« Reply #1 on: December 29, 2010, 05:44:42 pm »
Quote from: Anubis039 on December 29, 2010, 05:30:32 pm
I had a miner caught in a cave-in, and he generated a combat report from it. The second to last entry in the report is this: "The expedition leader is caught in a cloud of boiling magma!" this was an aboveground collapse and there is no volcano or magma pipe.
That's normal, consider it a harmless bug. The game takes in account the actual material of the stuff; stone powder/smoke is the same as evaporating magma. Magma is basically molten rock. I hope I'm expressing the problem well...

EDIT: what Quietust said. *should stop trying to type coherently past 1am*
« Last Edit: December 30, 2010, 06:38:52 am by Musashi »
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Re: Boiling Magma where there is none
« Reply #2 on: December 29, 2010, 07:12:05 pm »
Cave-in dust is sometimes mistakenly labeled using the material's gas state rather than its solid powder state (i.e. it's equivalent to it saying "steam" instead of "snow") - thus, while it may have said "boiling magma", it actually meant "stone dust".
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Re: Boiling Magma where there is none
« Reply #3 on: December 30, 2010, 11:36:27 am »
Thanks
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