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[zeziba]

So, the dwarves are going extra crazy today they decided it would be a grand idea to open the side of a 12 z-level volcano up and let it drain. Lost two dwarves to the volcano already and the rest are sealed up in their new home,

Once the volcano is done draining should I reclaim or just make it work with my 5 remaining dwarves?

[Mura]

Volcanoes replenish. It will never fully drain.

That said, in the words of a sage, make it work.

[crekit]

Won't it just like, drain stupidly slowly and then eventually evaporate?

[Mura]

That too.

You may wish to tap it in multiple places along the side of the volcano, as lava is (a) never pressurized and (b) rather viscous.

[mastahcheese]

By the end of this project I doubt you'll still have those 5 dwarves alive.

[Wrex]

You CAN "pressurize" Magma with a series of pumps to get the boatmurdered style lava cannon though.

[zeziba]

Well I have access to candy picks that I just so happened to drop on the wayside for my "Slaves" to pick up when they enter the map. The 5 dwarves are locked in a magma proof cell and drainage of the volcano is still underway.

2 levels of the tower are drained and more to follow and the map can't drain the magma fast enough so it's starting to collect.

[Mura]

If you flood the region with lava, do immigrants stop coming, or do they burn to death the instant they enter the map?

I haven't survived long enough in this scenario to find out.

EDIT: Waitwaitwaitwait. Wait. Why the hell are you using candy picks, boy?

[Loud Whispers]

If you tapped into the volcano at multiple points, would it just spew forth magma in a guttural wave of red every time it tried to refill?

[MrAnderson]

If you tapped into the volcano at multiple points, would it just spew forth magma in a guttural wave of red every time it tried to refill?

afaik the refilling process is more like 1/7 at a time per full area of the volcano on the top level that currently has magma in it. If full, the next z-level is taken.
At my current embark i have pumps at the top of a volcano and it refills very slowly 

[keyreper]

ahh i see what you have! a case of dwarfism, let me get you some thing to help you with that
*1 table spoon of grinned elf ears
*3 table spoons of crushed cand (dont ask how we crushed it, its complex)
*2 metric tones of obsidian
*AND A WORLD FULL OF MAGMA!!!!!