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Author Topic: Dumping magma into channel = smoke+death  (Read 570 times)

vassock

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Dumping magma into channel = smoke+death
« on: December 30, 2014, 10:19:45 pm »
Other times when I dumped the magma out like this, nothing happened. This time, the dwarf catches fire and dies. Looks like magma ends up in right place, though.

Seems to only happen when done by someone carrying a child.

Now it happened without having a child. Can this have something to do with high friction setting on the block in front of the channel?
« Last Edit: December 30, 2014, 10:29:36 pm by vassock »
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vassock

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Re: Dumping magma into channel = smoke+death
« Reply #1 on: December 31, 2014, 12:24:55 am »
I think I solved my problem. Dwarves were taking a shortcut by walking in empty channels. Sometimes they got unlucky and were in that channel just as another dwarf was pouring the magma over the edge!
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Re: Dumping magma into channel = smoke+death
« Reply #2 on: December 31, 2014, 03:19:26 am »
And I assume you know you can reduce the risk by declaring the channel a high cost passage zone ('d', 'o', and then I select both 'r' and the high cost alternative since I'm not completely sure, and then mark the channel).
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