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[milaga]

Pfft. Don't be such an elf. If magma won't come to you, you just set up an entirely new area to deal with magmaforges and the associated dwarves.

No ... if the magma won't come to me I damn well MAKE it come to me. I'm not settling for a 200 square walk to the forge when most of my dwarves will go on break before they get there.

Despite my asking every year for more bauxite, my liason has been very stingy. I've only got about six pieces, so it's gonna take a while to move it. And I'd really rather not use my precious adamantine on making mechanisms. I want to see how far I can knock a goblin with mastercrafted adamantine hammer wielded by a superdwarvenly strong champion.

EDIT: Can you manually pump magma? Or will that just make dwarven torches?

[puke]

you can manually pump magma just fine.  you can even use wooden pumps.

you can even use axels to power your wooden magma pumps, as long as the connecting points are protected and the magma cant flow back and melt your mechanisms.

[Sutremaine]

you can even use wooden pumps.

Only if you have temperature turned off. You can use any kind of stone for the block, however, and any kind of metal or glass for the pipe section. (Glass pipe sections (aka tubes) use one bag of sand and metal pipe sections use three bars of metal.)

[Rowanas]

Hmm... I'm actually tempted to build a glass smelter for the first time ever. It may be to do with the fact that I finally have sand (lots of it) and loads of trees in safe-to-cut areas.

[Christes]

you can even use wooden pumps.

Only if you have temperature turned off. You can use any kind of stone for the block, however, and any kind of metal or glass for the pipe section. (Glass pipe sections (aka tubes) use one bag of sand and metal pipe sections use three bars of metal.)

I was under the impression that you could use wood, but it would just degrade very fast.

[Sutremaine]

Any pump that breaks is going to cause magma to pile up in front of it, which will possibly ignite the previous pump in the chain and definitely cause magma to overflow onto the floor where the pump used to be.

Wooden pumps can either function for a little while or break almost instantly. No point risking it even if you don't have sand.

[milaga]

I think I've got about 180 tetrahydrite even without finishing out any of my discovered veins. So I'll probably make all the pump stuff out of copper.

I'll have to turn temperature on for my next foray into magma, but I'll probably need to lower the pop cap. Especially if I get some HFS because those SOFs sound especially fun.