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[Firnagzen]

What happens when you have an obsidian factory with some leftover obsidian? Apply water, apply magma... Do you wind up with an obsidian wall with embedded obsidian?

I know the conventional is to add water to magma, so the obsidian will melt... But has anyone tried the above? The thought of an uber high density wall of obsidian gives me the giggles. Perhaps if there's enough obsidian in one tile a black hole would be generated...

[Duke 2.0]

 I think generally it gets annihilated. However, Speargroove does have a bugged tile with both an obsidian stone and an obsidian wall.

[Firnagzen]

Blast. What can and can't get embedded in an obsidian wall, then?

[Jim Groovester]

No, everything that gets encased in obsidian is perfectly preserved, save that it survived the magma in the first place.

There are creative ways to use this on goblins. Think uncannily good obsidian statues. Well, actually, you'll get an obsidian stone, and then a goblin corpse along with whatever he was wearing, but you can turn the obsidian stone into a statue and pretend that it's an obsidian goblin.

[Firnagzen]

Yep, but my question is: Obsidian stone + water + magma=?

Duke says the stone disappears. How about, say, other stones? Like, I dunno, microcline?

[Jim Groovester]

You'll get a microcline chunk encased in obsidian. When you dig it out, you'll get the microcline back and an obsidian chunk.

[assimilateur]

You'll get a microcline chunk encased in obsidian.

If you care about getting rid of that microcline - and other potential "impurities", I guess - before it gets encased, you can always wait for it to melt and dissolve before pouring water over it.

[Skorpion]

It works, as long as the obsidian doesen't melt in the magma.

See, my first obsidian farm had a bug where I had to keep channeling out one square to be rid of excess magma and water. One time I ended up with 6 deep obsidian rocks there.