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[Bricks]

Well, dwarves can survive for over 150 years with their only hydration coming from alcohol. That would kill an average human inside of 40 years. Clearly, dwarven physiology is different than that of the dwarves. Dwarves may be able to survive the toxic fumes coming from magma. Since the size of a square is left vague, the floors may be several dozen feet thick which would protect you from magma, especially if it's a particularly insular type of stone.

It's also worth noting that while toxic fumes from a volcano are deadly, so is the smoke from an improperly ventilated charcoal forge - such as a forge inside of a mine. Presumably toxic gasses are either something Toady isn't going to worry about or something he'll get around to.

I imagine never, seeing as how magma forges would be impossible by default.  Which would be lame.

[RavingManiac]

There's a difference between 'it works this way because effort hasn't been made to make it work correctly' and 'effort has been made to make it work this way'.

By which I mean, convection not killing dwarves in the magma forges isn't a good argument that they should be able to survive a flow by standing on a chair.

Well, having  your dwarves catch fire when standing near magma or in a magma forge would really hinder gameplay. What matters is not realism, but fun.

[Pilsu]

I doubt you actually catch fire, just die from the heat

[Vester]

And you'll probably be tasty, too.

[G-Flex]

If built with the right mechanisms or materials, you could build a magma forge that avoids the convection problem entirely, by selectively allowing magma flow and that sort of thing.

Of course, the big problem here is that when you use the heat from magma, and the magma cools, you have friggin' rock. It's not like you're using steam or hot water, where the stuff just flows away after in less energetic state.

[eerr]

If built with the right mechanisms or materials, you could build a magma forge that avoids the convection problem entirely, by selectively allowing magma flow and that sort of thing.

Of course, the big problem here is that when you use the heat from magma, and the magma cools, you have friggin' rock. It's not like you're using steam or hot water, where the stuff just flows away after in less energetic state.

use the magma to boil water, roman bath style.

or roman stew-pot style.

[G-Flex]

Boiling water reaches 100 degrees Celsius. You think that's hot enough to smelt iron?

[Granite26]

There's a difference between 'it works this way because effort hasn't been made to make it work correctly' and 'effort has been made to make it work this way'.

By which I mean, convection not killing dwarves in the magma forges isn't a good argument that they should be able to survive a flow by standing on a chair.

Well, having  your dwarves catch fire when standing near magma or in a magma forge would really hinder gameplay. What matters is not realism, but fun.

I'll call the existing 'if it's in the same square, you die' to be exactly the right amount of abstraction.  Also, you need to check your definition of fun