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[InsanityPrelude]

Seconding the request for worldgen, and a point in the right direction towards the site itself.

[DarkDragon]

Thus far I've gotten a pipe like this every time I've embarked on a volcano.

The first one was like yours, stretching OVER the mountain itself and being just a giant spire filled with flamey gooey death.

My current site that I'm toying with has an actual volcano formation though, with the entire pipe encased in a 50+ z-level tall aboveground mountain, and going down another 100+ z-levels before being hidden by the fog of war effect.

I'm building my fort on top of said volcano.

[cephalo]

I'm curious to know if the magma will replenish from the pipe.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Since every map has magma seas now, magma should come from the edge of the map. Since magma is chunky, the pressure might not drive it up into the pipe.

[Mohreb el Yasim]

I'm curious to know if the magma will replenish from the pipe.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Since every map has magma seas now, magma should come from the edge of the map. Since magma is chunky, the pressure might not drive it up into the pipe.

i tested it once, it still replenish (for test i just made a hole on a pipe like this (but a smaller one) there were 7's apearing on the top of the tube.

[Leperous]

It seems easier to breach magma without dying nowadays, set a novice engraver to carve out a fortification in the side and he should survive.

[random51]

Seconding the request for worldgen, and a point in the right direction towards the site itself.

You don't really need the worldgen.  Most of the default worldgens have at least 1 volcano required.  Go to that volcano and it will be very similar to this one.

[derekiv]

Spoiler: 142 down (click to show/hide)

And it keeps going, however it stops being revealed after 150.

WOW, this is awesome for pulling a boatmurdered ftw device.

[Slackratchet]

My current fortress is built on and around something like that. I was shocked when I was able to cap the thing without every seeing an Imp.

[gtmattz]

I'm curious to know if the magma will replenish from the pipe.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Since every map has magma seas now, magma should come from the edge of the map. Since magma is chunky, the pressure might not drive it up into the pipe.

Not only does it replenish, but it seems that they replenish at a much faster rate than the volcanoes/magma pipes in 40d.

[sweitx]

I'm curious to know if the magma will replenish from the pipe.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Since every map has magma seas now, magma should come from the edge of the map. Since magma is chunky, the pressure might not drive it up into the pipe.

Not only does it replenish, but it seems that they replenish at a much faster rate than the volcanoes/magma pipes in 40d.

Maybe that's why the pipe is uniformly shaped, the "magma sea" tiles that generate magma may have some flag that trigger them to generate up to a certain height.

[RandomNumberGenerator]

Thus far I've gotten a pipe like this every time I've embarked on a volcano.

The first one was like yours, stretching OVER the mountain itself and being just a giant spire filled with flamey gooey death.

My current site that I'm toying with has an actual volcano formation though, with the entire pipe encased in a 50+ z-level tall aboveground mountain, and going down another 100+ z-levels before being hidden by the fog of war effect.

I'm building my fort on top of said volcano.

Same, thought I've embarked on 3. All 3 broke the surface, though one was at the same level as the mountain(So you could actually walk to the top) while the other two had a 'chimney' like the OP's where they strech some 30 Z-levels up in the air with no ramps to access the top. Volcanoes are weird in 2010.

I have yet to encounter a subterrainian magma pipe, though.

[Jay]

By my calculations, your pipe there should be approximately 189 z-levels, give or take a few.

[Kogan Loloklam]

Volcanoes are weird in 2010.

It isn't just volcanoes. I embarked next to a river near a steep cliff, and the river projected out about 12 tiles, just the width of the river. Underneath was a little hollow area. It'd have been a very impressive setup if not for projecting without rhyme or reason from the cliff face.