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[Tokeli]

I've got no clue how to fix this and unless I do, my magma forges will take an entire year to fill up, or I must sacrifice six dwarves to the fire. I found out that a one-tile tunnel with a fortification at one end fills things up VERY slowly, and I wanted to build six more tunnels to speed up the process. The only problem is I'd need floodgates to be able to drain the sewers. I'd rather attach all the floodgates to one lever for aesthetics, but that would mean I would have to open them to allow my engravers in to carve out the fortifications, trapping them in with the existing lava. Anyone see a way around this or should I just give up and use two levers?

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[Mini]

Make the fortifications a few tiles back, then build the floodgates and attach them to a lever and then channel out the rest of the tunnels.

[DeathToGamer]

if I see what I think I do... you have 2 floodgates?

I would make a second lever to the floodgate that is closed and then use it to open up that one floodgate...

then use first lever to close both... do as fast as you can or you'll have a lot of magma left over

[gtmattz]

What is on the level above? if it is clear you could use a magma safe pump and some creative tunneling and get those others filled in short time.

Just make sure to pump from the tile adjacent to where you tapped the pipe.

[Kanddak]

More/wider tunnels won't help. Pump it.

[FleshForge]

Wider tunnels just makes it flow a lot slower, yeah.