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synkell

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Magma AQ
« on: August 21, 2010, 10:52:51 am »
A little help with some magma stuff here  :-\. After having 2 of my legendary miners die in a magma bath by accident due to my pump splashing the magma all over , how do i safely put the magma in a reserviour? I have a big pit dug up just behind the pump , but even if its not full , the magma still flowed out! Advice plz , thanks !
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Evergod41

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Re: Magma AQ
« Reply #1 on: August 21, 2010, 11:17:38 am »
surround the pump with walls, so that the magma only has two directions, foward, and back, and possibly up if you let the pump run to long...
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Khift

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Re: Magma AQ
« Reply #2 on: August 21, 2010, 11:34:28 am »
Pumps will never move liquids to a higher z-level than themselves.
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synkell

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Re: Magma AQ
« Reply #3 on: August 21, 2010, 12:01:38 pm »
ah k ... will do. i think i got the pump problem understood now , it was spewing magma in 3 directions from the "out" end.
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Re: Magma AQ
« Reply #4 on: August 21, 2010, 01:00:59 pm »
Quote from: synkell on August 21, 2010, 12:01:38 pm
ah k ... will do. i think i got the pump problem understood now , it was spewing magma in 3 directions from the "out" end.

Technically the pump will only spew out the far end, the situation is that liquids flow in a circular pattern so the magma was coming around the sides. 
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Just try it! Its not like you die IRL if Urist McMiner falls into magma.