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[Man of Paper]

I recently genned a world in .14 that happened to have a volcano within a glacier. Against my better judgment, I embarked. This land is inhospitable by normal (undwarven) standards. There is absolutely no other life here.
Now that you know my situation, you probably caught on to my project: creating a pure obsidian fortress. My first attempt ended in failure (my miners got encased in ice). My second attempt is ongoing: I'm planning on draining the volcano by digging into it every few z-levels at varying points for maximum glacier destruction, providing my miners with a quick escape route before breaching the volcano.
This is also my first time working with the universal solution.

Any advice for my inevitable third embark here?

[Eagle_eye]

I like glacial volcanoes as well, and I've got to say.... don't just let the magma out onto the glacier. Instead, channel out a pathway, line it with stone, and tap into that with floodgates. much more miner friendly.

[Man of Paper]

Much more user friendly, too.
I don't recall how to stop announcements (such as those of collapsing stuff) from pausing the game, so I have to spam hit my spacebar as the magma eats away at the glacier, causing collapses all willy-nilly.

[Aramco]

Much more FPS friendly.

[languard]

Much more user friendly, too.
I don't recall how to stop announcements (such as those of collapsing stuff) from pausing the game, so I have to spam hit my spacebar as the magma eats away at the glacier, causing collapses all willy-nilly.

announcements.txt in the data init folder will fix this for you.