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[Shadowlord]

I've got a magma pump which isn't pumping magma, for no apparent reason. The input tile is open, has magma below it, the output tile is empty, the pump has power, its animation is changing, but no magma is coming out.

Movie: http://mkv25.net/dfma/movie-304-whatthmagmapumpwontoperatefornoapparentreason

Saved game from just before the hatch over the input tile is opened: http://shadowlord13.googlepages.com/magmaPumpOnStrike.7z

There's a readme.txt in the .7z.

I'm absolutely 100% sure that the pumps are facing the correct way (the lower pump is pumping from west to east, the one above it is pumping east to west) - I deconstructed and rebuilt them (and re-tested them with the same result) before I uploaded this. Also, they pumped before I built the wall two spaces to the right of the lower pump. (But removing it didn't make it start pumping)

[ January 19, 2008: Message edited by: Shadowlord ]

[eltorre]

the pump is taking magma out of a channeled tile, or a pregenerated volcano tile?

i read somewhere that pumps dont take magma out of natural volcano tiles.

[Shadowlord]

As you can see from this, the lower pump worked when the walls were not there: http://screencast.com/t/L7bD7ztR6Bs

(I reloaded from before it began pumping after that happened, as I was rather expecting infinite magma, actually)

[ January 19, 2008: Message edited by: Shadowlord ]

[eltorre]

related to the floor hatch?
it isnt there in the second screen (or hidden by the magma?) but in the video is there.

[Shadowlord]

Maybe, though I hope not. They work fine for water and all that.

[Toady One]

I've downloaded it and I'll take a look at it when I get to the save pile.

[Toady One]

Okay, I've fixed the magma pump problem for the next version.

[veryinky]

quote:Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>Okay, I've fixed the magma pump problem for the next version.</STRONG>

I'm conflicted about this. On the one hand, yay, for magma pumps now functioning correctly.

On the other hand. NOoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

No more magma generators, which means magma is a limited resource again.

Can you make it so magma vents slowly refill or something? Eruptions?

[Toady One]

I can make the vents fill slowly when they are down.  I'll do that for next time.  Full-scale disaster eruptions will have to wait a bit, unless I make a mistake.

[veryinky]

quote:Originally posted by Toady One:
<STRONG>I can make the vents fill slowly when they are down.  I'll do that for next time.  Full-scale disaster eruptions will have to wait a bit, unless I make a mistake.</STRONG>

I really like the refilling vent idea, definitively something I'll look forward to since my favorite means of construction is magma+water obsidian pouring. Makes me feel like I'm pouring concrete.

Also, can you make volcanoes and vents.. more volcano'ish? Like a small obsidian cone instead of just a hole in the ground.