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[Jorshamo]

How can I mine the adamantine veins completely? I punctured one, but I can't get all the ore because I'd strike magma, and the part in the SMR is hollow and disjointed, so I can't get from one level to another. This leaves me with a very limited amount to use for weapons and armor. Does anybody know any way to get the rest of the ore?

[Urist Imiknorris]

Hollow and disjointed? Just carve up/down stairs out of the whole thing.

Also, obsidianize the magma around the adamantine. Buckets of water work well.

[zilpin]

Yes, obsidianize the adjacent magma.
I usually don't use buckets, though.  I carefully drain underground oceans into the magma sea where I need it.
Designated pits for buckets are safer, though.

[Jorshamo]

Thanks for the suggestion on obsidian. I hadn't thought of that, but in retrospect that really seems like the only option. Is the magma in the magma sea infinite?

And by hollow, I mean it leads to hell, so I don't want to open it.

This is what I mean by disjointed, though that's probably not the right word..

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Z2 and above is fort/rest of vein

Z1
SMR##################
#####################
###X#############XX##
###X###XXXX####XX####
###X###X..XXXXX######
####X##X..X##########
#####XXXXXX######X###
##########X######X###
###########X#####X###
############XXXXX####

Z0
SMR##XXXXXX##########
######X##############
#######X##XXX########
#######XXXX##########
#######X..X##########
#######X..XXXX#######
#######XXXX###XX#####
################X####
################X####
#####################
# SMR
X Unmined adamantine
. Open space

The bits on Z0 can't be accessed from Z1, because there are no adamantine tiles on the spot, save for the central tube. And hitting the hollow section will open hell, right? I've never actually breached hell or even found Adamantine prior to this embark, so I don't know what happens.

[Camden1990]

I think the general thing to do is build a dining room in hell, in the theme of Sparta.

[zilpin]

Getting around hell access is tough.

I once set up a couple very long paths to noble bait locked behind doors, then broke through to hell in one spot, let all the evil in, sealed it off using a collapse (lever linked to support holding up native rock in a pre-planned area), then quickly floored off the bottom level of all adamantine tubes I'd found.  The collapse is particularly challenging to plan, since demons can all fly through any cracks you leave.

Keep the noble bait in a constructed room at ground level, made of glass, for bonus points.

It takes quite a lot of work for those last few precious stones of ore.
At least, that's the only way I know.

I've tried to flood the tube with magma followed with water, to obsidianize the tube itself, but that never quite works right for me.

[gtmattz]

Osidianizing the magma is my preferred method, however the layer above the SMR has to be left alone, as you cannot obsidianize the magma directly above the smr for some reason.

[Urist Imiknorris]

SMR eats everything.

[Max White]

I think the general thing to do is build a dining room in hell, in the theme of Santa.

Fix'd. Tis' the season, after all!