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[Rhaken]

I have magma forges set up atop the magma sea in my fort. Built over an artificial floor, the plan was to eventually pave over the entire area, giving me access to the third cavern level and its resources.

Then the skeletal blind cave ogre came. It harrassed a smith, then fell into the magma sea.

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It's been down there for months, always burning, never being fully consumed. Worse still, it's been giving me constant announcement spam about being caught in magma. Sometime later, a skeletal giant olm did the same thing, and I now get double the spam. Their combat logs were at 68 pages each, and my own <a>lerts would never go beyond a single page.

Now it's gone so far that all my combat logs are void.

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Does anyone have any what the hell just happened here?

[Lagslayer]

I've found that my announcement log resets every season.

[Girlinhat]

In this case you might want to utilize DFHack.  Use the fluid generator to create a 1/7 tile of flowing water above or on these creatures.  It will then cast into obsidian, encasing and killing them, although you will have that block of obsidian there, if you care about it.

Alternatively, archer them to death, or mod an animal to live in magma.  Like, change dogs to survive in magma, go kill them, and un-mod, or something.

[slothen]

if you dump bones in magma, they melt.  This guy is made of bones, so he should melt.  I assume you have temperature on, so beyond that I have no idea why he isn't melting.

[Girlinhat]

Because the undead don't play by the rules.  They have a traditional HP system, unlike normal animals that sorta-kinda obey biology.  It seems that magma is a very slow drainer for HP.

[Lamphare]

conduct a malicious cave-in atop it might end this irritation.