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[jaxy15]

I found raw adamantine.
I want it to create some new weaponry, and upgrade my spearman's spear.
Unfortunately, it's warm raw adamantine.

[gtmattz]

That can mean magma below or above the stuff.  Unfortunately adamantine shows up in the magma sea, and that is not really drainable, as all the map edges which magma touches generate new magma constantly.  What you CAN do is to obsidianize the magma surrounding the adamantine, allowing you to dig it all out.

[jaxy15]

How would I get water to the magma sea, exactly?

[gtmattz]

Water flows downward, you have picks, figure it out.

[Flare]

The caverns usually have some sort of water flowing in from the edge of the map. Some maps have rivers and aquifers too which you can use, although the passage needed to move this water to the magma sea will probably be far longer , but in that case, it will probably be more run.

Alternatively, you could try pumping the magma out long enough for you to dig out the adamatine. If you have enough pumps working at it and a large enough exit tunnel it is possible. I've inadvertently drained the top layer of the magma sea with a single pump before. A couple of them ought to do it faster than the several years it took in my instance.