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[bucket]

I found a really great embark point... now if I could only play it. I've been sitting here for ten minutes unpausing due to some constant cave-ins. I think I remember reading this is caused by stone falling into a magma pipe. The question is: when does it end??

[EmperorJon]

Probably infinite obsidian forming and falling. So never.

[NecroRebel]

It's likely that you've got a place where water can fall into the magma sea, thus forming obsidian and instantly collapsing. It can't seal itself because the falling obsidian is lost to the magma sea, thus this is endless.

There is, however, a recourse. Using dfhack's reveal function, find the offending position, and then, using the liquids function, block off the problems with obsidian. Done properly, this should stop the endless collapses, and you can then unreveal the map and play as normal.

[JmzLost]

Find this line in ~data/init/announcments.txt:

[CAVE_COLLAPSE:A_D:D_D:P:R]

Delete the : P:R from the end of the line, this removes 'P'ause and 'R'ecenter.  You will still get message spam, but it will not pause and recenter on every cave-in.

JMZ

[bucket]

Find this line in ~data/init/announcments.txt:

[CAVE_COLLAPSE:A_D:D_D:P:R]

Delete the : P:R from the end of the line, this removes 'P'ause and 'R'ecenter.  You will still get message spam, but it will not pause and recenter on every cave-in.

JMZ

Thanks, I will do this.

[Illanair]

Just keep in mind that this stops the message from stopping you and your dwarves from doing stupid things like standing in a collapsing cavern without you noticing and pausing the game to make em skedaddle.

[Naryar]

Actually the dfliquids solution is the best one, cause it will stop the spam and up your FPS.

[BuGGaTon]

I had an issue where both the magma sea AND a level -3 cavern lake were pouring into HFS (they were only a layer apart) causing a large quantity of cavern collapses (but not constant, which made it even more annoying whilst I wasn't sure what was going on...).