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[Dunamisdeos]

So some soil in and about my main entrance has become suddenly hot. Magma-hot. For no readily apparant reason.

I noticed when some woodchoppin dwarves started having their feet melt away if they walked anywhere near the zlevels above. There is no magma here or anywhere near. To solve this, I turned of temperature and had the affected squares dug out of the map. There was no magma, and the hot soil is gone, so theres no more problems......... but still, any idea what I broke?

::EDIT::
Until I get a better reason, the official hypothesis is that either
A: Magma cancer in the soil, or
B: My steel blade traps are just so powerful that they heat up the earth with the excess awesome they give off when murdering gobbos.

[peskyninja]

You used advanced world generation?

[Dunamisdeos]

Oh. Gee, y'kno what? I don't actually remember. Damn.

I do, on and off as a general rule, though  And I've been playing this particuar world for awhile now, haven't run
into this before.

::EDIT::
Just sprang up somewhere else, too. 'Bout 10 zblocks away to the left. Fire just started in the middle of grassy hills. Beekeeper melted. It's like Dante's Inferno (not the book, the old 90's movie about volcanoes and people get boiled and oh whatever never mind).

[Loud Whispers]

You're world max temperature is high then.

[Dunamisdeos]

It seems to be an affected square, about 10x10 in area.

Im mining it out. Only 1 z level. Whenever anyone steps on it, steam shoots up, a la magma. Seems that once the block is gone the problem is fixed.

::EDIT::
The spots with trees within the square are unaffected.

::EDIT::
I turned temperature back on, assuming the problem was "solved" and the dwarves that had previously mined out the square (and one cat) exploded into flames, despite now being elsewhere entirely. Also, now the next z-level down has a square about 3x3 affected by magma cancer. That was two legendary miners T_T

[Lordraymond]

Armok is angry at you

Sacrifice your migrants to him (and a healthy dose of elves) to appease his wrath and perhaps he will allow you to live.

[Dunamisdeos]

I agree. It is clearly a curse from Armok.

Do you think pasting migrants at the bottom of a pit will do, or should I set up a magma pit in keeping with his
apparant theme?

[Lordraymond]

I agree. It is clearly a curse from Armok.

Do you think pasting migrants at the bottom of a pit will do, or should I set up a magma pit in keeping with his
apparant theme?

Throw them into the magma-cancer hole. That's the obvious pockmark in reality which Armok created to punish you, so even if he doesn't take mercy on you maybe throwing enough soap makers in there will plug the hole to His domain up.

[Dunamisdeos]

It is done. The magma cancer hole now has a goblin, troll, and elf storage facility next to it as well. If at first you don't succeed, repetition will eventually please Armok. Or something like that.

[Wayward Device]

Are you using any mods (esp. Genesis)? Has a dragon been by lately? Have you submerged any stuff (like steel equipment) in magma?

[Dunamisdeos]

It IS possible something got touched by magma during pump stack creation. But no, there are no mods active. I'm playin' vanilla. Joking aside, I'm going to assume somebody decided to eff around with my fort when I was out of the room.

[Babylon]

It IS possible something got touched by magma during pump stack creation. But no, there are no mods active. I'm playin' vanilla. Joking aside, I'm going to assume somebody decided to eff around with my fort when I was out of the room.

heh,  I first read that as ELF around with your fortress and was wondering when elves gained the ability to superheat soil.

[Loud Whispers]

It IS possible something got touched by magma during pump stack creation. But no, there are no mods active. I'm playin' vanilla. Joking aside, I'm going to assume somebody decided to eff around with my fort when I was out of the room.

Seriously, world gen max temperatures are high enough to make stone warm, and melt the flesh off Dorfs. Even vaporize everything.

[Dunamisdeos]

Well, damn. Time to move underground until the world cools, I guess. Then our civilization will emerge to reclaim Tar Alu, the Land of Wind from the disfigured fire-elves and heat-men, who have evolved during the millenia to survive on a planet as hot as a pancake griddle. But the dwarves will have developed strage, otherworldly powers from their eons-long hibernation, which will serve them well in the inevitable wars for dominance of the planet's last remaining resources. After the dust settles, the dwarves will have no other option but to construct spacecraft out of slade and rock nuts, and spread out to the stars in search of resource-rich solar systems to plunder. They will conquer inhabited planets, use every natural resource, then move on to the next planet. They will be like spaceborne locusts, a plague, a scourge.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0116629/

Sequel, anyone?