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Author Topic: Natural walls and non-magma safe materials  (Read 5808 times)

Zeebie

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Natural walls and non-magma safe materials
« on: February 03, 2012, 01:13:49 pm »
How does magma interact with non-magma-safe natural walls and channels?  The wiki seems to specify that built objects need to be magma safe, but what about natural stuff?  Can I carve a channel through gneiss for magma without worry? If not, what happens to those natural walls?
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Re: Natural walls and non-magma safe materials
« Reply #1 on: February 03, 2012, 01:16:16 pm »
Constructions - including walls natural and built by you - are immune to magma, no matter what they are made from.  You can build walls out of wood and use them to channel magma safely.  Buildings (like furniture or workshops or trade depots) can be destroyed by magma, but constructions can't.  The one exception is natural ice walls, which will melt.
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Re: Natural walls and non-magma safe materials
« Reply #2 on: February 03, 2012, 02:10:49 pm »
Wait - does that mean that natural walls count as constructions? You just blew my mind.
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Re: Natural walls and non-magma safe materials
« Reply #3 on: February 03, 2012, 02:21:19 pm »
No, but it means that for the purposes of how the game handles them natural walls/floors function the same as constructions. In fact they are actually better then constructions since they can be smoothed/engraved and constructions can not.
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