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[Lord Snow]

http://img254.imageshack.us/img254/4091/unbenanntry5.png

I just flooded a room with Magma to fire the Magma Forge and Smelter above.
I didn't read up about Magma Proof Materials first, tho - and now i'm getting spams about cleaning up and cancelling as dwarves try to rush in and clean up the molten rock salt within.

How can i stop the spam?
Will the molten stuff eventually turn into Magma?

[ February 08, 2008: Message edited by: Lord Snow ]

[Kagus]

Eh, turn off the "cleaning" job for every dwarf in the fort.  Not much else you can do, so far as I know.

[Lord Snow]

That would make them ignore any other cleaning job :|

mh... i dont even have bauxite, or at least not yet    

Edit: Last wishes granted, dwarves burned alive trying to "clean up". Yea sure.
I'm surprised to find their god had no business with Suicide.

[ February 08, 2008: Message edited by: Lord Snow ]

[Skanky]

Must... clean... melted... rocks.... arrrghhh!!!

[Yobgod]

I find that something similar to the following works well in this sort of scenario:

code:

              .->to magma source
          XXXX.XXXX
XXXXXXXXX XX.....XX
X._.X._.X XX.X.X.XX
X...X...X XXXX.XXXX
X...X...X XXXX.XXXX
XX.XXX.XX XXXXOXXXX
....>.... ....<....

The 'O' is a door that you then lock and forbid, or (if you prefer) a floodgate that you close after the dwarves clear out but before you release the lava.

I suspect that having no valid path to the melting objects helps keep the clean jobs down.

[Lord Snow]

quote:Originally posted by Yobgod:
<STRONG>I find that something similar to the following works well in this sort of scenario:

code:

              .->to magma source
          XXXX.XXXX
XXXXXXXXX XX.....XX
X._.X._.X XX.X.X.XX
X...X...X XXXX.XXXX
X...X...X XXXX.XXXX
XX.XXX.XX XXXXOXXXX
....>.... ....<....

The 'O' is a door that you then lock and forbid, or (if you prefer) a floodgate that you close after the dwarves clear out but before you release the lava.

I suspect that having no valid path to the melting objects helps keep the clean jobs down.</STRONG>

The room was locked shut by a Floodgate with no other entrance... except jumping down from above to swim through magma perhaps. they didnt even try that, though.

[pushy]

quote:Originally posted by Yobgod:
<STRONG>I suspect that having no valid path to the melting objects helps keep the clean jobs down.</STRONG>

Nah, the dwarves just moan about not being able to find a valid path to complete their cleaning job.

I'm surprised nobody else mentioned it, but yes, molten objects will eventually melt completely in the magma. There are few materials that will survive exposure to magma (iron, steel and bauxite are the ones you'll most commonly come across, though off the top of my head I think adamantine is another, and graphite will burst into flames but won't melt)

[Sorcerer]

cant you just forbid all the melted rocks?