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[vertinox]

Ok so I'm digging a bit too deep and I found plenty of candy to be had, but unfortunately I ran out of candy to dig and the only ore left is completely submerged in lava. Lava is above it, lava is beside it on all sides. How the heck to I get to it?

[Yovatsap]

Pour water as needed
Mine obsidian (carefully)
Mine the candy

Profit

[vertinox]

How to do you pour water again?

I guess I would start at the top and dig a channel about the lava? How to I get the water into the hole?

[Yovatsap]

That's where dwarf architecture/engineering comes in. Be creative. Heck, you can pour water with buckets for all I care. Do what you feel needs to be done.

Brotip: If you're gonna channel a river or something onto the magma sea, make sure you have floodgates set up so you don't flood your fort or something.

Edit: Just found this in the wiki: Note that magma located above semi-molten rock will be listed as a Magma Flow and cannot be cooled into Obsidian.

[nappy]

wait!.. what? candy?? wth is candy? never heard of a rock by that name.

nappy-curious

[eugene]

Its actually the opposite of rare if you dig deep. Nevertheless, praise the miners if they find it.

[Corai]

wait!.. what? candy?? wth is candy? never heard of a rock by that name.

nappy-curious

Bluemetal.


Demon's wall.


THE ONLY THING KEEPING HFS FROM COMING UP AND EATING YOU.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Adamanite.

[NecroRebel]

That's where dwarf architecture/engineering comes in. Be creative. Heck, you can pour water with buckets for all I care. Do what you feel needs to be done.

If you use buckets, you have to make the pond zone on the level above the level above the magma, so there's the pond, a whole level of open space, then the magma. Otherwise, no obsidian forms; the magma tile simply empties, without anything in it, and magma then promptly rushes in from around to refill the place.

Edit: Just found this in the wiki: Note that magma located above semi-molten rock will be listed as a Magma Flow and cannot be cooled into Obsidian.

This is true, so for the last z-level of the magma sea (possibly more, depending on the layout of the magma flow), you'll have to use pumps. A solid wall of pumps can draw fluid out of a tile faster than it can flow in as long as the pumps have someplace to pump the fluid to, so several such solid walls can actually make a hole in an ocean. This is known as the Moses Effect. By pumping an area dry of magma, you can then mine the sweet candy, construct walls on the magma flows (magma flows without magma on them are walkable safely), or generally do whatever you want with the place.

[i2amroy]

Bluemetal.

Demon's wall.

THE ONLY THING KEEPING HFS FROM COMING UP AND EATING YOU.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

Adamanite.

Personally if I was going to spoiler one of those names I would rather spoiler "Demon's wall". I mean "raw adamantine" is literally in the stone economic list, and adamantine shows up in the stockpile lists, so it isn't really a spoiler to know it's name. Now "Demon's wall" on the other hand, points largely towards it's purpose and what happens if you dig too much of it. Personally I never really got where the whole "candy" thing popped up anyways. It's not the name of the metal that is the spoiler after all, it's what happens if you mine too much of it. "Clowns" I can understand, since the name itself is a spoiler, but personally I try to just say adamantine instead of candy since it's less confusing and isn't even a spoiler.