English is not my native language. Forgive me if your !!eyes!! start bleeding. In the name of Dwarven progress, you are free to grammar police me. Also i suck at writing. So forgive the xXxPostxXxOkay, so some preliminary results.
First, it took me 4 years, doing only that. On Masterwork DF i must say, wich makes digging a lot harder, but still.
Also, i was on an island with basically limitless everything.
On a "standard" embark, with kobold, ambush, FB and stuffs, but with migrants on and a good coffin industry, i guess it still takes years at least.
So i don't see it as a lolembark, but as a true
megaproject, wich should come
after a temporary semi-above-ground fort has been build and secured.
Second, it is doable, i partially made it.
Securing a single floor was easy, i just had to flood the volcano with water, then channel/dig it.
Securing a second floor required to cast a first floor, then channel it, then cast again.
The problem is that it soon turn to a fire vs water war, as magma replenish faster than water flood the volcano, wich leads to the formation of obsidian walls, wich must be taken down by commando miners. As you imagine, the loss rate is high...
It's tedious and painful. A work-around would be to wall sectors, channel, then cast it zone by zone. Wich would require a team of carpenters to redirect the flux of water.
Alternatively, a shitload of pumps on one side, and a shitload of pumps the other side. But then you have the problem of a building a 3x3 pumpstack 30-60 zlvel high... And that's if you have an ocean/river/water in the first caverns.
Third.
I forget what i wanted to say. It may or may not come back to me later.
So i'm skipping to Plan B.
As suggested in this post, i will dig a hole in the cavern and let the Volcano leak by the bottom.
I hope that:
-It will leak fast enough
-I won't kill everyone. Wich the probability are quite high.
Since i broke this volcano and am lazy, i will thrash this save and restart on a vanilla DF.***
Swonnr withdraw from society...
Swonnr sketches pictures of a Volcano.
Swonnr sketches pictures of pumps.
Swonnr sketches pictures of a Fortress.
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