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[Spitemaster]

So... The method described on the wiki works.  But I'm digging through a whole bunch of levels of SMR, no problem, only one loss.  How?  It's simple, you see.

If the dwarf digging the channel is standing on the square where he's digging it (only possible if he can't dig it from anywhere else) he'll end up on the unusable upward ramp.  Below the magma flow square.  I just dug through 35 levels of SMR this way, at the cost of one dwarf.

Oddly, no welcoming party spawned.  Might have something to do with the eternally collapsing Eerie glowing pit, but...

[Crazy Cow]

I'm fairly certain that welcoming parties only spawn when you punch into a hollow tube; in theory, at least, that's the only way you're supposed to get down there anyway.

[Zammer990]

I'm fairly certain that welcoming parties only spawn when you punch into a hollow tube; in theory, at least, that's the only way you're supposed to get down there anyway.

Digging through a whole filled tube takes you there as well, it's just hollow tubes are more !!FUN!!

[Maolagin]

I'm fairly certain that welcoming parties only spawn when you punch into a hollow tube; in theory, at least, that's the only way you're supposed to get down there anyway.

Just checked that theory,

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this is false.

Okay, did a little more experimentation:

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The clown car spawns under whichever hollow tube would have triggered it. This could well be outside the region of HFS that your miner can see. What's more, when I tried it, the party ignored my miner and instead headed straight up the tube, even though that one had never been punctured up above. So now I'm using impossible slade-mining designations to guide my miner around the map trying to keep her out of sight of any !!FUN!! and looking up all the hollow spires to see how high they go.

[Spitemaster]

In that case, I think it was because there were no tubes on the map.  It was quite small...