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[WoobMonkey]

This thread, by WanderingKid, should be helpful for you.

[doublestrafe]

Wouldn't it be simpler to have a chamber that fills with magma but has grates for a floor so it can drain without leaving 1/7s around? That would accomplish the same as the obsidian thing but without the water and without any complicated track shenanigans. You'd need a glass pump and a magma-safe mechanism for whatever you use for the drain, but that's about it. Heck, if you only need a few you could do it with a pump and a non-magma-safe bridge--it fills up, then the bridge melts and the magma drains off somewhere else.

[GavJ]

edit - mixed up threads.

Thanks for the design ideas. Floor grates sound pretty easy. Maybe not for a magma machine gun, but simpler for just filling up furnace fuel cells.

[GavJ]

After messing around a bit, this worked really well:

One floodgate letting magma into a 1x1, 3 tall stairwell.
Dwarves have access to the stairs the next z level up
There's a 1x1 retracting magma safe bridge partway down the cart sits on.
At the bottom is a grate with a small evaporation chamber.

place cart, open gate, let fill. close floodgate.
Open bridge, cart falls down, so does magma, magma keeps falling into evap chamber though.
Dwarves simply walk down from the top and grab the cart.
Close the bridge and wait for evaporation, start again.

Could probably just have used the magma sea again to absorb the mgma instead of evaporation to make it faster, just didn't think of that.





Requires magma safe rock, but I've never been on an embark anywhere that didn't have magma safe rock. Also 3 iron for the cart.