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[Centigrade]

nt

[Thisfox]

....I wish....

I've never successfully transported magma anywhere. Anyone have a simple failsafe method?

(What does nt stand for?)

[GhostDwemer]

NT stands for "no text." It means the title of the post conveys all the author intended to convey, and the text was not left blank accidentally. Also, nope. No magma in buckets.

[Thisfox]

Oh. That actually makes sense, although "no text" would be a little more transparent.

Perhaps Centigrade is thinking of That Other Game. Which does indeed allow bucketting of magma.

All I seem to be capable of doing right now is setting pets on fire... And they're surprisingly hard to put out.

[wierd]

Hmm...

There was a thread some years back, about a !!WELL!!. Sadly, I dont have a link for it.

The thread maker wanted to answer this very question, and constructed a well using magma safe blocks, using an artefact rope, and a nethercap bucket. 

The dwarves would drop the bucket into the magma, the bucket would fill with the magma, and the rope would catch on fire. However, the dwarves would cancel the job before the bucket could be pulled back up, because the rope was on fire.

The name of the thread was "Building a !!WELL!!" or something like that. Sadly, neither google nor the SMF search function knows how to search for this term properly.


Edit

Nevermind, I found the thread. My memory is getting dodgy it seems. 

He set the rope one fire to keep the well clean of contaminants, but ended up with melted dwarves.  I just remember it was a well with magma involved. My bad. 

[Rotten_Karma]

For small amounts of magma, just put a few magma safe minecarts in a stockpile at the bottom of your obsidian caster.  When you flood the caster with magma, if the amount of magma in a tile exceeds 6/7 it will automaticly fill the mine cart.  Then just obsidian cast the area, and dig the carts out. 

To dump the mine cart put a dumping trackstop next to the tile that you want your magma in and assign the mine cart containing the magma to a single stop route on that trackstop.  The dwarves will then get the minecart out of the stockpile and drag the minecart to the location, which may take a while depending on how far it is. 

Magma safe minecarts are Adamantine, Steel, Iron, and Nickle.  Mine carts can carry 2/7 liquid.  Magma Forges and Funaces take 4/7 depth to operate.   

[Cyroth]

Nevermind, I found the thread. My memory is getting dodgy it seems. 

He set the rope one fire to keep the well clean of contaminants, but ended up with melted dwarves.  I just remember it was a well with magma involved. My bad.

Ah, Sphalerite. One of the most amazing people ever created by dwarfkind. Just look at the threads he created.
Wish he was still around, his science was the best.