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[mek42]

Here is a screen shot of my little experiment to build on top of the volcano.  There are three magma kilns, the one closest to the entrance has one constructed floor tile, the middle magma kiln has all 8 floor tiles constructed from quartzite blocks and the furthest magma kiln rests on top of a wood block floor.  Near the entrance to the kiln area you can see an earthenware statue I installed to commemorate the event.

I used version 43.05.  If there is interest, I can (try to) provide the save, but I did this just as a quick test - I left about 300-some points on the table and have done nothing regarding booze or food yet.

https://www.flickr.com/photos/mek42/shares/g01qX6

[Fleeting Frames]

Heh. What's really fun is when murky pool is night next to the caldera, though - I've gotten setup for magma forges, smelters, glassworks, irrigated floor for farming, obsidian floor for dining hall and fire imps coming out, setting everything on fire and ending my fortress with just 1 channel designation on embark.

[Roofless]

Emm... I'm at a loss here. Is building on top of a volcano "an awesome feat of dwarfness"?
Cause' I have an entire fort suspended over a volcano in mid-air, with production floor on the magma surface level.

Magma crabs are bothered me from time to time, but a "skirt" of 1-2 floor tiles around the forges and furnaces makes dwarves nearly invisible to them.

[Salmeuk]

The ability to build directly above the caldera is one of the best reasons to embark on a volcano. Most iron is found near the surface, and when the magma is readily available from embark it makes for some fast weaponsmithing.

[BlackBronze]

Emm... I'm at a loss here. Is building on top of a volcano "an awesome feat of dwarfness"?
Cause' I have an entire fort suspended over a volcano in mid-air, with production floor on the magma surface level.

Magma crabs are bothered me from time to time, but a "skirt" of 1-2 floor tiles around the forges and furnaces makes dwarves nearly invisible to them.

same. I think I've ran up to 6 volcano forts before, all of which ended due to unforeseen consequences. Volcanoes are like my go-to plan for when I want to do something slightly different than a typical mountain fortress but don't want to spend the energy to actually come up with something cool.

[Grim Portent]

Emm... I'm at a loss here. Is building on top of a volcano "an awesome feat of dwarfness"?
Cause' I have an entire fort suspended over a volcano in mid-air, with production floor on the magma surface level.

Magma crabs are bothered me from time to time, but a "skirt" of 1-2 floor tiles around the forges and furnaces makes dwarves nearly invisible to them.

same. I think I've ran up to 6 volcano forts before, all of which ended due to unforeseen consequences. Volcanoes are like my go-to plan for when I want to do something slightly different than a typical mountain fortress but don't want to spend the energy to actually come up with something cool.

A few years back I tried to start a succession fort game with a Human Vampires theme. The thread voted to settle on an evil volcano and build a vampire castle atop the volcano and a little hamlet for the mortals around it.

Things did not work out well. Between the zombie ravens, zombie settlers, the huskifying gas clouds that would occasionally drift by or, for some reason, burst out the mouth of the volcano and the small number of people who lived long enough to get their blood drank it was impossible to maintain things for more than a few moments. Some progress was being made until the vampires got husked and made it impossible to do anything because they could rip any living thing nearby into meaty chunks barehanded.

I need to try that again with the new version sometime. 

[BlackBronze]

Emm... I'm at a loss here. Is building on top of a volcano "an awesome feat of dwarfness"?
Cause' I have an entire fort suspended over a volcano in mid-air, with production floor on the magma surface level.

Magma crabs are bothered me from time to time, but a "skirt" of 1-2 floor tiles around the forges and furnaces makes dwarves nearly invisible to them.

same. I think I've ran up to 6 volcano forts before, all of which ended due to unforeseen consequences. Volcanoes are like my go-to plan for when I want to do something slightly different than a typical mountain fortress but don't want to spend the energy to actually come up with something cool.

A few years back I tried to start a succession fort game with a Human Vampires theme. The thread voted to settle on an evil volcano and build a vampire castle atop the volcano and a little hamlet for the mortals around it.

Things did not work out well. Between the zombie ravens, zombie settlers, the huskifying gas clouds that would occasionally drift by or, for some reason, burst out the mouth of the volcano and the small number of people who lived long enough to get their blood drank it was impossible to maintain things for more than a few moments. Some progress was being made until the vampires got husked and made it impossible to do anything because they could rip any living thing nearby into meaty chunks barehanded.

I need to try that again with the new version sometime. 

Now THAT sounds like fun. I ought to find this thread sometime.

[Grim Portent]

Emm... I'm at a loss here. Is building on top of a volcano "an awesome feat of dwarfness"?
Cause' I have an entire fort suspended over a volcano in mid-air, with production floor on the magma surface level.

Magma crabs are bothered me from time to time, but a "skirt" of 1-2 floor tiles around the forges and furnaces makes dwarves nearly invisible to them.

same. I think I've ran up to 6 volcano forts before, all of which ended due to unforeseen consequences. Volcanoes are like my go-to plan for when I want to do something slightly different than a typical mountain fortress but don't want to spend the energy to actually come up with something cool.

A few years back I tried to start a succession fort game with a Human Vampires theme. The thread voted to settle on an evil volcano and build a vampire castle atop the volcano and a little hamlet for the mortals around it.

Things did not work out well. Between the zombie ravens, zombie settlers, the huskifying gas clouds that would occasionally drift by or, for some reason, burst out the mouth of the volcano and the small number of people who lived long enough to get their blood drank it was impossible to maintain things for more than a few moments. Some progress was being made until the vampires got husked and made it impossible to do anything because they could rip any living thing nearby into meaty chunks barehanded.

I need to try that again with the new version sometime. 

Now THAT sounds like fun. I ought to find this thread sometime.

http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=134000.0

Was feeling nostalgic anyway so I went looking for it.