Hi, hopefully this is in the right place- it's my first post on the forums, though I've been playing Dwarf Fortress off and on for 2ish years.
Has anyone had success using lava to make a land bridge to the extent it actually changes the world map? I couldn't find anything by googling around.
I've tried this twice but haven't been able to make it work. Both times I've used a volcano in an iceberg located on a coast. I had one working fort I lost the save to, that was actually on the coast. I lost the save right after I (kinda) figured out how to use pumps to make the lava move faster though an overly complicated tunnel/pipe system I had to keep it from evaporating. The second time was today, and I just sent a bunch of miners to poke holes in a volcano. I didn't anticipate that snowstorm + lava= giant ledge. I know how to disable autopause, but not the zoom to location that goes with it so I ended up abandoning the fort to see what two weeks would change. When I reclaimed it the only difference was animal skeletons littering the lava slope. I just …extinguished... my second batch of miners and everyone's dead (a first for me!).
My og fort made a lot more sense w attempting a land bridge bc there was a peninsula that I could connect to for trading one water tile away (by the world map). Today's fort was just a land bridge to nothing (and p awkwardly positioned w the coast). In retrospect I have no idea why I choose an iceberg again...
TLDR: pls help me destroy the side of a volcano so it creates a new landmass