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[Eric Blank]

Woops I'm illiterate sorry.

When I have to channel up I like to put grates to walk on underneath that way a miner that turns around to dig another tile I designate as high priority a ways away doesn't have to outrun the lava, as long as they step off the grate the drain below will take it all and they can shambles away safely to go dig out that other tile. 90% of the time, anyway. I'll admit, sometimes they sit there with "no job" and blinking "?" Just long enough to catch on fire, but channeling and grating over the tiles adjacent to where they're about to dig a ramp or channel does reduce the casualty rate significantly.

Also, I wasn't aware of fortifications slowing anything down. I often dump the magma out from an overhanging bridge though or use pumps, so the initial flooding is quite sudden even if fortifications are slowing it down behind the reservoir.

[Thisfox]

Somewhere, I have a "number of days since last lava disaster" WHS sign which has a pretty high number on it I guess.

Also, I wasn't aware of fortifications slowing anything down. I often dump the magma out from an overhanging bridge though or use pumps, so the initial flooding is quite sudden even if fortifications are slowing it down behind the reservoir.

I could have put any number of fortifications behind the floodgate, and it wouldn't have made much of a difference, it was the non-full-of-burning-rock section that was violated. I actually since have come up with a simple solution: I have an inner floodgate, open, behind an outer floodgate that is closed. Lava goes all the way to the outer floodgate, but if someone deconstructs the outer floodgate, I have an inner one (protected by molten rock) I can close later. So long as everything is made magma-proof, no issues. And of course, do this BEFORE the whole thing gets attacked. Not that it's likely to happen again. I'll definitely try the double floodgate next volcano fort though.

[Bralbaard]

Somewhere, I have a "number of days since last lava disaster" WHS sign which has a pretty high number on it I guess.

My counter has a zero!