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tinsoldier

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River + Volcano?
« on: October 14, 2008, 03:21:45 pm »
If I redirect my river (well.. brook anyways) into an open magma pipe...  What do I get?  I thought it'd be easy to search for but I didn't see anything... oddly.

The obsidian skyscraper thread got me thinking...
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Re: River + Volcano?
« Reply #1 on: October 14, 2008, 03:27:24 pm »
I think you will get obsidsidian which will crust around the point where they touch

If you drop it straight on you will probably get an "A section of the cavern has collapsed" message followed by a chunk of obsidian falling stright through the bottom of the tube
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Re: River + Volcano?
« Reply #2 on: October 14, 2008, 03:29:24 pm »
ahh I think you're right, I guess I do remember reading something along those lines.  Oh well, not as exciting as I hoped.
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Re: River + Volcano?
« Reply #3 on: October 14, 2008, 03:35:03 pm »
At the very least, its a good way to cap off the pipe and stop the imps from setting your world on fire.
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Re: River + Volcano?
« Reply #4 on: October 14, 2008, 03:38:32 pm »
Quote from: Zorgn on October 14, 2008, 03:35:03 pm
At the very least, its a good way to cap off the pipe and stop the imps from setting your world on fire.

Sadly they're all dead and no new ones have spawned (don't know if they do respawn but they haven't nevertheless)
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Re: River + Volcano?
« Reply #5 on: October 14, 2008, 03:43:57 pm »
Quote from: tinsoldier on October 14, 2008, 03:38:32 pm
Sadly they're all dead and no new ones have spawned (don't know if they do respawn but they haven't nevertheless)

Hmm...

Pump it all out into a magma-tower, let more fill the pipe. Repeat a few times untill you have a massive amount of magma, then flood the world at your next siege. Bonus points if you have a tower rising out of the lava.

Or, if you did it like said earlier, and dumped it right on the middle of the pipe, you could possibly fill the pipe with obsidian and carve a badass tower. You'd need a mold over the pipe to keep it all from going solid, but fun could be had.
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Re: River + Volcano?
« Reply #6 on: October 14, 2008, 06:52:12 pm »
Quote from: tinsoldier on October 14, 2008, 03:38:32 pm
Quote from: Zorgn on October 14, 2008, 03:35:03 pm
At the very least, its a good way to cap off the pipe and stop the imps from setting your world on fire.

Sadly they're all dead and no new ones have spawned (don't know if they do respawn but they haven't nevertheless)

had the same in my current fortress just  6 imps as i found the pipe, after killing them no new ones showed up
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Re: River + Volcano?
« Reply #7 on: October 14, 2008, 08:56:51 pm »
Imps, magma men, etc don't respawn now.  Unless you reclaim or revisit in adventurer.
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