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[The Chemist]

I have my base consist of 5 octagonal columns that were joined by squares, a tesselating pattern. Now i'm near a volcano and have sand, so i've been making lots of glass, and almost all the doors are green glass. See, i've got all the columns seperated by doors, i was htinking this incase of waterflooding it would be cool swimming around or walking around and seeing the otherside.

well, it works just as well in case of magma too. While expanding the magma plumbing i accidentally broke through the wall in one of the chambers. but, thanks to my over zealous doormanship I lost 2 of 30 sectors as opposed to the whole base.

Glass doors are magma proof, right?

[Christes]

Now how will you get the magma out?

[Eatnobles4breakfast]

Apparently green glass is right on the line between magma safe-ness and disaster (hilarity)
If you had a door on the ground, it might burn up, but i'm prety sure anything built of green glass is magma safe...

[Assassinfox]

Closed doors of ANY material are magma safe.  It's when you open them that the fun starts.

[The Chemist]

Now how will you get the magma out?

later, when i've got things more stabilized i'll try pumping water down the relevent holes and solidify, otherwise i'll just have little reminders that say "WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DIGGING? DID YOU CHECK? NO! NO YOU DIDN'T! everybody benefits from those, right?

[The Chemist]

How is one supposed to get water into these relavent places, should i channel out all the floors above it?

[userpay]

How is one supposed to get water into these relavent places, should i channel out all the floors above it?

Screw pumps would work I think.

[The Chemist]

can you poor water onto magma fast enough to turn it into obsidian without a full on flow? just by bucket brigade?

[snelg]

can you poor water onto magma fast enough to turn it into obsidian without a full on flow? just by bucket brigade?

You don't need much water at all to solidify magma to obsidian. I think (but are not entirely sure) that even 1/7 of water would be enough. And that's what the buckets contain right? should work wonders as long as you can get it into the magma. 

[The Chemist]

well what i had in mind was i'd use bucket bridage to plug the relevant sections so that i'm not trying to remmove the entire magma supply, then i let if flow out into a huge area where it evaporates.

[Drunken]

No I tried buckets, they dont work.

[Aranna]

If i remember correctly, if the magma is at 7/7 you need to channel 2z above, as it will count it as full of liquid.