So: Active volcano inside a fortress inside an active volcano.
Somebody here had that as a signature. Thought it'd make a good project. And it's my first magma-pumping project. And I've got iron and bauxite.
Planning: bauxite/iron screwpumps, 7 parallel per level, from -5 to +3. From +3 it immediately goes down again to -5, through a hallway, and up again into a cistern (pumped magma is supposed to be pressurised), with an overflow somewhere on the map (no chasm, I'll just flood the world and let it evaporate).
When the volcano is half-empty, start building into it horizontally at -4. Make two entrances: one for dwarves, one for magma. Inside I'll build a tower, and a 1x1 pipe in the middle of the tower. This pipe will run to +2, allowing the pressure to overflow the magma there, run along the walls of the tower, back into the main volcano.
Desired Result: a tower inside a volcano, which can only be entered from -4. Add a few bedrooms and prettification, windows and such. The top of the tower spews forth actual magma.
Current status: pumps built up to lvl 0 (that's 7*5 = 35 pumps already), pumptower and magmachannels are ready, megacisternpyramid is done (needs underground space), defeated a dragon, killed all nobles, made power-generator using a lot of waterwheels. I hope it works because the power it generates changes all the time, it seems bugged somehow if you have 1000+ power.
Also, letting the volcano refill on its own probably takes a looong time. I'm thinking about storing the magma somewhere instead of letting it evaporate.
Ideas to make this any more dwarvenly than it already is?
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