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[Draco18s]

Anyone know if the bad mood stacks, and if so: how far? Can he be made insane by overloading it, or will he hit a ceiling and possibly come back from miserable before it's too late?

Yes.  All the way.  And no.

[Simmura McCrea]

Just let him engrave a few dozen/hundred masterpieces and he won't care if you melt a heap.

[The Architect]

So it's some sort of %? Or do you mean I should drive him to "doesn't care about anything anymore" before I do it? That is a valid option, as I'd rather have a somewhat unproductive master engraver than an insane one.

[Shinziril]

Art defacement is a bad thought with a value of -1000 / number of masterworks made (taken from the wiki).  Even if the numbers are wrong, the principle is the same- if your craftsman has made so many masterworks that making one is "Tuesday" to him, rather than a once-in-a-lifetime event, he won't care too badly about his masterworks getting melted. 

[The Architect]

Excellent. Now I wonder what will happen to that equation depending on existing masterworks? If a dwarf made 2000 masterwork engravings (not a difficult or unlikely event) and I flood the fort with magma a little at a time, will he receive a worse bad thought with each batch of meltings as his existing number of masterworks declines?

[Draco18s]

Excellent. Now I wonder what will happen to that equation depending on existing masterworks? If a dwarf made 2000 masterwork engravings (not a difficult or unlikely event) and I flood the fort with magma a little at a time, will he receive a worse bad thought with each batch of meltings as his existing number of masterworks declines?

Probably.

[wagawaga]

dealing with the stone-between-layers glitch

what is that? never heard of it. Actually, i accidentally drained a magma pool thinking it was a pipe with a similar method, and I don't recall having any glitches.

[The Architect]

A glitch can occur where an object exists within a tile where there is technically no space for it to exist. It has something to do with objects existing between layers, such as 'on top of a statue, but out of reach from both above and below.' I had a baby wash up there ones, almost died before I realized it was starving/dehydrated and had the statue deconstructed. The baby fell without harm, thankfully, and we were able to give it some wine to stop the dehydration.

This happened when I channeled out water-occupied floor tiles with stone on them, letting the water drop into the magma beneath along with the stone and leaving the stone embedded/on top of the new obsidian walls (on the same level as the walls) without being destroyed. It doesn't happen consistently, but frequently. Basically I have a bunch of stones on a nothing background displayed where clean walls should be. The walls are there stopping the magma, but I have to look at what appears to be open floor with stones sitting on it.