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Author Topic: Magma Pipe Reshaping  (Read 1420 times)

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Re: Magma Pipe Reshaping
« Reply #15 on: November 19, 2009, 01:37:30 pm »

Pump stacks from the bottom of your magma supply are the only real way to get vast quantities quickly, but there is a large drain on your supply. Building a massive, hollow chamber for excess magma storage when you're NOT using it is Fun too :D

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Re: Magma Pipe Reshaping
« Reply #16 on: November 19, 2009, 01:40:48 pm »

Why pumps, why floodgates?
Find a lesser layer, with larger under it, dig a tunnel on both layers, dig it right as below (view from the side):

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MMMMMMMMMMMMM████████████X█████████████████-1
MMMMMMMMMMMMM████████████X█████████████████-2
MMMMMMMMMMMM████*>_______<______███████████-3
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM█X█_smelters_layer█████████-4
MMMMMMMMMMMMMM███<magma flows██████████████-5
MMMMMMMMMMMMM██████████████████████████████-6
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMM████████████████████████████-7

X and <> - are stairs.
█ - stone
M - magma

When everything is digged out as the planned, you channel the "*" marked tile and the magam flows down.
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