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[GaxkangtheUnbound]

So, I was carving fortifications for my magma forge and smelter, when all of a sudden, I discover the magma sea. Y'know, just obsidian and magma. Well, apparently marble somehow got into a layer at the magma sea. Marble isn't even magma proof!
Discuss.

[fivex]

Perfectly normal.

[Man of Paper]

Such is life in Dwarf Fortress.

[Aramco]

Perfectly Normal does not equal Life in dwarf fortress.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

Well, seeing as Marble IS metamorphic, it could somehow survive the magma.

[Kanddak]

It would make no sense for obsidian to occur near the magma sea. Obsidian is an igneous extrusive rock, which occurs where magma flows out onto the surface and cools rapidly. You should expect to see igneous intrusive and metamorphic rocks down there.

[Aramco]

So, I was carving fortifications for my magma forge and smelter, when all of a sudden, I discover the magma sea. Y'know, just obsidian and magma. Well, apparently marble somehow got into a layer at the magma sea. Marble isn't even magma proof!
Discuss.

I don't think digging one tile out of the wall of a magma pipe should cause you to find the magma sea.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

So, I was carving fortifications for my magma forge and smelter, when all of a sudden, I discover the magma sea. Y'know, just obsidian and magma. Well, apparently marble somehow got into a layer at the magma sea. Marble isn't even magma proof!
Discuss.

I don't think digging one tile out of the wall of a magma pipe should cause you to find the magma sea.

It wasn't a magma pipe.
It was a volcano.

[Aramco]

So, I was carving fortifications for my magma forge and smelter, when all of a sudden, I discover the magma sea. Y'know, just obsidian and magma. Well, apparently marble somehow got into a layer at the magma sea. Marble isn't even magma proof!
Discuss.

I don't think digging one tile out of the wall of a magma pipe should cause you to find the magma sea.

It wasn't a magma pipe.
It was a volcano.

Same thing. That's what I meant anyway.

[GaxkangtheUnbound]

Well, I dug pretty low.
I had a brook to tap from, and I didn't feel like digging a bigass mine shaft.

[Aramco]

Well, I dug pretty low.
I had a brook to tap from, and I didn't feel like digging a bigass mine shaft.

If I dig out one tile on the highest level of a volcano, which is on the top of a mountain, It discovers the magma sea for me.

[Fayceless]

I have an area of Microcline in my magma sea.  I know that stuff's not magma-safe.

[breadbocks]

I have an area of Microcline in my magma sea.  I know that stuff's not magma-safe.

You sure it isn't blue raspberry cotton candy?

[Internet Kraken]

I have an area of Microcline in my magma sea.  I know that stuff's not magma-safe.

You sure it isn't blue raspberry cotton candy?

I have some microline down there to.

[Vercingetorix]

I imagine since non-magma safe objects won't melt unless submerged in magma, these rock outcroppings won't either since they're technically not submerged either.  In a practical sense, wtf, but in a gameplay sense it's plausible.