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Moltar

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How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« on: September 13, 2010, 04:37:45 pm »
Yeah so i have a volcano thats about 20 z levels above my fort.
I have no idea how to mine the side of it without killing a miner. Is there some way of doing this without melting a good miner or should i just wait for some migrants to come and sacrifice one?
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Re: How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« Reply #1 on: September 13, 2010, 04:39:16 pm »
Just have a place for your miner to escape the channel. Magma doesn't quite flow as fast as a dwarf moves.
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Re: How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« Reply #2 on: September 13, 2010, 05:00:54 pm »
Use the smooth stone -> fortification method to breach the volcano.

I got this method from the wiki, I think, so you should find information about it there.
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Re: How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« Reply #3 on: September 13, 2010, 05:04:53 pm »
Magma isn't naturally under pressure. Pumps can pressurise it, but otherwise the magma will flow at the exact same speed whetehr you tapped the top or the bottom of that volcano.
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Re: How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« Reply #4 on: September 13, 2010, 05:09:35 pm »
I find that carving fortifications is easiest. Just prepare the area the magma will flood into and make sure there is an exit the dwarf can escape from. Carve the fortifications and the dwarf should be able to outrun the magma. If not, he may get a little melted but he should be okay. Magma is not instantly lethal anymore.
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Re: How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« Reply #5 on: September 13, 2010, 07:07:01 pm »
Just make sure you provide an exit from the magma-channel in such a way that your brave stone-detailer can out-run the magma;  Don't put the emergency exit right next to your carving-site.
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Re: How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« Reply #6 on: September 13, 2010, 11:51:43 pm »
Use immigrant labour. You don't need all your copper picks, right?
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Re: How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2010, 05:41:44 am »
Quote from: Moltar on September 13, 2010, 04:37:45 pm
Yeah so i have a volcano thats about 20 z levels above my fort.
I have no idea how to mine the side of it without killing a miner. Is there some way of doing this without melting a good miner or should i just wait for some migrants to come and sacrifice one?

Clearly, DF is in need of some explosives technology to help in such situations. Something to destroy 1 cube.
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Re: How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2010, 05:48:55 am »
Like Urist McDynamite?
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Re: How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« Reply #9 on: September 14, 2010, 02:48:06 pm »
SUCCESS!
Urist McMiner managed to bolt out of the flooding hallway, and past the obsidian door before his tiny little legs melted.

Yeah some more advanced mining techniques would be welcome.
Alchemy workshops creating gunpowder/tnt maybe?
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Re: How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« Reply #10 on: September 14, 2010, 03:25:54 pm »
Usually, you can breach it and run, but there is a safer method, if the volcano doesn't have a straight edge. Just find a place where the magma tube is narrower on the z-level above your corridor, and channel out the tile which is between the lava tube and the corridor.
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Re: How to successfully mine a +20zlvl volcano (w/o too much fun)
« Reply #11 on: September 14, 2010, 03:36:28 pm »
Quote from: petersohn on September 14, 2010, 03:25:54 pm
Usually, you can breach it and run, but there is a safer method, if the volcano doesn't have a straight edge. Just find a place where the magma tube is narrower on the z-level above your corridor, and channel out the tile which is between the lava tube and the corridor.

That only works if you are using a version prior to 31.XX.
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