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[Dreggon]

Does anyone have a link to this picture? I've been looking for it and I can't seem to find it.

Also, on a map with a volcano and no water aside from rain, how can I build my fortress inside the volcano? Do I need to drain it and then build inside it, or is there a way to cast obsidian inside the volcano without it caving in? If I can't cast directly into the volcano I'll drain it into my embark after building a really big wall to keep the magma in (so my fortress will be surrounded by a megavolcano).

[Da Spadger]

This?

[albatross]

Draining a volcano sounds awesome no matter how you look at it. Do it. Flood the world with magma. The trees and bushes will grow back... I think.

[Heliman]

Actually... I think that they won't burn at all.

hrmmm, dammit this may call for

[albatross]

I tried to flood the world with magma once in 40d. The magma burned everything in its path, and basically it started a fire that spread across the land, but it didn't cross z-levels, so it stopped at the edge of a slope. Wish I had taken screenshots, but I was too busy laughing like a maniac.

[Dreggon]

This?

Actually... I think that they won't burn at all.

hrmmm, dammit this may call for

Yes, thank you! That is EXACTLY what I was looking for.
Now on a dark background for comparison...


I'm also trying to work out a way to drain the volcano 'safely', i.e. the dwarf lives (and doesn't catch fire, or run into the volcano, or decide to hold a !!party!!, or challenge a magma man to a duel, or run away from a gazelle who followed him into the tunnel, or decide that the open floodgate is actually closed and he can't pass, or that he has nowhere he particularly needs to be).

[Dreggon]

Quoting this again so I can see it on the light background

[jei]

I tried to flood the world with magma once in 40d. The magma burned everything in its path, and basically it started a fire that spread across the land, but it didn't cross z-levels, so it stopped at the edge of a slope. Wish I had taken screenshots, but I was too busy laughing like a maniac.

Sadly in 2010 I have been unable to start any fires. What gives?

[deoxys413]

I've done this before, it's very time consuming, but enough room is given for a nice self-susaining tower.

1. What you do run water over the top layer and cast obsidian.
2. Dig out this obsidian and fill in the new -1 Z-level layer with water
3. Collapse a platform built and hanging over the crater
4. run water in to fill any missed holes and then go to step 2

Alternately, fill the crater with 2/7 and have the miners dig it out manually I found out that at some point (I think with 7/7) collapsing the platform as mentioned will obsidianize multiple layers.

[Urist Imiknorris]

There was a gif of a dwarf murdering another dwarf and drawing E=mc on the floor with said dwarf's (unidentified limb), then dropping the body part and standing on the = and making it read E☺mc².