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[Iados]

Hi everybody, I am playing this game for about a week, and i want to find some magma for building a good fortress... but i dont know how!

Some tips for dooming improving my fortress?

[Xenos]

Just dig down.    If you dont embark on a volcano, then if you dig deep enough you will hit magma (unless the map is glitched)

[Marthnn]

And if your fortress isn't doomed improved enough to your tastes... keep digging!

[Iados]

thanks for the quick reply!

let's start digging...

[Iados]

no magma but i found a very big cavern. and a cave crocodile.
R.I.P Urist McAxedwarf and Urist McStupidSwordsdwarfWithoutSword

[NecroRebel]

Under default worldgen settings, there's the surface, then some rock, then a big cavern, then more rock, then another big cavern, then yet more rock, a third big cavern, still more rock, and then magma. Magma can be quite a ways down there. Sometimes you get (un)lucky and manage to dig down through a pillar or somesuch in the caverns, so you miss finding them despite going past them, but (depending on worldgen settings) that can be pretty unlikely.

[Xenos]

and sometimes the caverns are so tiny that they compose 60 tiles of space.  On one z-level.  But basically, go down to the very very bottom level of your map, go up about 10 levels, and thats about where you should hit magma (use a staircase when magma hunting so you dont channel a dorf into it.  lol.)

[abadidea]

and sometimes the caverns are so tiny that they compose 60 tiles of space.  On one z-level.  But basically, go down to the very very bottom level of your map, go up about 10 levels, and thats about where you should hit magma (use a staircase when magma hunting so you dont channel a dorf into it.  lol.)

They should throw up a "warm stone located" warning before they open the barrel of fun.

[Xenos]

and sometimes the caverns are so tiny that they compose 60 tiles of space.  On one z-level.  But basically, go down to the very very bottom level of your map, go up about 10 levels, and thats about where you should hit magma (use a staircase when magma hunting so you dont channel a dorf into it.  lol.)

They should throw up a "warm stone located" warning before they open the barrel of fun.

True but there is the chance of digging down into a cavern with a magma pool/pipe under your dwarf.