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[Shelegelah]

So, here's the deal... I am currently in a volcano fort. At the top of the volcano I built a platform out into the middle of the caldera, hanging over the magma tube, and designated it a pit. This, I thought, would be the most fitting way to sacrifice to Aluriel, the dwarven god of volcanoes that so many of my dwarves worship.

I tested it out with kittens, and something disturbing happened.

They floated atop the magma, completely unharmed. They survive to this day, just sitting there... staring.

So what gives? Is magma bugged when you fall down a z-level onto it?

[ext0l]

Clearly, you must mix with water to make obsidian cats.

When I pitted animals into volcanoes, they all fell through the lava unharmed and burned up when the hit the SMR

[Zaerosz]

Yeah, I've seen this too. Pitted a mule foal into my volcano a while ago. All I got was 'His head is melted.' 'The Stray Mule Foal (Tame) has bled to death.' Corpse vanishes - presumably down the volcano.

[Shelegelah]

The weird thing is that my first kitten died no problem, but the last two just started floating, with no limb damage whatsoever. I dropped another kitten in and it landed on top of one of the other two, causing it to instantly die, as it should.

Presumably it pushed it down into the next z-level of magma (if that's how it works), but that implies that the cats are perfectly capable of swimming in magma.

Strange.

And yet... How to weaponize them...

[iyaerP]

And yet... How to weaponize them...

Bauxite bridges that launch the magma-cats at your enemies?

[Max White]

Throw caged goblins in.
Throw hydra in.
Watch BEST DARN FIGHT ARENA BATTLE EVER!!! Loser gets instantly destroyed in magma.

[Namfuak]

I think the reason that things go all the way down to the bottom before dying is that magma and water are simply existing in empty space rather than true liquids with actual form.  So, falling through a liquid is treated like falling through empty space.  This is why things go straight to the SMR at the bottom of the magma sea instead of hitting the top and melting/burning there.

I don't know what the deal with your cats is though, so I can't help you.

[Shelegelah]

The mystery of the magmacats... They must have perfected some kind of limited levitation devices as a self-preservation failsafe... I must tap into this.

[Max White]

Just like rayman...

[Mahou Shoujo]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-rise_syndrome

[Krath]

I for one welcome our new magma-surfing kitten overlords.

[Fishbulb]

Is there any chance you strapped pieces of buttered toast to your cats' backs and then, like, forgot about it?

[Shelegelah]

Here's a nifty little update for you...

I reloaded my fortress and they all fell into the caldera as one. The delicious stench of roasting kitten filled  my halls for weeks.

We may never know what caused these particular kittens to manifest such strange and mysterious powers, but they are at peace, now. May the magma crabs be merciful on whatever remains of them.

(As a side note, are magma crabs difficult to kill?)

[druid91]

This happened to me with puppies in 40d, well sort of. the fell down landed on the outskirts of the volcano. Eventually I let them out out of "OK if you are just going to sit there I'm going to let you live, you've earned it." they get dumped into my animal stockpile. and I think it was when I next loaded the game they all spontaneously combusted, killing everything in the animal pit.

That made me very angry.

[Jacob/Lee]

On-load glitches/bugs are getting common for me, on my "hermit fortress" (which was actually the starting 7) I had struck all three caverns and the demonic fortress, so every time I load, in the exact same area of the second cavern, a piece of floor would be randomly generated, then it would come crashing down into the sea of water below. This happened every time I loaded.