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[nogoodnames]

Rock tends to release clouds of boiling magma during cave ins. This is presumably caused by the huge transfer of kinetic energy generating enough heat to vapourize the rock to some degree. In my experience it's mostly harmless, acting the same as normal cave in dust.

[Durandal]

Actually, any ground or rock just shows up as 'boiling' when it caves in and turns to dust... That confused me too, when I first tested my diplomat-launcher!

Was waiting when something like that would show up haha. I've lurked here for awhile while playing this wondrous game. But this was my first experience that made me go "Wat" so I figured I might as well post something about it 

[jaxy15]

It's the rapture! IT'S HAPPENING!

[Angel Of Death]

It's the rapture! IT'S HAPPENING!

Urist McCamping was right! The world really is ending on the 25th obsidian!

[jaxy15]

It's the rapture! IT'S HAPPENING!

Urist McCamping was right! The world really is ending on the 25th obsidian!

Why did the captain of the guard deliver a beating to Urist McCamping for not making those pig iron items?!

[Doro]

If there were a magma pipe just below the camp, would that cause enough heat to... cause outlawsplosion?

[Inspiration]

I think the fire and magma could also be a displacement thing. I remember a thread a while back where someone dropped a giant pillar of rock into the magma sea, and the pillar displaced an equal volume of magma up to where it was.

[Eric Blank]

Exactly. And that is called a magma piston, used to power magma forges nearer the surface than the magma sea without a pump stack, although I find such a thing extremely inefficient.

Magma being launched into the air in adventure mode occurs occasionally when these weird terrain-deformed worlds cause cave-ins and magma is present underneath. The cave-in itself really does look and act like a very slow explosion.

[Inspiration]

Oh, how I want to see one. I've never personally had to use a magma piston, generally embark with a volcano, for easy access to !!FUN!!

[freeformschooler]

But now that I think about it... the OP survive. He can fly. Which means that, since the earth collapsed, he could have (or one of us could) get a good look at the deformed world!

[Alkhemia]

Grabbed the map and made a fort and it seem the magma sea is flowing in to HFS

[UristMcHuman]

I fast-travel to the area next to the camp and head on in. The game seemingly locks up for around three minutes. Then a BLEEDING status greets me, and the area is filled with smoke. After the game chugs for a few moments, I get announcements telling me how basically I was caught in boiling magma and all the ground !!BURST!! and !!BOILED!!. 

I traveled to another area, and...yeah. Same deal.

Maybe you stepped on the wrong tile. Or, you set off a crude, early landmine of some sort.

[NewSheoth]

This is a very dwarfy thread title right here.

And yeah, it's the epic bug that once got referred to as 'Armok's stomach', when stuff caves in randomly and massively and sometimes magma happens as well. If you can fly, fly around and enjoy the carnage below.

[Putnam]

Ah, yes, I had this recently.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/13790475/HFS.png

[professorhelios]

Well, there is definitely something fun going on here as it makes my DF instance go kablooey when things go kablooey in game.