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[numerobis]

Enjoy this custom 5x5 embark. Steps away from a 100+-z adamantium spire. A short commute to an equally-tall magma pipe. Heavily-forested temperate-to-cool plateau with a beautiful waterfall crashing down to 13z below. Built on an aquifered clay and soil base with iron and flux bedrock foundation. Near all the civilizations.

Serious inquiries only.

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=5016

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dogs are OK - wooof
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[ASCIt]

Tell me, how many layers are there to this aquifer?

[numerobis]

I haven't gotten to it yet; the magma pipe is draining out, which rather slows things down.  It's not entirely clear it matters: given the topography, you can just walk down to the lower river and be in metamorphic layers already.

[Caevin]

I appreciate this, it sounds nice. However, I must ask a burning question: How will this help me get some action?

[Hannibal Barcalounger]

Sorry if this is a dumb question but what's going on with the magma pipe? Will it eventually refill to its original level?

[tivec]

I took a look at this one using some ground penetrating radar techniques (dfhack!), and it seems that the magma sea is draining down to the clowns. I suppose solidifying the magma sea might be an option to remedy the lag. Bring on the water, alright? (You could also use dfliquids to work that magic)

Tiv

[numerobis]

I appreciate this, it sounds nice. However, I must ask a burning question: How will this help me get some action?

That's between you and... you.

Sorry if this is a dumb question but what's going on with the magma pipe? Will it eventually refill to its original level?

I guessed what tivec is confirming, that it's draining out the bottom of the world.  The magma refills, but not fast enough to keep up with the drain rate.

I don't actually remember the physics of magma pipes: do they refill from the top at a fixed altitude, or do they refill from 1z above the current top of the magma?  If the former, then you could build a floor and get your own personal self-refilling magma pool.

[Crioca]

Usually it's a fairly simple matter to simply wall off the holes in the sea with DFliquids by spawning obsidian walls. Then use it to refill the pipes to where they should be.

[Victuz]

So the REALLY burning question is.
With a bigass waterfall, an adamantine spire a leaking magma pipe and a 5x5 embark. How high is your fps? 12?

[numerobis]

20-30 FPS on my box.  Sometimes for a few frames it drops to about 15.

The burning question for me is: are the clowns coming?

[numerobis]

Science reveals: the magma pipe refills from its own top.  I let the magma fall below the fortress, then pumped a bunch of water into the pipe.  After a few dozen cave-ins, the pipe is stopped up.  But it isn't refilling above the stopper: it's refilling below it.

No matter; I siphoned off enough magma to power a mighty industry.

Oh, and tivec: the pipe is emptying into hell, or just into the caverns?  Seems to be the latter.  Dwarven technology is so advanced it seems like magic: when you drop water into magma it creates a deep magma probe that, if it isn't connected to anything, explores all the way down to the SMR.  I see caverns but no clowns.

FPS is in the mid-30s now, one game-year in.  It freezes for a frame or two when the magma opens up a new level, then goes up to speed again.  The FPS has been increasing as the magma drains, so it should be pretty good in another year or so when the pipe stops draining.