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[Asymptote]

Yah I have NFI what happened with the melted microcline. The magma would sometimes 'retreat' a square and leave some microcline behind... showed up as just 'microcline' as the dwarves where hauling it, except it had the liquid-like texture. It's possible that I accidently marked it for dumping, improbable tho... definitely didnt do it on purpose.

So spoke to soon on the tantrum front  One them darn kids tantrumed and deconstructed the major bridge into the fortress while standing on it. He and 5 others fell 7 - 8zs onto the mountainside. Two fell into the moat instead and drowned, one kid bled out, two dwarves and tanty McTantrum are still alive but hospitalised... tanty has two broken legs.

pump stack mining: 40%
pump stack pumps: 8%... not so much work as I thought it was going to be (dont know if I'm doing it right yet tho =D might be a massive failure)

[Eric Blank]

bwahahaha! another fine example of a generic tantrum spiral destroying an entire fortress piece by piece

[moki]

OK, so sit rep.
- 16 dwarves killed pretty much instantly in a massive alcohol fireball. I had no idea that could happen... deadly. Altho, somehow not a single of my 70+ children bought it 
- food and alcohol stores still OK, altho lost all my legendary lavish meals. Luckily lots of plants & alcohol also stored down near the farms/stills.
- tantruming beginning now... my dwarves are generally pretty happy so I dont expect toooo much... broken chairs etc. Luckily? the captain of the guard was flambe'd in the explosion so no brutal reprisals
- pump stack completion status: 0% 

So... everything went better than expected? 

When building magma stacks, I usually dig out the whole thing, dump all the stones, construct the pumps one by one and then seal the whole thing with walls. It takes some time and micromanagement, but after accidentally collapsing 30 pumps and spilling magma into my water reactors, I'm rather cautious...

[Putnam]

Tell me true, oh forum, is it worth it?

Is pope Catholic?

Interpreted as "is popé catholic"

And the answer is hell no

which means that this post is wrong

[UltraValican]

I've never used magma either, I burn wood just to piss of the elves, even when I have coal.

[Lordraymond]

I've never used magma either, I burn wood just to piss of the elves, even when I have coal.

Now, if you could burn the wood USING magma, it would be truly Dworfy

[Triaxx2]

Personally, I like to skip the middle man and burn Elves with magma, but to each his own death trap.

[Loud Whispers]

Magma traps can be excused, but please tell me you've at least built a magma doomsday weapon?

[My favorite was dropping my entire fortress into magma, preserving it FOR THE AGES]

[Sting_Auer]

*reads OP*

GASP! My word!

* Sting_Auer slaps with a glove.

[Moonshadow101]

I consider pump stacks to be, in general, a senselessly tedious thing to build and operate. They're stupid.

Embark on a Volcano. That's what I do whenever I want my fortress to be surrounded by hollow walls filled with magma. Put a floodgate in every few spaces, link them up to a series of levers so you can pick what area you want to burn, and enjoy.

[UltraValican]

Magma traps can be excused, but please tell me you've at least built a magma doomsday weapon?

[My favorite was dropping my entire fortress into magma, preserving it FOR THE AGES]

Nope
I use Cold Steel, to get stuff done.

[Loud Whispers]

Magma traps can be excused, but please tell me you've at least built a magma doomsday weapon?

[My favorite was dropping my entire fortress into magma, preserving it FOR THE AGES]

Nope
I use Cold Steel, to get stuff done.

This is why Dwarf fortress needs a liquid nitrogen sea somewhere, maybe in the sky (I know.).

[proxn_punkd]

This is why Dwarf fortress needs a liquid nitrogen sea somewhere, maybe in the sky (I know.).

Dwarf Fortress, in SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAACE!

[Triaxx2]

I enjoy playing with pump stacks honestly. For no reason other than because I can.

As for rising long distances, I find that if I work them out so that ever 10 levels, there's a small reservoir, of say an 8x8 for an 80z stack, it means I can keep FPS by only running one or two chunks of pump stack at a time.

[Loud Whispers]

I tend to shirk away from large scale magma movements, for the sake of FPS.
But I've found an advantage to above ground forts is Asthetics - Underground pipes simply add to the splendour