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[King DZA]

As my fortress grows larger, and it becomes more and more difficult to keep a decent supply of logs, I've decided to finally incorporate magma into my forging industry. This will be my first time playing around with the stuff, so it should be most interesting, and lucky for me, there is a pool of it about 20 z-levels below.

However, I've been torn between whether or not I should put the effort into building a pump stack. Should I choose to, it will be my first time playing around with pumps as well. There is a nice pillar of rock that I could dig to the magma pool through, so placement isn't a problem.
What worries me is, I've heard that pump stacks significantly drop FPS, which is something I'm having trouble with already(hovers right below 20, if I'm lucky).

I would prefer to move the magma at least 10 levels up, but if the FPS drop is really that bad, I'd be willing to simply dig out a nice hole and set up shop in the depths. So tell me, would a pump stack be worth it?

[Patchy]

Install an off switch on your pumpstack, as the fps drain is only really bad when actively pumping the magma. Or you can use Necrorebels better pumpstack design. Though honestly 20 z-lvls isn't that bad, I'd just build my forges down there and have the smiths get their exercise by walking up and down the flight of stairs. Of course you could also just give them some rooms and a dining hall there too.

[i2amroy]

Yeah people tend to forget that just because something is down a couple flights of stairs it's really the same as horizontal distance. So going down 10 z-levels is exactly the same as going horizontally 10 tiles and isn't actually that big of a deal.