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[Grytorm]

Hi, I am a rather kind of new player and had an idea, but I need to ask some questions
1) Is their any way to turn off cave ins?
2) Do magma tubes refill with time
3) Can I build out into open air?

The reason why I am asking is I had the idea to build a lot of my fort around the edges of the magma tube, but it is rather difficult to do so because I have to unpause it so often. I already have a tunnel but I hadn't come up with the plan till now.

[Urist Imiknorris]

1) Yes. Go into [DF directory]\data\init\d_init.txt and change [CAVEINS:YES] to [CAVEINS:NO].*
2) Yes.
3) Yes.

*If your main issue with caveins is announcement spam, you could instead go into announcements.txt (in the same folder) and remove the :P:R from the cavern collapse announcement: [CAVE_COLLAPSE:A_D:D_D:P:R] -> [CAVE_COLLAPSE:A_D:D_D]

[Grytorm]

Thankyou

[Frelus]

I fear I know where this is going....
Keep up the good work

[Grytorm]

Somewhere FUN and filled with giant cave spiders (Not !!FUN!! though, I plan on am getting rid of the magma. Although I seem to have lost a few dwarfs to a Giant Cave Spider)

[thegoatgod_pan]

Somewhere FUN and filled with giant cave spiders (Not !!FUN!! though, I plan on am getting rid of the magma. Although I seem to have lost a few dwarfs to a Giant Cave Spider)

This.

It warms your heart.  Especially the plan to get "rid of the magma"

[Grytorm]

Sadly it comes back and kills the frame rate. But my method has safely drained seventeen layers.

[krenshala]

Based on some testing with a pump stack variant in a recent thread, the lag appears to mainly be with checking temperature changes as the magma enters/leaves new tiles.  Of course there may be other reasons the magma is causing you framerate issues, so my info may not actually be helpful.

[Grytorm]

I'm not moving the magma I'm getting rid of it. I dug a tunnel from a stream to my magma pool.

[krenshala]

The magma is moving.  As tiles change state between warm (next to magma) and cool (not next to magma) the game has to recalculate temps to see if it melts/freezes.  Those calculations cause the lag.  Well, from what I've seen folks post it is the cause, anyway.  A good test is to turn off temperature and see if your framerates improve.  Of course there are probably drawbacks to this I'm not aware of ...