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[blazeboy91]

How come whenever I try to find a volcano in an embark site where it says a volcano is, an image of a volcano is nowhere to be seen.

[Urist Imiknorris]

It's the ≈. If that doesn't show up for some reason, check the elevation map. The highest spot is usually the volcano.

[blazeboy91]

Thank you good sir, may the dorfiness be with you.

[Triaxx2]

I've also occasionally found Volcanoes that don't actually breach the surface. This is not only handy, it also makes pumping out of them much easier.

[Iton Ibrukrithzam]

How come whenever I try to find a volcano in an embark site where it says a volcano is, an image of a volcano is nowhere to be seen.

If you want the magma, but volcanoes prove unreliable, try doing an advanced parameter embark and having only one cavern level.  I started doing this for FPS reasons, but I find it results in a magma sea ~15-30 levels down, which is quite nice.

[Putnam]

It's the ≈. If that doesn't show up for some reason, check the elevation map. The highest spot is usually the volcano.

No, it's the ^.

[Urist Imiknorris]

On the zoomed-out map, yes it is. On the site map, it's a ≈.

[blazeboy91]

Q2.) Can things climb through volcanoes?

[Urist Imiknorris]

If they can safely swim in magma, yes. Otherwise, they'll be burned to a crisp.

[blazeboy91]

So wall grate  for my magma forge and floor above it?

[FuzzyZergling]

If you build your magma forge so that the solid part of the workshop (darker green when placing) blocks off the magma hole, then nothing can get through.

[Triaxx2]

Unless you build it at the top of the volcano, in which case you'll want to floor over the volcano.

[h45hc0d3]

Unless you build it at the top of the volcano, in which case you'll want to floor over the volcano.

I actually have a minor question regarding that. Is it possible to use a pond designation and a minor construction up two stories, or a water pump, to form an obsidian cap over the top by working in from the edge where it would be supported? Or would that simply cause an unending stream of caveins?

[FuzzyZergling]

Unless you build it at the top of the volcano, in which case you'll want to floor over the volcano.

I actually have a minor question regarding that. Is it possible to use a pond designation and a minor construction up two stories, or a water pump, to form an obsidian cap over the top by working in from the edge where it would be supported? Or would that simply cause an unending stream of caveins?

If the obsidian forms next to an existing wall it will be supported.

[NonconsensualSurgery]

So wall grate  for my magma forge and floor above it?

Nothing can attack an impassable building tile that's directly above it. When you place a magma-using building you want to be really sure the hole down to magma is completely covered by a dark green (impassible) square of the building placement rectangle. This will block all access from below in case anything strange ever swims up from the depths.

The floor grates are handy though. You can build clown-resistant plumbing with them.