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[Quietust]

It must be made clear that there is no such thing as "increasing" pressure in Dwarf Fortress.

Pressure is not a property of bodies of liquid - it is a procedure applied by certain methods of fluid movement. This means that if there's no room for a fluid to move, no "pressure" will be apparent; once there's room, however, then the rules of pressure will be applied normally according to the fluid you're dealing with (which, for magma, means that screw pumps will 'push' magma into the nearest possible squares connected to the pump's output tile).

[Loud Whispers]

OBJECTION!

If you want to get legal, pressure in this case refers to the game mechanics employed by DF to simulate water pressure...

Yeah.

[Mrhappyface]

Thanks.  My giant goatse cannon now shoots lava out like explosive diarhhea instead of anal leakage.

[Loud Whispers]

_{Thanks.  My giant goatse cannon now shoots lava out like explosive diarhhea instead of anal leakage.}

ABANDON THREAD

[nerdyboy321123]

Is there any limit to the "pressure" could you theoretically pump 1000 tile's worth of magma into one square? Then watch mayhem as you open the floodgate to release it?

[Urist Da Vinci]

Is there any limit to the "pressure" could you theoretically pump 1000 tile's worth of magma into one square? Then watch mayhem as you open the floodgate to release it?

It doesn't work that way. You can't actually store more than 7/7 magma in a single tile.

If you had 1000 pumps connected in parallel to a magma cannon, you could theoretically discharge 1000 tiles worth of magma in a single blast. That amount of magma would cover a 34 tile diameter flat circle in 7/7 deep magma, or if fired in midair would create a 15 tile diameter hemisphere of 7/7 magma.