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You don't need to fill the mold up with 7/7 magma to make obsidian. All you need is 2/7, so best to get mixed 2/7 and 3/7 magma and then pour water on it. You could still reasonably get your 100x100 obsidian block.

I thought you needed at least 4/7 for it to solidify.  Hmm.

Also, the problem I was having was more that the magma was evaporating faster than I could pump it in with the 100x100 setup - I barely kept it from evaporating in the 100x50 zone.  However, I'm working on a design to flood the 100x50 area, then use some secondary engineering to expand it to the 100x100 zone.  Something about expendable raising drawbridges, I think. 21 mechanisms and a lot of glass blocks.

Now, where to get that stone when I can't break ground...........................
Secondary Obsidian Farm construction approved, designed.  Construction begins now. 

I've been looking around, but I can't seem to find any Mac OS X ports of the utility programs, excepting Dwarf Foreman.

Does anyone know where to find such program ports, or if they even exist at this time?

Also - please, no comments on 'get a pc' or such.  It's nothing but a troll.

Loops like that for me all the time.

The last two survivors were trapped on the second floor with the magma glass furnaces, which I still had set for the infinite glass block cycle (collect sand [repeat], make green glass block [repeat]).

Those jobs loop back even if canceled.

Here it is.

Just so you know, there are 10 pics, and they're pretty big even after cropping a bit.

I had to scale back on size due to there not being enough magma (there's never enough, but too little for this, specifically).

I had intended to create a 100x100 tower of 'natural' obsidian by creating glass forms, flooding a level with magma, flooding the next level with water, raising the forms, and repeating.

At this time, I am creating a 100x50 tower.  The first level has just been filled with magma, and I am now preparing it to receive the cooling shockwave of water from a nearby brook (where the water will drain to when I'm done).

So, yes.  I currently possess a ground-level 100x50 reservoir at 7/7 magma in every tile.

For kicks, I'm going to copy the world and have the walls deconstructed in the copy.  See what happens.

if anyone wants to tell me how to get pics up to show you without having to get an account somewhere else, I'd be thrilled to get some screenshots posted for you all.

Raccoonman merchants to open the doors, orc snipers to catch the runaways, and orc wrestlers to tear the rest limb from limb.

I swear, I'm thinking of making these things weaker so I have a chance when they outnumber me 3 to 1, but then that would remove the challenge of it.

So, any ideas on how to more quickly clean up after the siege ends, assuming I'm still alive?  I'm sick of sitting here for 10 minutes micromanaging because everyone's too busy picking up orcish iron to do anything else.