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My fortress has a demon fort with SIXTEEN PAGES of undead amphibian/reptile/serpent/ant men. O.o

I'm... just going to leave this picture here...

well, interestingly enough, while pond-ing the magma directly doesn't seem to produce the magma, pond-ing the space next to the magma and allowing the overflow to... overflow produces the block just fine. This will be an arduous filling process...

For whatever reason, I've only had humans come in year 3 onwards. Elves show up in year 2 in my games, and dwarves are there from the first autumn of year 1. (Since embark, clearly).

This isn't helpful at all, but I really found that picture funny.

Okay just kidding I'll offer some advice, you're gonna need to redirect the magma to drop from above, along with the water probably, this is how all obsidian structures should be built really.

It was dropping from above, actually. (The tunnels you see in that picture are for the seamless layer below). I think what happened is that since my FPS plummeted to near 20 (I should be so lucky, right, ha!) and I chickened out of filling all 4096 with 2/7 water, evaporation happened, and the lava had already enclosed the space before more water could flow in.

So how can I *fix* it? I wasn't having any luck with bucket-powered obsidian manufacturing earlier, but I don't know if that's due to dwarven laziness or actual game mechanics preventing it.

How do I fix this?



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I was trying to make an obsidian cube (64x64x8!), but I ran into trouble making the second layer (as pictured). Is there anyway to easily fix this and restore uniformity to my cube?

Quote from: veok on October 05, 2010, 07:02:51 am

Just wanted to pop in here with a bug report of sorts. In the .12 and .14 versions of the graphics set at least (Man, I'm never going to keep up to date with the rate Toady keeps pumping out releases...) doors made out of Olivine use the Masterwork/Gem symbol instead of the door symbol, and doors made out of most wood likewise don't resemble doors (though not a recognizable symbol to me).

Is this a bug? Necessary quirk in the way the set is implemented?

It's a bug with the engine, no solution has been found short of not making olivine doors.
I literally have no control over which tile is used for any doors, let alone rock specific doors.
Sorry.

Ah, well. Good to know. I discovered that nickel doors are suitably impressive, and *also* are magmasafe. It's win-win!

Can dwarven water reactors also be powered... by magma? (Assuming nethercap waterwheels)


Also, is there a good way to re-mud the caverns of an abandoned and reclaimed fort?