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I want to make an obsidian gun that can collide magma blobs with water blobs at the edge of the map so that I can wall off the whole thing with obsidian, closer than I could do with actual walls.

I've never heard of this producing anything but steam, but that's an interesting experiment.

Can I collect the two kinds of blobs in one cart?

I can't see how.  Once you submerge the cart, you fill it with 833 magma or water (about 2/7 worth).  Once it's filled, it won't take more in.

Also, is there any way to launch them diagonally?

Yes.  Once they're skidding you can use sideways rollers to 'aim' the carts.  Roughly a 45 degree arc was attainable by people who did much more science than I did.  Unfortunately I can't find the thread, but I'm 95% sure it was Urist Da Vinci and cartloads of spears... and puppies.  However he posts a LOT so going through his history is like reading through a dictionary if you're not into modding.   This thread, however, has a lot of information on flight and aim choices:  http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=126669.msg4286300#msg4286300

In short, though, you're not going to get the precision you want.  Think 'shotgun', not 'sniper rifle'.

After I wall the map off, I'd like to make some kind of deal that periodically forms obsidian in the air and then lets it fall on the map, so the surface is shelled with caveins every so often.

I believe you're the first person looking to randomly cave in the surface.  I'm not sure how it could be done, personally.

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It continues to amaze me that people keep using Norton. Anything but that steaming pile of...

It's cheap, it was the only one that could get rid of some ransomware I had at one point, and I don't have that many issues with it.  Sorry, I disagree with your opinion of the product.

FurnaceClans 27 is up.  I get the OMG back and the tree farm is finally flooded out.

http://youtu.be/7PxoV6i8284

@enizer:
RE: Magnetite Blobs: I've dug out all the ones I have found, and I use vein digging, which will get multiple Z's involved.  There's probably a lot more but I am also leary of FPS death, so it'll happen slowly.

For balancing out the magma, I'd need a pretty significant system to pull it off without cheating.  The 3/4 flow isn't too bad, honestly.

High/Low Boots are civ specific, similar to trousers vs. dresses.  A civ won't have knowledge of all types of things to make, but will have at least one in each area to wear goods.  My guess is you got low boots.

The corpse causes the bad thoughts, not the ghost.  When/If you find the body, the dwarf will care.

pssst. It was me.

Mainly the PMs were to keep from flooding the thread with theories of what you could do 

LOL. This thread has found itself a design for safe multilevel aquifer piercing, a discussion of FB traps, and who knows what else in forgetting offhand. Flood away!

FurnaceClans 26 is up.

http://youtu.be/A3GN6DPFsrg

Bummer.  How about an in-flight minecart directly from the west?  Sort of a Dukes-of-Hazarding paincart hopping over the magma trench and slamming into him from the side?  It would be risky as hell, but checking the latest video it looks like you might have enough room.

Next episode is coming along.  I broke the stalemate via additional torpedo and now have other problems.  It's a bit short at the moment after editing though so I'll need to gameplay a bit and see what else I'm planning on doing.  The fort got distracted with a tree-farm water route adjustment.

Brief update, since there's not going to be an episode for a bit at this rate.

The tree farm water delivery system is floored up and walled off the drain, and is now re-flooding the floor.

The eternal war of the unburnable vs. the endless fireball continues.  It's a standoff.  The Cyclops that had died nearby and was working his way into the discussion is AWOL, ending my hopes for a tie breaker.  I'm hoping something on the surface somewhere eventually decides to wander down and help out the guy on fire.  I haven't thought my way out of the problem yet.  Not in a way that's actually useful, anyway.  The dude is fireproof.  I'm getting to the point where I may flood the entire thing out (that's a LOT of passageway to fill up) to the ceiling and just drown his butt.  My concern is that may force him to swim INTO the fortress, instead of out of it.  I can't seal up the machinery that drives the magma carts without breaking the machinery.

That would be moot anyway if he got up on the DWR and busted it up anyway, but I need to keep it in mind.  The magma delivery system would be my last ditch defense if that happened.  I don't believe my military could contain this FB.

The rest of my dwarves are mostly busy pulling up what tin I'd already mined out way down near the magma sea, so that's a long walk with a wheelbarrow.

Basically, status quo.  Nothing worth film time, unfortunately, unless it's a 1 minute video. XD