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peterix

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Magma farming
« on: March 12, 2009, 01:27:37 pm »
I started on a glacier and I have magma. The idea is to heat the farm plot by running magma under it. Will it speed up plant growth? Can I grow outdoor plants this way? Is it possible to build magma heated greenhouses?

I'll try it anyway, but I figured I could ask before - in case this doesn't work yet :)
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #1 on: March 12, 2009, 01:50:40 pm »
As far as I know, temperature does not effect farms. Current wiki about temperature is empty, and the old wiki has some nifty experiments.
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #2 on: March 12, 2009, 02:39:15 pm »
You need magma to melt ice to get water, that's as much as I know.

High temperatures do make outdoor water evaporate. Supposedly dwarves can get frostbite but again, no idea about facts.
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #3 on: March 12, 2009, 02:43:00 pm »
With such a title, I'm disappointed with the contents.

Wheat fields make wheat, cotton fields cotton, magma farms...?
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #4 on: March 12, 2009, 02:46:50 pm »
Obsidian, yeah.
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #5 on: March 12, 2009, 02:48:25 pm »
no its the art to make magma  ;)
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #6 on: March 12, 2009, 02:50:38 pm »
Magma also can be 'farmed' for: Dead nobles, burnt cats, burnt goblins, burnt elves, burnt humans, burnt dwarves, pressure plates, moats, volcanoes, fuck the world levers and HUEG pyramids of glass.
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #7 on: March 12, 2009, 03:00:54 pm »
And fire imps. Thousands of them.

It's time to EXPERIMENT!
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #8 on: March 12, 2009, 05:30:44 pm »
Quote from: peterix on March 12, 2009, 03:00:54 pm
And fire imps. Thousands of them.

It's time to EXPERIMENT!

Odd how "Experiment" in DF is often synonymous with "Raging inferno of death and dispair"
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #9 on: March 12, 2009, 05:53:40 pm »
Quote from: Smitehappy on March 12, 2009, 05:30:44 pm
Odd how "Experiment" in DF is often synonymous with "Raging inferno of death and dispair"

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Odd how "Experiment" in DF is often synonymous with "Raging inferno of death and dispair"

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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #10 on: March 12, 2009, 06:06:17 pm »
Maybe they should start calling it the Boatmurdered experiment :D
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #11 on: March 12, 2009, 06:08:06 pm »
Since he hasn't mentioned miasma, nope, does not qualify as Boatmurdered.

Seriously though, any DF experiment HAS to have miasma.
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #12 on: March 13, 2009, 11:51:28 am »
Has anyone tried to mod in magma fish?  :D
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #13 on: March 13, 2009, 11:55:55 am »
 Screw magma fish. We need plants that only grow if you empty a magma pipe and start farming it.
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Re: Magma farming
« Reply #14 on: March 13, 2009, 12:06:42 pm »
But magma fish that cause fisherdwarves to burst into flames would be awesome.
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