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[ThrowerOfStones]

I'm a lazy bastard so every fort I've started so far I've started on the rim of a volcano for easy magma access. In this one particular fort, though, I noticed something weird when I went to check where the volcano was to see where the best place for my fort entrance would be.

In two areas around the crater, I noticed... puddles. Just  couple thin, 1/7 water tiles. That's weird, I thought, and then didn't really give it much more thought.

I'm in a temperate zone, though, so come winter, all the water on my map froze. Dum de dum de dum, kept playing, setting up my fort, la la la. Then spring comes, and suddenly I get the notification, "A section of the cavern has collapsed!"

I had just been channeling out a eventual magma moat, so I was like, "Damn! Did I mess up!"

Then to find out that what collapsed was something inside the volcano.

Curious, I go to look and find that the puddles of water have become rather significant torrents which are flooding into the volcanic vent from both sides. Weirded out by this sudden influx of sourceless water, I check around to discover that apparently on opposite sides of the volcano there are two areas where the floor is labeled "murky pool", but which unlike normal murky pools do not appear to have walls, but instead abut directly on the volcanic crater. Thus whenever water falls into them, it immediately flows out in to the volcano.

It seems freezing "increased" the volume, since presumably the game doesn't track whether the water that froze was at 1/7 depth or 7/7 depth, and so when it unfroze a sudden torrent of water occur.

Still, I'm wondering how rare this is to have murky pulls inside a volcanic crater. I'm also wondering if I can put it to any nefarious purpose...

[jester]

Ive never even heard of this before and I pretty much always embark with a volcano.  I have notice rain filling up my pools recently as well.


  What biome was the volcano in, do you remember? and did you fiddle with the volcanism (? not numbers of volcanos in world gen, the other one, cant remember what its called, volcanism sounds semi right).
  All my volcanos have been in mountain areas, so no pools

[ThrowerOfStones]

I increased the number of volcanoes to 100 but did not alter vulcanism at all. I found doing that usually makes volcanoes appear in non-mountainous regions, although they usually form their own mini-mountain out of whatever biome they are in.

I THINK I am in a hills region, although to be honest I don't 100% remember. The only wildlife I seem to be getting is horses and buzzards.

[jester]

Mmmmm, the only time I have seen volcanos without mountains was when I was messing with volcanism

[Solace]

Yeah, in my current fort, the top of the volcano is a bit flat, and there's a murky pool that was apparently placed before the volcano, so when I entered the map I got a collapse message, and about a quarter of the top of the volcano became obsidionified. However, without that freezing bit you mentioned, that hasn't happened since then.

[monk12]

I can't wait until calderas are in...