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The magma sea is a large body of magma deep under the earth. Volcanoes are geographical features visible on the location screen, making them much easier to find when choosing a site for your fortress. They never erupt, unlike their real-life counterparts. Volcanoes are an endless source of magma as they will always refill themselves. Volcanoes are magma pools that extend all the way to the surface. the magma level at embark) or until it is halted by a bridge, floor, or bottom of a wall. The entire embark tile containing the pool will produce sporadic bursts of magma until the magma within it is at its natural level (i.e. Magma pools will slowly refill themselves, giving the player an infinite source of magma. However, magma pools can be identified by the obsidian walls which surround them. Magma pools seem to always be connected to a magma sea, and the sea and pipe can occasionally reach up to the same level, making them hard to separate. Most end a few z-levels above the magma sea, though some may span more than 100 z-levels. They can be found underground, but they rarely reach the upper z-levels (40+). Some fire-based creatures make magma their home, or are just simply immune to it.ĭespite the name, magma pools are more like pipes. As a rule of thumb, the area coming out of a 1-wide-pipe shouldn't be more than three squares wide and 20 squares long, or else it will evaporate as fast as you fill it. This, combined with the fact that it will evaporate, can make filling a reservoir difficult and tedious. A pipe to bring magma across the full map can take as much as a year to fill. Without screw pumps to impart pressure, magma flows rather slowly (though no more slowly than unpressurized water). Note that magma located above semi-molten rock will be listed as a Magma Flow magma in magma flow tiles will disappear when mixed with water (instead of cooling into obsidian). When magma is mixed with water, it forms obsidian (and steam). Magma never cools, but can evaporate if left at a depth of 1/7 for long enough, much like water. Materials that can withstand the temperature of magma are called magma-safe, and the list is rather extensive. Magma is extremely hot, which can lead to even more Fun. Magma serves as a heat source, replacing fuel in magma smelters, magma forges, magma glass furnaces, and magma kilns. Magma that emerges aboveground is called Lava however, the substance itself remains the same. Magma is red-hot molten rock that wells up from deep within the earth (but not so deep that it cannot be found by dwarves), entering the map either by the edges or by the area beneath a magma pool. Dwarves can swim in magma, but only once.
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