Magma workshops passable via floor channels.

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Do we know if this is intended or a bug?

Didn't previous versions not allow access unless you had more than only the exact required tiles channeled?

[Senti]

I've had magma crabs crawling out my lazy magma forges for as long as I can remember. If that's what you're talking about, you need to move some magma and seal over the sea unless you like having your legendary weaponsmiths sat on by a dumb animal made of lava

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Ah, thanks, I must be misremembering then.

[Robert]

All workshops now don't have blocking tiles anymore. That was most probably intentional to avoid pathing problems if a new player isn't aware that some tiles are passable but others not.

But yeah, it means that you can't just channel into a magma sea or volcano like before. But that's really no big problem because you can easily come up with a design which seperates your magma workshops hermetically from the magma source.

Although... giving that a second thought.... it's probably possible that some magma creatures just spawn inside your sealed off lava, isn't it? What a bummer lol.

[Xcorps]

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

Do we know if this is intended or a bug?

Didn't previous versions not allow access unless you had more than only the exact required tiles channeled?

You can work around this by channeling with magma safe pumps and a floodgate blocking a cistern

Tap into the magma after you have the water ready to flood the same channel as the magma. Tap into the magma from a diagnal. When it's filled the channel that your workshops are going to be over open the floodgate and you'll block off the flow with obsidian. That will keep out the !!!FUN!!!.

Use an adequate miner, turn off all his labor except operate lever and mine. Drop a dummy lever behind a door that is locked from the rest of the fort. Put it next to the floodgate lever. Pause as soon as the dwarf moves away from the magma and turn off mining turn on lever. Set the dummy lever to repeat highest priority and run a few frames with . to make sure it's working, then unpause and the dwarf will hover at the dummy lever while the magma flows. If you see a crab or imp you can switch the lever jobs and block the flow, mitigate the beast, clear the obsidian and do it again.