[quote=“BeerBeer, post:8629, topic:42”]1. What happens if one pours 30 gallons of water on a lava tile? Nothing? Obsidian?
2. Are there any other means to drown a lava tile in water?
3. Can you drain a lava tile from below? Or does the lava exist there as well?
4. Can lava tiles be covered with constructions? And if so, does the cover-up eliminate the heat?
(All this assuming that a character can actually take the heat from standing next to lava.)[/quote]
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- Stop, real world mechanics here. Water reaction with lava depends on what is happening if lava runs into water, creates pillow basalt. Aka black hard volcanic rock that is like 52% weight silicon. Same stuff you see after lava cools, pillow basalt tends to clump into a large mass then shear off into smaller roundish balls as the outside cools first, then they smash into each other and pile up as they start to cool.
If it runs over wet sediment it forms the normal basalt we see around volcanoes.
Obsidian forms with 70% of more silica and it’s usually deeper in the ground and harder to find.
Basically what forms is mostly basalt type, and depends on the other sediments that are in the lava.
I don’t think I’d ever want to stand near anything and pour water on lava. Something hot enough to melt sand also melts metals and flesh.
last note: Lava tends to produce a highly explosive steam when reacting with any decent amount of water or anything wet, that would probably burn you if your stupid enough to stand next to it, if explosive bits of rock didn’t also fly off and hit you.
