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Two layers of Ceramic will do a pretty good job against most heat sources.  Volcanoes.. Could be rough.  However, insulated sandstone or obsidian or granite will not be useful at all.  Insulated ceramic is the best pre-space insulator, short of creating a vacuum seal.

It's time consuming, you but you can make a vacuum doing the diagonal tile trick.  Build a + out of tiles and destroy the center one to get a vacuum.  To extend it just add tiles to surround the next one you want to destroy and continue.  You will not be able to recover the materials you use to make that center tile in the vacuum, so make it out of something you have a lot of like sandstone or whatever.

11 minutes ago, ONIfreak said:

 If you don't have ceramic yet surround volcano with 1tile vacuum. It will create heat barries around it untill you have materials to deal with it

I would only use obsidian on volcanoes as ceramic will eventually melt. Vacuuming is best but leaving an unvacuumed gap between insulated tiles is also sufficient. Dont fret about it too much, if the heat bothers you a wheeze or 3 can help

If you have enough obsidian you could try to put a three layers insulation around the volcano. Obsidian is not a good insulator but it will not melt with lava. The first layer would be at 1500°C then the second would be 800°C or so and then the last should not be too high and should be cool enough to not impact your base too much.

Edit : Or you could build a single obsidian insulation layer and create vacuum between the insulation and a regular tile wall.

Anyway, when dealing with regular volcanoes, obsidian is your best friend.

1 hour ago, JukedByLife said:

The best way would be a layer of obsidian on the inside followed by a layer of insulated ceramic on the outside. This will prevent any heat from leaking out. Hope it helps ;D.

I did thaty with a gold volcano in an ice biome. Just 2 layers and no heat got out for 300+ cycles.

7 hours ago, MorsDux said:

I would only use obsidian on volcanoes as ceramic will eventually melt. Vacuuming is best but leaving an unvacuumed gap between insulated tiles is also sufficient. Dont fret about it too much, if the heat bothers you a wheeze or 3 can help

I've never had a magma volcano on my map.  I've had iron and gold volcanoes, and I've worked with the magma at the bottom of the map.  Ceramic melts at 1849.9c and the magma at the bottom is 1500c to 1600c, well under the melting point of ceramic.  Gold and iron volcanoes have not been a problem either.

3 hours ago, KittenIsAGeek said:

I've never had a magma volcano on my map.  I've had iron and gold volcanoes, and I've worked with the magma at the bottom of the map.  Ceramic melts at 1849.9c and the magma at the bottom is 1500c to 1600c, well under the melting point of ceramic.  Gold and iron volcanoes have not been a problem either.

true, I misread something when i built my magma chamber, i should reconstruct it with ceramic...

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