Volcano not erupting

German “Vulkan bricht nicht aus” is about the Cinis volcano, not the Vulkan graphics runtime. Anno Union’s two volcano blogs describe a cycle. Standard phase has no buff and no debuff, so a calm island is the default state, not a stuck animation.

Check these before you call it a bug

• Eruptions can be switched off. Off means no Bloom and no new obsidian.
• The gap between eruptions is at least 8 hours of play and at most 15.
• Eruption plus volcanic winter together last at most 140 minutes.
• Turning eruptions back on waits for the next cycle. It does not fire immediately.
• If you already had an eruption and then disabled them, each skipped cycle drops soil level by one.

Update 3.0 fixed Gaze at Volcano pointing the camera at a ship instead of the cone. That was a camera bug. It is not a way to trigger an eruption. No console command or file edit for a forced eruption appears in the blogs, and this page will not invent one.