How to walkthrough “Movements” level?

Question

I'm stuck at second to last level in From Dust, called "Movements". The level takes place inside a volcano's crater with lava pouring in and constant flood of rains. Whenever I start colonizing totems the things get out of control very quickly. Either I get flooded or burnt.

How do I handle unusually harsh environments on the level and complete it?

Answer 1

In case this is going to be useful to anybody. These are the keys to the winning:

• Grab "Evaporate" totem and always cast it when it's about to rain, to avoid flooding
• Grab the "Lava protection" quickly
• Remove all the sand from below your totems to avoid fires (surprisingly it's okay to remove sand and have 0% vegetation)
• Later in game try to direct lava outside of the map by building walls from lava next to it's emitters