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[Loud Whispers]

Also,I doubt as you'd have too much problem in most biomes. Remember, where this happens in real life, it takes many a year to cause critical damage. Maybe you could have an alert that pops up, if an architect, or mason or whatever's relevant, sees the wall, saying 'Urist McStructuralengineer has noticed the poor condition of the wall' or some such.

If this was indeed a rare thing and gave an announcement with reasonable time to fix the issue, I could see it being more Fun than frustrating. Though really I don't expect this to cause more than forcing people to build roads around all of their constructions. Although the prospect of hostile cavern plants is too appetizing to not hope for.

[Mel_Vixen]

Mind you it makes a huge difference how you build. Big Block constructions like Native American Pyramids or stone-henge survive very long. A modern Skyscraper or a middle european city for a decade maybe two. A US american Suburb? Untended maybe 6 Moths depending on the latitude. In Arizona or Texas longer with the arid climate, further north you run quickly into problems with molds, rotting etc. . Take the suburbs in Detroit after the housing bubble, the general state of disrepair made these uninhabitable very fast.

In  Pripyat you have some called "Plattenbau" which are houses Build from Prefabricated Concrete slabs which are assembled much like legos (making it very economic and even artistic if enough different parts would have existed). This made them also rather sturdy so that these building often survive for more the 2 decades.

All in all i am for Plants & nature doing damage. I would includesuch stuff like Birches growingon roofs because soil acumulated there etc. Also rat, termite and mold-damage weakening walls and floors. would be neat if you break through a floor if you arent careful.

[DarbyMcB]

This needs to be in even if it's just for the simple fact of being able to come during adventure mode, after you've retired (or abandoned) your fort, and check out all the old rotting tomes in your grand libraries and the diamond encrusted tombs of your ancestors where roots of the great trees came and overtook them in their underground mausoleums.

Off topic

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We need to have books....I want my huge 20x20x5 libraries with books stacked up to the ceilings with ancient forgotten lore. With huge roots poking in from the ceiling from the trees above, growing along the rock walls to ultimately create great wooden walls of their own. When magic gets implemented, I'll make sure to have my oldest dwarf be my head wizard, and librarian. I think it would be awesome to have a subsection of dwarves working on collecting the history of the world throughout your game. eventually culminating the entirety of Legends mode into the library of your fortress.......*drools*

[GreatWyrmGold]

I'd make my library closer to 30×50 before giving it five levels most of the time, but the image rocks.

[DarbyMcB]

I'd make my library closer to 30×50 before giving it five levels most of the time, but the image rocks.

Honestly I'm just not sure how large it can be before cave ins begin, so I chose a safe size.

If I could I would have multiple rooms of 30x50x5, all connected by a central hallway with a small room at the far end designating the main chambers/office of the head librarian, where there's a massive rough stone pedestal, large enough that a dwarf would need a stool to see onto it, with a huge tome holding the locations and references for all the books in the library.

Each major room would have expansive walkways spanning across, with large balconies for finding books on the higher shelves. The rooms are so large they have monstrous pillars supporting the ceiling, with their own staircases enclosed within them that reach to the lower levels where the more powerful darker magic books have been sealed away.


Got a little bored, decided to write a little something for the staircases towards the bottom areas of the library

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As you delve deeper down the narrow stone staircase, the musty mildew smell and the thicker more humid air gives way, there is no dust in the air this far down, and it's much more clear. It's had too long to settle. It feels as though the air has been charged with electricity, as though if you touch anything you will be a ground for all the energy around you. Then suddenly you see through the dim light of your torch a glimmer or a sparkle. You rush forwards down the stair to find out what it is, and find that it's an expansive door engraved along the edges with long scripts in dead languages you can't even begin to understand, and encrusted from top to bottom with magnificent gems. There's an image of a massive book on the front with the pages turning revealing light as though it were coming from the book itself. You turn to look back only to realize you haven't been on the staircase for quite a while. When you  go back and look up you can no longer see the light at the top. You begin to look around, and can just barely see the top of the cavern. The ceiling is very uneven with stalactites dripping in various places, creating small puddles along the oddly smooth floor. The walls aren't even visible with your meager lighting, who knows how large this place is, this place is old enough even the dwarves who built it are long since dead, assuming they were dwarves to begin with, who knows what else would have ventured this deep but a dumb adventurer seeking magic and treasures beyond his wildest dreams.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Currently, no matter how big you dig your rooms they won't cave in without removing all possible support from the roof.
Great paragraph. I might need to borrow that idea for a D&D game or something.