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[iridian]

Hey,

I've been having trouble with using burrows to define the area where my dwarves are allowed to go.
The problem is mainly because my forts don't look like anything like a normal fort.
So painting burrows is always a paintstaking thing to do.

I'd like to propose the following replacement which could be toggled on or off:

A 2x2 (4) tile with arrows. (or 1x1 (1) tile)

Example A:
 > >
 > >

 or

Example B:

 ^ ^
 ^ ^


In the case of example A the dwarves will only be able to move from left to right
In the case of example B the dwarves will only be able to move from bottom to up

Moving in the other direction should be treated as 'not possible'.
Sort of like an "escape door" that has a pushbar on one side but not on the other side.

Possible additions:

If wanted the 'door' could be set open in the open position that would allow traffic to happen from both sides untill 'closed' and then it will resume the normal one way traffic ability

Squads could have the ability to open the door from both sides (with a key for all I care) so they could ignore the 'closed' restriction

Ability to do a checkup of sorts that makes dwarves check if they are on the correct side of the door (in = ok, out = path to in)


The idea for 2x2 is so that it works as a double safety door and dwarves won't try to path trough it when one of only two doors ' O >' or '> O' is open instead of the one of one door in the case of ' > ' or 'O'.

This opens possibilities to make hauling routes/define certain areas restricted.

Any thoughts?

[breadman]

Actual one-way paths won't work due to a connectivity optimization on pathfinding: It won't even start the A* algorithm unless the two points are known to be connected.  (This is also why the game can seem to pause for a bit when two large areas get connected or disconnected.)

However, one-way traffic designations could work well, at a memory cost of at least one more bit per tile.

[anewaname]

I've been having trouble with using burrows to define the area where my dwarves are allowed to go.
The problem is mainly because my forts don't look like anything like a normal fort.

There are no normal forts! But maybe you could use the burrows differently to achieve the same goal. Ask in the Gameplay/DwarfMode area.