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[juu]

I've just started with the game. The most annoying thing seems to be that every time I get something done, like finished the bedroom or dining room, the cavern collapses and half o' me crew die. Well, I didn't mind it at first. But the very next day some mandrill start creeping around me fortress. So my questions are adressed to those players whom have more experience 'bout the game. What can I do? every single fortress that i've made has collapsed. I've made a pilar per every 7x7 room but it still keeps collapsing and killing me dwarfs. Thank you.

[Harald387]

Generally, you should dig individual bedrooms rather than a single large one - unless you're building a barracks, your dwarves will be happier with their own rooms.

That said, a 7x7 room with a pillar shouldn't collapse. I prefer to leave undug sections rather than build supports, as supports can conceivably be torn down. Supports also prevent me from building a farm that overlaps them (annoying) and can't be decorated by my legendary Engravers.

My farms look like this:

| - wall
X - floodgate
. - floor
= - water
_ - channel
D - door

code:

||||||||||||||||||||||||||
==X______X.......|.......|
==...|...|.......|.......|
==.......|.......|.......|
==.......|...|.......|...|
==.......|.......|.......|
==.......|.......|.......|
==.......|.......|.......|
==...|...||||||||||||D||||
==........................

I haven't had a cave-in in ages.

-K"H"S

[Lord Blue]

The game looks for any complete, unsupported 7x7 square, and then collapses it. There is no explanation, other than a bug, that you would have a cave-in from something other than a 7x7 (or greater) square within a room. Post pics if you're completely stumped.

[OldMiner]

Also note that uilding a support only marks the place where the support should be, and it shows up for now with a grey background.  Not until a dwarf with the masonry skill actually brings the building material and constructs the support will it change to a normal transparent background and provide real support.

Easy solution: Dig 6x6 areas.

[JoJo McLeod]

Or 6 x anything...