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[Baro]

I was trying to grate over a 4x4 area when I realised grates can't be placed supported off other grates (I'd really like to see grates treated more like floors for this aspect).  But I did find that floors can be supported horizontally by grates, or at least the build system though so.  When you build a floor attached to a floor-system made of grates,  it instantly falls and gives you a cave-in warning.  Essentially the dwarf is simply tossing the stone down.  It results in quite the little explosion actually!

[Aspartic]

Just noticed the same thing. Floor shows up as a valid build location, but it instantly falls when a dwarf attempts to place it.

[Paul]

It's a fun way to kill nobles. Just have a hole surrounded by grates above their bed, and when they go to sleep order someone to build a floor.

Othob CabnulrŒthol has been crushed under the collapsing ceiling.

[Exponent]

I used to think this problem was minor (though I still would have liked to see it get fixed), but it became more serious with the new mass construction ability, as I explained (in a probably overly verbose fashion) in this suggestion thread a month ago.  Essentially, when using bridges (which work like grates in way that is relevant in this thread) as scaffolding, you sometimes have to revert to building one tile at a time, eliminating the benefit of the mass construction.  Otherwise, you get idiot dwarves causing cave-ins for every single floor or wall tile they build except the last one/few that actually connect to something stable.

[i2amroy]

Yeah, you will get this same problem with bridges. Before I knew that, I lost six of my seven starting dwarves in a terrible lake fortress accident. (The cave-in's suction pulled my six builders of of the bridge that I had built and into the water, simultaneously knocking them unconscious for long enough that they couldn't make it out of the water when they came to before they drowned.