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whiterook6

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Building over open air
« on: May 07, 2009, 10:03:04 pm »
Can you build a floor tile beside a wall without support under it? I want to build a bride out of stone, maybe three support pillars, then floor and walls from one end to the other.

Or, perhaps, a tower that gets wider as it gets taller.
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #1 on: May 07, 2009, 10:09:20 pm »
Yes, walls (constructed or natural) will support adjacent floor tiles, and vice versa.
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #2 on: May 07, 2009, 10:09:36 pm »
floors and walls can be constructed attached to other floors and walls without any support underneath.  There is no real physics-based collapses yet, just when something doesn't have *any* support it will cave-in. 

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"I accidentally dislodged a single tile at ground level while trimming the hill around the fortress entrance, and it punched through a lava moat, a gem stockpile and a bone stockpile before coming to a halt in someone's bedroom.  The bedroom's owner, a planter, was in bed at the time, and he got up and walked to the door just in time to get a coating of lava, gems, bones and scorched legendary miner chunks."  -NCarter

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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #3 on: May 07, 2009, 11:03:39 pm »
Better advice: try it and see.
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #4 on: May 08, 2009, 06:37:36 am »
Learning by failing.

A DF tradition since ver 1.0.
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #5 on: May 08, 2009, 06:48:55 am »
Quote from: Albedo on May 08, 2009, 06:37:36 am
Learning by failing.

A DF tradition since ver 1.0.

*Looks at the top of the page*
DF isn't ON version 1.0 yet. With the way toady's going 1.0 will be an complete and accurate simulation of a universe.
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« Last Edit: May 08, 2009, 06:51:07 am by Zona »
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #6 on: May 08, 2009, 07:22:19 am »
Quote from: whiterook6 on May 07, 2009, 10:03:04 pm
I want to build a bride out of stone,

I don't think sex dolls made out of stone are going to be fun.
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #7 on: May 08, 2009, 09:04:56 am »
Quote from: Zona on May 08, 2009, 06:48:55 am
With the way toady's going 1.0 will be an complete and accurate simulation of a universe.
Fiat Lux

I think Toady will travel back in time, convert his memory to a computer named "Deep Thought," and...

Well, if my suspicions are correct, everyone here reads as much sci-fi as they read fantasy.  You should know the rest.
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #8 on: May 08, 2009, 09:46:04 am »
Are you saying our entire planet was created so a bunch of nth-dimensional mice could play the ultimate Dwarf Fortress simulation?

The dwarves, goblins and elves must have died off in worldgen.
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #9 on: May 08, 2009, 10:00:15 am »
Quote from: Untelligent on May 08, 2009, 09:46:04 am
Are you saying our entire planet was created so a bunch of nth-dimensional mice could play the ultimate Dwarf Fortress simulation?

The dwarves, goblins and elves must have died off in worldgen.
The dwarves probably died off from drowning in carp infested water... The goblins probably died by impaling themselves on the dwarves' traps. And the elves just sucked so much the mice killed them themselves.
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #10 on: May 08, 2009, 03:02:24 pm »
Quote from: Untelligent on May 08, 2009, 09:46:04 am
Are you saying our entire planet was created so a bunch of nth-dimensional mice could play the ultimate Dwarf Fortress simulation?

The dwarves, goblins and elves must have died off in worldgen.
or they didn't have their own entries in before worldgen started
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Quote from: Aspgren on April 17, 2009, 01:36:31 pm
I think it'd be better to just throw him in a pit.
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #11 on: May 25, 2009, 04:09:57 pm »
Quote from: Untelligent on May 08, 2009, 09:46:04 am
Are you saying our entire planet was created so a bunch of nth-dimensional mice could play the ultimate Dwarf Fortress simulation?

The dwarves, goblins and elves must have died off in worldgen.
Hmm, I've met a few booze-loving cantankerous dwarves in my time. Certainly are plenty of tree huggers around too, and a few who might be described as goblinish. Also, I'm firmly convinced my last g/f was a tentacle demon in disguise. There may be something to this theory after all!
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #12 on: May 25, 2009, 04:47:15 pm »
I think all of our minds would have appreciated it if you hadn't said that last part. :P

But on topic, it is pretty amazing how good Dwarven engineering is. They can make a roof over the world with stone tiles, so long as one of them is adjacent to a pillar or wall.
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Re: Building over open air
« Reply #13 on: May 25, 2009, 06:36:43 pm »
Not only that, but their stone is so good that one wall tile can support the whole planet.

Do you not believe? Go way to the bottom, mine everything but one piece. Then build a stone wall, after that mine the rest of the rock.
You know what this says about the god of all:
Armok, Dabbling-5 Physics God.
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