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[ManaUser]

I'm sure there have been dozens of suggestions on this topic, but I was just watching a dwarf build a trade depo and it gave me an idea for a simple way to make all those rocks less annoying to deal with.

I noticed he automatically cleared the rocks that were in the way before he started. Why not just let us do the same thing without making a building?

At first I was thinking a designation, but it seems like those are usually handled one space at a time, so making sure they dump the rocks completely out of the area instead of just moving them around would require a different kind of handling.

Some other possibilities:

1. A virtual building (a "clearing"). It would and would require no skills, material or time to build. When finished, it would do nothing.

Pros: Should be super simple to implement. (Maybe even moddable?) since regular buildings already incorporate clearing.
Cons: Hackish. You couldn't build anything else there without removing it first.

2. "Clear area" activity zone.

Pros: Probably the most versatile.
Cons: Zones are a little annoying to use. Probably more work to implement.

3. Automatically clear stones from (non-stone) stockpiles, which are the only place the really hurt anything, AFAIK.

Pros: Automatic.
Cons: Least versatile.

[Rowanas]

Good suggestion. Shame a simple search turned up the same suggestion from a week or two ago.

SEARC FUNCTION. USE IT.

[ManaUser]

Good suggestion. Shame a simple search turned up the same suggestion from a week or two ago.

SEARC FUNCTION. USE IT.

I did try, it's a little hard to search for words as common as "clearing" and "stones". If you could link me to the pevious topic, I would appreciate it.

[Granite26]

Good suggestion. Shame a simple search turned up the same suggestion from a week or two ago.

SEARC FUNCTION. USE IT.

We's gots to be nice to the new users...  Tell them politely

[Felblood]

You might also try to make us look literate, if you really want to go the extra mile.

Sorry, it's late and I'm tired, but I still shouldn't have said that.

[tsen]

Good suggestion. Shame a simple search turned up the same suggestion from a week or two ago.

SEARC FUNCTION. USE IT.

Hi, I'm new.  I don't see any SEARC options in the forum menus. I think it would be great if hauling was improved... mine carts for example, if we could designate specific materials for item construction, tell engravers/decorators what to decorate with, if we could have bigger sieges, if we could control immigrant numbers, and the economy was fixed.

Oh, and I want anvil traps and to be able to set job priorities for each individual dwarf. And pathfinding needs to be sped up, it drains too much processor time.

[Sunken]

Hehehe

[Tamren]

The problem with searching to see if topics have been mentioned before is that most of us who come up with the same idea give it a slightly different name. So either you do many many searches with various keywords or you do a very very general search (like "stone") and sort through the hundreds of results.

[ManaUser]

A few more thoughts on (my take on) a "clear" command. In addition to objects, why not include boulders and saplings? It's somewhat unintuitive that boulders have to be "smoothed" and there doesn't seem to be any straight forward way to get rid of saplings at all.

[lucusLoC]

Or you could be like me, cruzing teh forums on a remote device that has no java. All i get is text, no feilds or buttons, so no fancy things like search or quote. Makes things fun.