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[andrea]

I am building a marble castle in a cold environment. When I embarked i thought that snow would melt on summer, but when I discovered that only a small part of the map does it, while the other is permanently frozen and that gives me a little problem: my good wood block floors are all snowy. Now i can afford to just build a stairway to heaven and build the top floor first, but i had to hurry on the first ones, to give shelter and workplace to dwarves, so they are all snowy. Since i have no magma, what can i do to clear the snow? of course i could decosntruct and rebuild, i have that kind of dwarfpower ( half my migrants, if not more, have masonry and carpentry as only jobs, to speed up construction) but i would rather not. Not after i built all the workshops at least.

[Blaze]

Maybe toggling weather will work?

[Jim Groovester]

Workshops are easy to build and to destroy, so I don't think that them being already there should be an obstacle to removing floors and what not.

I can't think of any other way of removing snow other than removing and replacing the floor tiles, outside of letting a magma man run through all your corridors. But that's probably too much of a problem on its own.

Hrmm. Maybe give dwarves a slightly higher [HOMEOTHERM:?] tag, so that in the process of walking around, their radiant body heat melts snow?

[andrea]

the problem with workshops is that i don't want to take note of everything i have. but if it has to be done, I'll do it... moving the whole cloth uindustry i'll build will be a pain, but not too much compared to the eye poking of deconstructing walls... ( they flash! they all flash!).
thanks for the help.
i'll try homeotherm thing... might turn interesting. might also burn my wooden workshops...