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[Sowelu]

How many times have you said to yourself, "Self...I'd love to dig a stair shaft that goes down to magma, but it's so time consuming to press all the buttons!"  Well, stop giving yourself RSI.  Just select up/down stair...left-click on the place you want to put it...and then hold down the > button.  It'll designate on every single level, and you don't even have to click, press, or release anything.

Yay science!

[Mitchewawa]

It's even faster to do it using enter, >, enter. This way it can be done across an area, which is better because 1x1 stairways get crowded easily.

[tommy521]

Or designate over z levels. That also works.

[Angel-of-Dusk]

Designations now can be done across AND up and down z levels. You can start the designation 10 z levels up, move it into a 3x3 pattern, then go down 10 z levels, hit enter, and you've made 10 z levels of 3x3 staircases.

[612DwarfAvenue]

Indeed, finally being able to make multi-z-level designations is GLORIOUS.

Designate the entire embark from the highest z-level to the lowest to be channeled. You know you want to...

[Urist Da Vinci]

Release notes for 0.34.01 (February 14, 2012):

...

Other bug fixes/tweaks
   (*) designations over z levels all at once now possible
...

[Sowelu]

Well damn. That's why I had stray designations sometimes. Okay that works too~

[Talvieno]

Always use the multiple-z-level designation feature with deep channeling. You'll have more Fun that way.

[Vehudur]

Always use the multiple-z-level designation feature with deep channeling. You'll have more Fun that way.

I tried this knowing what would happen and it is indeed FUN.

35 of 37 miners dead by the time they finished.   I actually think just a single miner might be moderately successful at it.  Science shal be done.

Don't feel bad about my killing 35 dwarves - they weren't, they were elves.