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[Charlylimph]

So I want to cover the walled part of my fortress with glass and make a giant skylight. How do i do this?

[Garath]

cover as in make a sort of roof? Well, you can make glass blocks and make a floor with it. It just doesn't let any light through.

[itg]

Although a glass block floor is the most practical option, a roof of unsupported windows will let light through (I'm like 90% sure) and is much dwarfier. To build unsupported windows, build a floor where the windows will go, build the windows, then deconstruct the floor. You'd have to start with the central windows and work your way out.

[Larix]

It could be argued that _everything_ lets light through, after all, an aboveground tile is considered lit and you can grow aboveground plants there, even if you have a dozen granite floors built above.

Windows and fortifications (and probably grates and bars) can be seen through. You probably could build a ceiling entirely made of fortifications. It'd be a major undertaking and i'm not too sure they're see-through vertically.

Unsupported windows have been covered already. Floor grates and bars can be built instead of floors, but need adjacent floors or walls for support, and i think they regularly check their "supportedness", so you probably won't get away with deconstruction tricks like with windows.

[Garath]

I'm taking 'lets light through' to also mean 'can be seen through'

Fortifications have a floor beneath them I think, so wouldn't work for this idea. I like the 'unsupported window' thing. I might use it myself sometime for skylights or whatever.

[Charlylimph]

I will test the window floor thing and report back soon.

[Charlylimph]

What about gem windows?

[Trif]

Gem windows work exactly like glass windows.

[FrankMcFuzz]

Gem windows work exactly like glass windows.

Except gemmier... And you don't need to piss around with sand and potash and smelting and going through a painful process for clear windows. All hail the red glass ceiling.

Though it's easy when you've got the industry, so go nuts.

[Charlylimph]

Ginormous gem window it is.

[Garath]

disco ceiling

[Charlylimph]

I'll post pics in a couple years after I finish it. If I don't flood my fortress first.

[itg]

Note that gem windows require 3 gems. Also, if you use different color gems, they "twinkle." That is, the window cycles through the colors of the gems.

[Sirbug]

There is no reason to use glass, other the role-playing. Right now everything is illuminated once natural soil and rock above it is removed.

[Garath]

Note that gem windows require 3 gems. Also, if you use different color gems, they "twinkle." That is, the window cycles through the colors of the gems.

like I said, disco ceiling