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[ptb_ptb]

In the piccy below, can a dwarf build the wall shown?



DF lets me place the wall there, but will a dwarf standing on the down ramp actually have enough access to build it or not?

[Astrid]

The hopplehead can stand on the up ramp and build it diagonally.

[ptb_ptb]

The hopplehead can stand on the up ramp and build it diagonally.

You can build while standing diagonally, but only if theoretically you could be standing adjacent.

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dorf 'd' can build a wall at [1] or at [2]

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dorf 'd' can't build a wall at [2] because there are walls already in the way.

[PatrikLundell]

Dorfs can and will build diagonally only if they could have done it perpendicularly. This is something you have to take into account when digging and removing stuff. Just because the only legal access is e.g. straight to the west, it still isn't safe to dig a channel e.g. straight south of the only legal access position, since the builder might stand there anyway, because he COULD have stood in the legal position. I've had dofs masoning themselves into a room by standing diagonally on the wrong side, because they could have stood on the correct side.
So, to build the wall, you first deconstruct the westmost one, built the missing one, and then rebuild the one torn down (or raise the terrain to the south, to get legal access).

[ptb_ptb]

So, to build the wall, you first deconstruct the westmost one, built the missing one, and then rebuild the one torn down (or raise the terrain to the south, to get legal access).

Yeah, that's what I thought. Which makes this officially a (minor) bug. It should register there is no access to build when I try to place the wall, but it doesn't.