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C4lv1n

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Old way to keep dwarves from walling themselves in no longer works, solution?
« on: December 20, 2014, 11:01:15 pm »
The old way to stop a dwarf from standing in the wrong spot while conctructing something was to designate a wall construction where you didn't want them to be, and then suspend that order. Turns out that this no longer works, so now I'm not sure how to keep dwarves from doing that.

Additionally it also means that dwarves will now stand in eachothers way while building lengths of wall.
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Re: Old way to keep dwarves from walling themselves in no longer works, solution?
« Reply #1 on: December 20, 2014, 11:16:23 pm »
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Where was I? Oh. Oh. I see.

My method for that is to build a door in the wall, then forbid the door, then wall over the door later, when the wall is finished. Sort of a final escape hatch. It does make a sort of bump in the wall though, and if you want it perfect, that is an issue.
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Re: Old way to keep dwarves from walling themselves in no longer works, solution?
« Reply #2 on: December 20, 2014, 11:16:43 pm »
hmmm.  if thats true Im sure a new way will be discovered.

I would suggest either tearing down the wall if its wrong or suspending the job of they are determined to screw up.  maybe having the blocks on the tile will help them be efficient little buggers
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Re: Old way to keep dwarves from walling themselves in no longer works, solution?
« Reply #3 on: December 20, 2014, 11:25:33 pm »
I'll probably just have to go with the door option for now then.
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Re: Old way to keep dwarves from walling themselves in no longer works, solution?
« Reply #4 on: December 21, 2014, 02:39:52 pm »
Dwarves build from the side of the wall that the material came from, iirc.
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Re: Old way to keep dwarves from walling themselves in no longer works, solution?
« Reply #5 on: December 21, 2014, 05:11:42 pm »
The "old way" was already defunct in .34.11. Of course, in that version, dwarfs would actually drag the building material around until they were building from the "inside". This behaviour was re-broken in .40.x (to get rid of the "trying to build on their own feet" bug, i think).
I guess we just have to watch our builder minions a bit closer and draw bulk building materials from fort-internal stocks instead of using whatever's nearby.
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