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[nunix]

So, it seems I lucked out, at least from reading some of the other posts around; the surface level of my mountain is sand, but I only have to go -1 to sit rock.

What I've wound up doing is turning that top level in stone stockpiles, for the moment; allows me to dig down for the real fortress, and the stone doesn't have be trucked all the way outside to a dump site. It just goes upstairs. This is because mining through sand is FAST, and it creates no refuse of its own.

[Solara]

I've been turning my top level into farms, kitchens and food stockpiles, and I'm experimenting with digging a shaft straight down the middle of the fort for a convenient place to dump all the stone on the other levels in.

I think the amount of stone that gets left from mining must be a bug, skilled miners aren't supposed to leave it so often, but I'm getting a rock with practically every tile and it's a pain to remove. It's not even a matter of aesthetics at this point, I literally have no clear space to put stockpiles right now.

[BurnedToast]

I don't think it's a bug so much as a feature of the new stone/ore system. Basically, ore is just another type of stone that can be smelted now. Legendary miners before had a 100% (or damn near) droprate of ore, and it mimic it, it seems they get a 100% droprate of all stone now at legendary (as a bonus, it seems to work for gems too).

I think the best option would be a new option, dig or mine. dig just pounds out the rooms and destroys the stones while mine takes slightly longer and leaves stone like it does now with higher miner level making more stone/ore/whatever.

Then again I guess it's pretty realistic. Your digging a fortress out of solid rocks, of course you are going to have some problems moving all the excess material.

[infinity]

quote:Originally posted by Solara:
<STRONG>I'm experimenting with digging a shaft straight down the middle of the fort for a convenient place to dump all the stone on the other levels in.
</STRONG>

How do I tell my rittle dwarves to automatically dump stone?  

Also, anyone know a way to keep it from pausing everytime I hit damp stone during mining?

[Matias]

hit and set area as dump area. Then tell your dwarves to dump the stone. They will also pause every time they hit damp stones...

-Matias