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[Shakkara]

I build a lot of stuff aboveground and am always out of rock...

[BatCountry]

I used all of my excess rock to build a floor completely over the top of a magma tube.

Well, that and I'm working on a massive fortified tower for archers on top of my airlock-style trade depot.

Traders get in, goblins stay out.
I intend to see if the gods will strike me down for building a 20 story tower.

[Shurikane]

I intend to see if the gods will strike me down for building a 20 story tower.

Make a drawbridge near it so you can fling caged goblins at a 20 foot walls. 

[CptFastbreak]

I think you can store stone in bins, only the stockpiles are set to accept zero bins by default. At least I had an Ore stockpile with a bin on it after I increased max bins for that one.

[Psiclops]

10 mason shops set to max Competent, with 8 repeating "rock blocks" tasks. 3-4 other mason shops with Min Skilled (thats competent +1 right?) with no tasks, then use the job manager to create the furniture/statues/etc you need. Add mason skill to everyone that you can spare from other jobs.

I'm up to 12k rock blocks now. Same problem, different item.

[inaluct]

I'm building an Aztec inspired pyramid. When it's done, I'll put my goblin cages on top, station my champion with the artifact mace up there, and release the goblins. I figure that he'll probably knock at least one of them flying off the pyramid, and it'll be sort of like how the Aztecs would throw sacrificial victims down the stairs of their pyramids.

Anyway, right now I have a flooding problem, and I expect that if I sacrifice enough victims to the Sun-God, he'll help me dam my river.

[LegacyCWAL]

I do the usual stuff: block it up, make stone crafts/mechanisms/furniture, fire catapults, etc.  I usually wind up throwing a few thousand under an atom-smasher or into lava as well though.

However, I try not to make big constructions out of raw rock if I can help it.  This is because my main problem with excess rock is not that it's ugly or gets in the way (which hiding or dumping can take care of, respectively), it's that when you have a few thousand stones laying around, accidentally going to the "stones" part of the stocks screen will make you freeze up until it counts it all.  Big constructions just change where the rock is, and thus doesn't help that issue at all

I think you can store stone in bins, only the stockpiles are set to accept zero bins by default. At least I had an Ore stockpile with a bin on it after I increased max bins for that one.

You can't store stone in bins.  You can store blocks in bins, but not raw stone.

I've noticed that if there's a stockpile that accepts bins but doesn't have any, the dwarves will go put one there.  My guess is that that's what made them put a bin in your stone stockpile after you maxed out bins for it.

[Footkerchief]

d-b-h makes me so goddamn happy

[duro]

d-b-h makes me so goddamn happy

This exactly. And a goddamn quantum dump (with an access door for nobles).

[MetBoy]

I think you can store stone in bins, only the stockpiles are set to accept zero bins by default. At least I had an Ore stockpile with a bin on it after I increased max bins for that one.

You can't store stone in bins.  You can store blocks in bins, but not raw stone.

I've noticed that if there's a stockpile that accepts bins but doesn't have any, the dwarves will go put one there.  My guess is that that's what made them put a bin in your stone stockpile after you maxed out bins for it.

What happens is if there is a stockpile that accepts bins, AND there are no empty bins in that stockpile, a dwarf will gladly put an empty unsigned bin into that stockpile, 'for later use.'
Example: make a gem stockpile, make a bin, the bin is put in the stockpile, and when you mine out some gems, they are put in that bin.