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[Aquillion]

I think wooden blocks are a good stand-in for all the various ways wood can be 'finished'.  Having all of them available would overwhelm the menus, so we just have a generic 'blocks' item instead.  This way, you have the option between using rough logs for quick-and-dirty low quality stuff, and spending time to produce processed wood for high quality things--that's a good thing, especially for people who want to rely heavily on wood.

But...  why not just change the default hotkeys?  That seems simple enough.

[Dreamer]

Well, stone boulders and stone blocks, when made into a wall, all make the same thing: A stone block wall.  Until there's a difference, it really won't matter.  All structures, when constructed, whether by raw materials or blocks, comes out 'smooth'.

In any case, it's perfectly possible to make a nice, tight structure with just some stone and mortar.  More difficult and it would require some l33t jigsaw skills, but I rather like the (Real life) look of natural rocks being used in a structure.  I hardly think it matters, though - I like the idea of keeping it simple and just walking with what we have.  It works just fine, so I think Toady could focus on something more important, for the moment.

But that's just me.

[Stof]

IIRC, raw materials make rough walls and blocks make smooth walls. I know that because there's no way to make blocks of ice so you are stuck using low quality/impossible to engrave rough walls in glacier maps. Too bad, I wanted my dwarves to have happy thoughs in their neat ice fortress  :p

[qwertyuiopas]

Could walls made from blocks be harder for invaders to break?
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[Dreamer]

quote:Originally posted by Stof:
<STRONG>IIRC, raw materials make rough walls and blocks make smooth walls. I know that because there's no way to make blocks of ice so you are stuck using low quality/impossible to engrave rough walls in glacier maps. Too bad, I wanted my dwarves to have happy thoughs in their neat ice fortress  

Time for some reconstruction...

[Align]

You can't engrave any built walls(or floors).

[Dreamer]

Ah - I thought he was saying you couldn't engrave rough constructed walls.  I suppose if I had actually read the post, I would've seen he was talking about glacier ice...

It would be nice if we could engrave them, though.

I'll just shush, now.  

[Stof]

Ah yeah right. You cannot engrave any kind of constructed wall. It wasn't what I wanted to say but it could have been easily interpreted like that. What I wanted to say was that ice walls already have a low enouth value and since you cannot neither smooth them or engrave them, it's a shame that we are stuck with rough walls and floors because you cannot make blocks out of the stuff