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[Russell]

Hi everyone,

I'm making a castle around my stairs that take you into my dwarfs underground fortress. I have built the ground level wall and started on the second level. My dwarfs have stopped working on it though and there are currently no other tasks for them.

I don't think I am doing it right. Basically I build ramps around the outside so my dwarfs could get up and build the second level of the wall. What do I do once I get to the third level? The fourth?

I'm sure there is a really easy way to do this but I am just drawing a blank right now for some reason.

Any help is appreciated.

[Lormax]

Building a staircase along the side of the wall going up is the way to do it.  Ramps only work for one level.  Consider it dwarven scaffolding.

[Russell]

Arrrrgh I can't believe I didn't think of doing that. I was over thinking the situation completely.

Thanks for the reply

[gtmattz]

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dwarves deconstruct stairs from the bottom, so you take them down one layer at a time from the top when you are done.

[veok]

Stairs work even better as scaffolding when dealing with cast obsidian. In that case, you have a whole bunch of walls connected to upstairs -- remove the walls first, and then you can remove the freestanding stairs with a lever'd support and one massive cave in.