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[Harke the Boeotarch]

I want to build a palace out of the same material as my furniture, rather than excavating it.

Say I constructed a gold building with a gold floor, or a wooden building with a wooden floor, could I still engrave it?

Also, if I built something out of gold, would it be better to build it out of blocks or not?

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[gomwon]

You cannot engrave constructed walls.

I would also like to know about blocks. Apart from wells, they seem pointless.

[EmperorJon]

Blocks are indeed worth more than the base.

[Lectorog]

Blocks can be organized better, are worth more than a standard stone, and things made out of them can be built faster.

[Urist Imiknorris]

The only exception to the block value > stone value rule is metal, which is the same value. With blocks, the only real point is to have "<material> block walls/floors/stuff" instead of "rough <material> block walls/floors/stuff," again with the exception of metal, for which the "rough" descriptor is simply "<material> wall/floor/stuff." Blocks are also useful for making 3x3 or bigger stone bridges look better, and making workshops that you won't forbid by mistake when mass-forbidding building mats in the stocks screen.

[Harke the Boeotarch]

^ Thank you all. Been reading up on blocks. In my next fortress I'll probably be building everything from them.

Is there really no way to engrave built walls? That sucks!

[AWdeV]

Yep, can't be engraved. Bit of a bummer if you build things instead of digging it out, but you can make up for it by using better materials or adding other shiny stuff to distract your dwarves from whatever misery is hounding them.

[Scraggletag]

The answer, as always, is Magma.

Obsidian cast that palace, dig/smooth/engrave the rooms and make obsidian furniture.

[Togre]

Walls can always be removed, the stones reclaimed, carved into blocks and rebuilt into engravable walls.  A bit of work, but what dwarf is scared of ....well, anything, but work in particular.