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[parlor_tricks]

How do you mine out all the annoying stalactites in your cavern layers, without causing massive depopulation due to cave ins?

I remember discussions on using stairways as the optimal method, is this still true?

[Mitchewawa]

The same as any multi-zlevel channel, such as those you do to make above ground farms; start from the top, mine out a layer at a time, keep an eye on it.

In this case I'd do one stalactite at a time.

[FrisianDude]

The same as any multi-zlevel channel, such as those you do to make above ground farms; start from the top, mine out a layer at a time, keep an eye on it.

In this case I'd do one stalactite at a time.

Not really an option if they are only connected at the top, though.

[AWdeV]

Then build a support/-ing wall underneath it.

I don't generally bother removing stalactites. I dig a staircase inside it if I know there's gems to be had but unless it's made of ores or gems entirely it's not really worth the bother.

[Naryar]

You make caves with large openness and small passage density !

[parlor_tricks]

I could have genned a world, but what can I say, I want to beat my head against a wall.

That said, the individual column mining techniques is possible, but its excruciatingly slow.

I recall a particularly amazing map where he had carved all the Z layers below the ground into a cavern = before cavern layers were introduced!

I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience in mass mining out of those columns.

[Crossroads Inc.]

You make caves with large openness and small passage density !

SMALL passage density?
I thought that meant how big passages are.
How does decreasing size make a more open cave?

[Triaxx2]

That refers to how many are within an area. So higher density means more individual passages. While lower means fewer passages. Thus larger caverns.

[Nameless Archon]

If the issue is avoiding this problem, try lowering density and openness. This will tend to create caverns mostly consisting of scattered single-tile halls connecting small chambers.