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[aaron32]

I do it like:
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X = Dug out space.

This allows me to easily string workshops together. So, How do you do yours?

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I found a thread from 2009, And I didn't want to bump it. If there's another thread like this, My search-fu sucks. Sorry about that if that happens.

[Corai]

In my hallways, I just dig them in the hallways.



"Oh hey Urist, im on my way to the carpenters shop."


"Oh hey Urist, I am off to the masons shop, directly next to it."

"Oh hey Urist, I am off to the forge, directly across from that!"

"Anyone ever notice were in a hallway?"

[bombzero]

yeah, its funny, people will bitch at you for making a type of thread that already exists, AND they will bitch at you for reviving an old one.

anyways, I use something like your style but more intricate.

pretty much 6 of those around a central stockpile, branching off of an + intersection in the fortress.

[Eric Blank]

I like to use 7x7 or 11x11 rooms, because they stack nicely in there with a 1x gap between them, which I can use for miniature stockpiles as well as floorspace for dwarves trying to walk through. The farm workshops are always in an 11x7 room (or 7x11), and 11x11 rooms sometimes end up with 6 workshops along the sides, with the rest of the space being stockpiles. Of course, I almost exclusively use rooms that can be divided into smaller 3x rooms anyway, and hallways to match. Just part of my OCD.

[caddybear]

hmm. More recently I started setting them up in several Z levels when I figured out that going up or down a stair is the same as moving one square to a side. So instead of building a big 30x30 stockpile I make some smaller ones and put stairs. Didn't really do the math on how useful that is but it seems to work well enough.

[daneel]

21x21 rooms, workshops around the edges and stockpiles as needed in the middle. I'll probably come up with new things with minecarts though.

[slink]

I used to put them in 11x11 rooms, three or four to a room grouped by the raw materials they used.  Then I had 11x11 stockpiles in rooms surrounding them, containing raw materials that I hoped they would use.  With the new stockpile controls, I have changed many of them to be one workshop centered in an 11x11 room, surrounded by a stockpile of their raw material.  The stockpile gives to the workshop, so I can control what material that shop uses.  Sometimes I still group shops, such as the ashery and the soapmaker, with small stockpiles in their 11x11 room for ash blocks, tallow, empty buckets, and lye buckets.  I also put three stills side by side in one room, because one still wasn't keeping up with the supply of fruit.  In the magma forge area I have three smelters, each surrounded by a small (7x7) stockpile of their own ore.  It's a rather small supply but there isn't room on the forge room floor for an 11x11 stockpile for every magam workshop.  The haulers seem to keep the stockpiles there filled so it works okay.  I did the same thing for the kiln and the fire clay supply, except that I also have one unpowered kiln off in a corner, with no raw material supply, that is set to repeat on Collect Clay.

[DTF]

hmm. More recently I started setting them up in several Z levels when I figured out that going up or down a stair is the same as moving one square to a side. So instead of building a big 30x30 stockpile I make some smaller ones and put stairs. Didn't really do the math on how useful that is but it seems to work well enough.

This.
Usually 3 11x11 rooms on 3 z-levels. Quick and compact.

[Loud Whispers]

1. Build temporary workshops on top of grassy plains.
2. Begin building around workshops.
3. Build more workshops around the temporary ones, for convenience.
4. Well, moving them now would be a waste of resources...
5. Need more workshops. Where to place them...

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Almost all of my workshops are above ground now

[Spinning Welshman]

I use 11x11 rooms, fanned out around a central staircase that leads to my primary stockpile either one level above, or below.

Not the most efficient way of doing it, but it's easy.

[MrLobster]

Two rows of workshops spreading out from the central stair, with four 11x11 spaces for stockpiles behind them.  For example here is the main 'furniture and finished goods' floor of my current fortress:

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[Broseph Stalin]

My new design, it's space efficient and when the stockpiles are arranged properly theres only a few steps between raw materials and the workshop.

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[Urist Da Vinci]

Apparently some people haven't considered jewelers' workshops or bowyers' workshops. Beware of impassible tiles.

[Broseph Stalin]

Apparently some people haven't considered jewelers' workshops or bowyers' workshops. Beware of impassible tiles.

You have to be careful where you put them but my design ensures at least three pathways are always open.

[Loud Whispers]

Apparently some people haven't considered jewelers' workshops or bowyers' workshops. Beware of impassible tiles.

You have to be careful where you put them but my design ensures at least three pathways are always open.

Not very space effective though. Lining them up against a wall makes everything nice and compact. For Dwarves, there's designing workspaces, and spaces for workshops.