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[Alpha Dwarf]

Couldn't find this one.

I really, really want to fill all these damn holes I've dug. They are ugly.

New option in 'd' menu: Dirt. Creates a mound, or fills a hole. HUZZAH!

Now, is the game able to discern the types of dirt on the map, and if so, is the game able to give you open ended choices? Example: following the Dirt command and pressing "enter," then brings up a menu with the types of dirt, or clay, you have in your map and you choose one.

[weenog]

Being able to transport soil from place to place (other than by caving it in) and modify the terrain that way is actually kind of a cool idea.  Might have come up before, I'm not sure, hadn't thought about it much before.

For filling potholes right now you could pump stack magma and water into place and cast obsidian, but that's not going to give a very uniform look with the natural terrain.

[Deimos56]

I like it. Maybe make a Zone on the map where dwarves dump off some of the dirt they've been digging (the rest of it presumably being handwaves as being hardpacked to create the tunnel), and you can have them fill a tile back in if you have enough of it?...

Or, taking it a step further, maybe being able to coat a floor tile with a thick layer of dirt that would have to either be periodically replaced or fertilized, but would allow you to farm on that tile?

[Babylon]

Being able to transport soil from place to place (other than by caving it in) and modify the terrain that way is actually kind of a cool idea.  Might have come up before, I'm not sure, hadn't thought about it much before.

For filling potholes right now you could pump stack magma and water into place and cast obsidian, but that's not going to give a very uniform look with the natural terrain.

You can also build walls in the hole, or floors on top.

[Alpha Dwarf]

You can also build walls in the hole, or floors on top.

But I neeeeed dirt, that grainy, loamy, clayy, soily goodness. I must have dirt. Need dirt. Real dirt...

Yeah...

The, uh, dirt should allow for vegetation to grow of course.

[GreatWyrmGold]

Until such time as better mechanics for gathering clay and sand are implemented, the soil could probably be gathered in much the same way, from any soil you have available. The question is, of course, where this order would be given.

A new menu where you can also order gathering of clay or sand? I hope so! Yet another reason to support this suggestion.