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[Urist McLaptop]

I'm constructing an above ground tower with the wizard tower mod and I was thinking.is it possible to make walls+floors extend into space from the side of the tower and build a bedroom.I would then assign nobles into them.if they displease me in any way (or just for the heck of it) I will get rid of the bridge (walls actually) connecting the room to the tower and watch them plummet to their death.
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    _m#__________|

[Coalwalker]

As long as the sides of the walls have adjacent walkable tiles that are reachable by your dwarves, yes. Just watch out who/what is under the room when it collapses.

[Vodrilus]

It might be more efficient to suspend the room with a support, like so:

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That way, you can drop the poor bastard at the flick of a wrist, instead of waiting for the deconstruction of walls or floors.

[MasterShizzle]

I'd recommend building it with a solid floor connection first, then building the removeable supports, then removing the solid connection once you're sure everything will hold.

Also: For ASCII-type illustrations, just use code tags. Code windows are mono-spaced.

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<= Fort
|    ______
|   |      |
|   |  @   | <= Noble
 ===D      |
|   |______|
| ^
| |
  Supports

[Urist McLaptop]

So basically support it by a beam from the ground?

[wierd]

For added !!FUN!!, make the way in and out of the "archmage's quarters" be via raised/lowered drawbridge, and place the lever for that inside his room.

Also, right next to that lever, is the lever to deconstruct the floor support.

Because, as we all know, "accidents happen"

[Mohreb el Yasim]

if ever-igniting bins are still possible i would put one on the top of the room and drop it, when he is closed in, rigth on his barrels of drink alchemy lab :
 

- Accidents happens! -
- the magic tower version -

[Urist McLaptop]

PERFECT LOL.

[wierd]

!!Arifacts!! Work as a good replacement for !!coal block bins!! For doing the above.

You would think that the archmage would be into that kind of thing, being a fire that never burns out, and an item that never burns up....

How were we supposed to know he would get so upset!?

[Urist McLaptop]

he is a noble and he is ALREADY making demands in year ONE.there is  no law around thank goodness but that little creep is gonna be buried in rubble ONE WAY OR ANOTHER!

[thegoatgod_pan]

Supports are the way to go and you don't need to do it from the ground: the support can be attached to part of the tower and hold up the disconnected area from above

[Randy Gnoman]

Bridges don't provide any structural support.  You can actually use them to drop little cave-in bombs if you build a wall or floor adjacent only to a bridge, because your dwarves will build it and then it will immediately collapse. 

If you want to build a whole room, though, you'll need a support in there.

[Starver]

Also: For ASCII-type illustrations, just use code tags. Code windows are mono-spaced.

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<= Fort
|    ______
|   |      |
|   |  @   | <= Noble
 ===D      |
|   |______|
| ^
| |
  Supports

Not really adding to the discussion, but if you can handle the chaos of editing the resulting text, you can also use the [tt]truetype[/tt] tag to hold your diagram, which lets you add colours to it, as well as append non-true-type text onto the right...

<= Fort
|    ______
|   |      |
|   |  @   | <= Noble
D===D      |
|   |______|
| ^
| |
  Supports

(But it doesn't like preserving leading spaces, so watch out for that.  I added another doorway to the LHS of the support floor link thing, in this example.)

[wierd]

I like the idea of a drop-down support, like a thin little cable, holding up Urist McArchmage's quarters from above, and his using a drawbridge to get in and out of it, with the lever to close the drawbridge INSIDE his quarters. (that way he can feel super safe and secure inside, at the flick of a lever.)

However, place additional levers that link to !!FUNFILLED!! activities, one of which is the deconstruction of his support, which would send his entire quarters falling however many Z levels you felt appropriate to suspend him.

Bonus if you send him on a submarine adventure of the great magma sea. (have to use real native stone walls and not constructed ones for that though.)

[Starver]

Cast obsidian walls also work for that too, doesn't it?