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[pol]

Hiya.  I just started playing this crazy awesome thing, and I have been using the wiki a lot.  Anyway, I was tracking down info about workshops and I noticed that the workshop page for version 40d there was the following paragraph:

Be Aware! - Most workshops have one or more inaccessible tiles - locations within them that block movement over that one tile. These are different with different workshops, are visible as dark green tiles when placing the workshop, and are also shown in the sidebar of every wiki article on any particular workshop. You cannot "spin" a workshop - its orientation is fixed, every time the same. Don't build a workshop to then realize that it blocks the only door in and out! (If you do, you can use q, x and give the order to tear it down, recover the building material, and try a different plan.)

This paragraph is omitted in the current version of the Workshop page, but in the DF UI it still appears that some workshop squares are "lit" and others are not, which makes me think that the block inaccessibility is still a thing.  Perhaps it is not? 

Before I just go in and make some Wiki edits, I figured it would be good to ask the community if that is the case.

cheers,

-p

[MonkeyHead]

It is still a thing. It is useful to place the inacessible square for magma powered workshops over any magma holes you dig (to prevent things going down into or up from the magma...). Just be careful not to box dwarves in if you use smaller workshop rooms - it is suprisingly easy to do this with the Jewellers workshop.

[Putnam]

That's what the BLOCK tag is for.