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[TheSaffronOfDominating]

Are rooms in your fort more than 1 z levels high? Or an above castle? I'm just wondering, since i always build 1 z level high rooms.

[Aseaheru]

Depends. Somedays I build four or five level high greathalls, sometimes I build grange-hall like things that are two levels high and whatever is under the roof.

[Kirkegaard]

I have so far only had 1-z level high rooms, but plan to build some greather structures in the future, for the fun of it.

[ShadowHammer]

My legendary halls/treasure rooms/throne rooms are usually several z levels high, but otherwise everything is a single level.

[xcorps]

Does room z height contribute to room size for value calculations?

[Garath]

no, it's purely for your own sense of aesthetics (spelling?)

[fractalman]

My magma forges are two z-levels high-I discovered you can skip the cancellation spam by channeling from one layer above, then remove all the excess ramps when the miners are done.

[itg]

Now and then I'll make my dining hall 2-3 z-levels high, but that's about it. Even when I do large-scale constructions, the functional rooms are usually one z-level high.

[Sutremaine]

My magma forges are two z-levels high-I discovered you can skip the cancellation spam by channeling from one layer above, then remove all the excess ramps when the miners are done.

If you use down stairs instead of channels it still reveals the tiles below (making them diggable normally), but you still have a floor on the level above you can use as storage. I don't like the flashing though, so normally I channel and construct floors later.

[greycat]

I dig out the cistern where the magma will go, and the place where the smelters/forges/furnaces will go (right above the magma cistern), and then pump the magma into the cistern.  I just poke a hole (channel) for each smelter/forge/furnace as needed.

[Broken]

20z levels for important rooms, 2-5 for everything else. I want the fortress to look like a fortress.