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[Authority2]

This could be solved by making a setting for burrows that meant "everywhere except this burrow" - right now, the way I do that is by selecting the whole map from top to bottom edge to edge and then deselecting the specific area, but that runs into problems when I want multiple things to be avoided by certain combinations of dwarves, when I could do that with inclusive burrows by adding dwarves to both.

[JAFANZ]

If the highest pathing cost is set to a value where walking on every other tile on that level (not "any", "every" as in "all of them, one after the other") is cheaper, I would expect dwarves to avoid those tiles.

[Larix]

The pathing algorithm would still calculate those costs, and if there was no other way to get to a destination, it would still path through those tiles. I think it'd be more reasonable to use some kind of tile "feature flag" to set it as forbidden. Pathing already properly disregards open air, locked doors, walls etc., all without assigning fake-infinite pathing costs to them. Pathing costs are not designed to govern whether, only how dwarfs go somewhere. To give better control over the "whether", other mechanisms would be a better fit.

[ThrowerOfStones]

I think the inability to restrict dwarves from going certain places is probably intentional. We are not in direct control of our dwarves. We give them orders, but they decide how to carry them out.

[Authority2]

I think the inability to restrict dwarves from going certain places is probably intentional. We are not in direct control of our dwarves. We give them orders, but they decide how to carry them out.

You can restrict dwarves from going certain places - it's just clunky and slow.

[Loci]

This could be solved by making a setting for burrows that meant "everywhere except this burrow"

No it couldn't because burrows don't work like that. Burrows only restrict which jobs a dwarf may take, not where a dwarf may move. If his chosen path to an allowed job goes through unburrowed tiles your dwarf will happily march right out of his burrow (see example upthread).