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[H.P. Urist]

When you're building walls and floors, if you want to build a wall on a tile that contains a constructed floor you have to deconstruct the floor first.

Why have the extra step?

Why not just have the game eliminate the floor tile during the construction process and replace it with a wall?

[Aslandus]

The reason it happens is that a floor is included with the wall (so you would be trying to build a floor on top of a floor), but you're right, it would be a lot more convenient to just build a wall instead of removing the floor first...

[lethosor]

I think it might be possible to do this with DFHack - I recall a bug in one plugin that allowed building constructed floors on top of existing ones, which didn't cause crashes. The main issue here would be determining which construction a "remove construction" designation applies to - allowing multiple constructions per tile would probably end up requiring additional designation options.

[Deboche]

Your wall would then cost 2 blocks though...

[lethosor]

The point is that deciding to build a wall on top of an existing constructed floor currently requires removing said floor, which is less convenient and much slower (and possibly less safe) than simply building a wall on top of it.

[utunnels]

Yeah, sounds fine to me.
But it is easy to adapt currently game logic. Deconstructing a structure is much slower than building it. So buiding a wall over a floor should cost your dorfs more time, and generate one unit of building material upon finished.

[Elagn]

I would prefer an order for your dwarves to simply "convert" a constructed floor to a wall, instead of building a wall on top of a constructed floor.

[Deboche]

I would prefer an order for your dwarves to simply "convert" a constructed floor to a wall, instead of building a wall on top of a constructed floor.

Exactly which doesn't make much sense how would a floor require the same amount of material as a wall+floor?

Either utunnels's idea or make walls cost 2 blocks.

[ptb_ptb]

This would be very useful. I sometimes want a 'cave-in proof roof', making one is a right pain at the moment. The best strategy is to repeatedly build and deconstruct bridges, but it's tricky and timewasting.