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[Mostali]

how do you get rid of ramps at the end?

Most natural ramps disappear when you clear all the walls around it.  So once you've channeled the level you just d-z all the edge ramps and the occasional stray from the middle.  Clearing up-ramps takes very little miner time.

Edit: even better, if you're channeling out the next level you just ignore them

[Max™]

Incidentally, I don't know why I forgot to mention it but using ramps instead of channeling is MUCH safer. You kinda have to try to get cave-ins if you're doing ramp-removal of a layer at a time. I did four full underground levels on a 2x2 with no accidents whatsoever.

[Ezekhiel2517]

Incidentally, I don't know why I forgot to mention it but using ramps instead of channeling is MUCH safer. You kinda have to try to get cave-ins if you're doing ramp-removal of a layer at a time. I did four full underground levels on a 2x2 with no accidents whatsoever.

Thanks for taking the time to explain this. Still I think that I wont be able to use your method. Maybe I can explain better with this sketch:

The fortress on the outside is very irregular. My dwarves deliberatly left the outsides very rough, in contrast with the luxurious insides. So my method to channel all that empty spaces out is first digging all the gray squares and then channel them out starting from the edges and finishing in the closest square to the fortress, then shutting that square with a wall or just letting it open like a big window to the open cave. so far I did almost 3 z levels. I already have most of the living and working buildings complete, i´ve brought water from the surface 130zlevels above to have farms, and the fortress is totally functional by now. Its just the outsides that I have to finish.  It seems I will be doing this like a month or more. I thought that maybe tiletypes could help, but I cant even run that sh#"

[Max™]

If you ramp from the top down you can still do that pattern.

Instead of using dig designations just use a ramp there, it will remove that tile and the floor above it.

[Ezekhiel2517]

If you ramp from the top down you can still do that pattern.

Instead of using dig designations just use a ramp there, it will remove that tile and the floor above it.

damn that sounds logical, will definitely try that out later. Its a shame I didnt realize it before. Lots of good miners were lost to their king´s crazy dreams of a legendary fortress. At least It inspired me to write a good story

[Ezekhiel2517]

Incidentally, I don't know why I forgot to mention it but using ramps instead of channeling is MUCH safer. You kinda have to try to get cave-ins if you're doing ramp-removal of a layer at a time. I did four full underground levels on a 2x2 with no accidents whatsoever.

YES! I finally figured it out! you were right Max and Mostali. Man I´m making great progress now. So many lives gone by this mad king´s delusions and dreams! Oh this will definitely become a story someday and you will be included there for sure. so I just simply ramp an entire floor (following a determined pattern) remove the remaining ramps on the edges and some of them that remains scattered around. Move a level up and this one is already hollow. Move another level up and ramp all over again, and so on. Thank you so much for your time and patience!

[Max™]

Well, I prefer to ramp from the top down, they'd have to be able to fly to ramp upwards I'd think.