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[Sethatos]

I've noticed since I've moved my training barracks up into a constructed tower above ground that occasionally the sparring dwarves will spar through the wall and end up outside the tower. Fortunately it's only a 2 level drop, but it could be more if they ever go through the wall above the river canyon. It happens at a specific sparring event like this when they tangle together after a charge:



Has anyone else experienced this? And if I double up the walls making them 2 tiles thick will that solve the problem?

[Thisfox]

Many players have experienced this. And double-thickness walls will solve the problem.

....and don't put the sparring room one-wall-thickness from a magma tube, trust me on this...

[Sethatos]

Thanks! I'm on it, and fortunately I hadn't turned on the magma pumps yet 

[PatrikLundell]

I believe you need at least 3 tile thick walls to be sure, although it's probably rare to manage to get through double thick walls.

[RocheLimit]

I believe you need at least 3 tile thick walls to be sure, although it's probably rare to manage to get through double thick walls.

Agreed.  I have my barracks 3 floors up with walls two tiles thick and they still occasionally dodge through it, though such events have gone from a once-a-month kind of thing to a once-a-decade kind of thing.

Another thing that may help is keeping the borders of the barracks' room away from the actual tower walls.

[Fleeting Frames]

I believe you need at least 3 tile thick walls to be sure, although it's probably rare to manage to get through double thick walls.

I recall ConstructIvory succession had a dwarf charge through three walls and  something like 30 tiles diagonally, then fall down over 20 z-levels after doing the Wile E. Coyote impression.