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[Bumber]

Dwarves will begin lower priority designations while others are still working on higher priority ones. When channeling, this can result in cave-ins.

There should be a setting to force them to wait until all higher priority jobs of the same type are completed. There could be a distinction between dig and smooth jobs, but also an option to wait for those to complete, too.

Another suggestion is to allow markers to be changed into designations more easily.

[lethosor]

Dwarves will begin lower priority designations while others are still working on higher priority ones. When channeling, this can result in cave-ins.

There should be a setting to force them to wait until all higher priority jobs of the same type are completed. There could be a distinction between dig and smooth jobs, but also an option to wait for those to complete, too.

Are any other higher-priority jobs accessible when the dwarves start working on lower-priority ones? If not, that could be an explanation. I don't think it would make sense to block a 1-tile-wide priority-2 shaft from being dug at all if a similar priority-1 shaft hasn't been completely finished yet.

Another suggestion is to allow markers to be changed into designations more easily.

There's a "toggle marker" option in the designations menu (maybe M?) - what else could be easier?

[Bumber]

Are any other higher-priority jobs accessible when the dwarves start working on lower-priority ones? If not, that could be an explanation.

The issue I described is this:

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If a novice miner (or a dwarf on the other side of the fort) is assigned to the center tile, the other miners can channel out all of the surrounding tiles before it's done.

I don't think it would make sense to block a 1-tile-wide priority-2 shaft from being dug at all if a similar priority-1 shaft hasn't been completely finished yet.

Hence the setting.

There's a "toggle marker" option in the designations menu (maybe M?) - what else could be easier?

Doesn't that just switch between painting marker and designation? I was talking about being able to activate the markers so they can be dug. AFAIK, you have to paint over each with the proper designation.

[lethosor]

I don't think it would make sense to block a 1-tile-wide priority-2 shaft from being dug at all if a similar priority-1 shaft hasn't been completely finished yet.

Hence the setting.

I still think it'll lead to issues where a priority-1 square somewhere unreachable/irrelevant will prevent digging elsewhere, and lead to faulty bug reports, etc.

There's a "toggle marker" option in the designations menu (maybe M?) - what else could be easier?

Doesn't that just switch between painting marker and designation? I was talking about being able to activate the markers so they can be dug. AFAIK, you have to paint over each with the proper designation.
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No, that's d-m. d-M (note the uppercase) is "Toggle Standard/Marking", which changes existing designations.

[Bumber]

I still think it'll lead to issues where a priority-1 square somewhere unreachable/irrelevant will prevent digging elsewhere, and lead to faulty bug reports, etc.

I suppose unreachable ones could be ignored, just as long as you don't start a job while a higher priority one is active. It could even be another option.

When in progress (default) / Finish same type / Finish all
Ignore unreachable: on / off

That's 6 combinations, which is reasonable to be cycled using a single key.