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[Vicid]

I've gone to the bottom z-level and a mining the whole thing to fuel my stone tower and crafts...

Uh... is it possible that this could cause my fortress to collapse?  Should I build supports or leave columns of stone?

[Fossaman]

The way cave-ins work at the moment, collapses only occur when stone is disconnected from stable support. So as long as you don't channel out the outside edge of every z-levellevel, you're fine.

[Time Kitten]

or, alternativly, turn off cave ins in the init file, and have floating single tile floors, and flying building connected only by drawbridges?

[Demonic Gophers]

But it doesn't hurt to leave some columns anyway, just for looks and realism.

[rocksolid142]

what happens if you mine the level directly under the ground, every single one across the board, does the whole map just collapse?

[Duke 2.0]

 Again, collapses only happen when you have a segment of rock that is not connected to either the edges or the bottom z-level. You can mine out every level and only leave floors and have it work. Just don't make channels in a way as to disconnect rock from the outside edges or the bottom.

 Edit: Although it would be awesome for a fortress to collapse a bit into a pit, making a pit on the surface with a fortress underneath the pit.

[DennyTom]

You cannot mine every segment, can you? When designating digging, game does not allow digging edges of map.

[ElChad]

You cannot mine every segment, can you? When designating digging, game does not allow digging edges of map.

You can still channel the border which you CAN mine delivering the same effect...