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[AncientEnemy]

the wiki says that occasional/brief exposure to light will not prevent cave adaptation, but what about very frequent brief exposure, such as leaving an area the dwarves will constantly have to travel through open to the sun?

[FoboslC]

Yep that works.

[The Doctor]

Most people expose their meeting hall or dining room to sunlight VIA channeling down to it.

[Twad]

Just make sure you build paths that work around your exposed area, so when you order "no civilian go outside" you dont cut your fortress in two and start lagging like hell. Make some secondary paths with restricted traffic zone in it.

[Wolfius]

I generally have a walled outdoor courtyard(protects dancing dwarves when I tell them to stay indoors) with my meeting area in it.

Doesn't totally prevent vomet, tho. But that's probably dwarves doing jobs set to (R) in the bowels of the fort, like smelting.

[AncientEnemy]

durr this is why i shouldn't post at 7am after getting home from work.

i'll just put my meeting hall on the roof of my tower

[Skorpion]

I don't have cave adaption yet after a few years, but I have an extensive hunting operation and all the butcher shops outdoors.
And large-scale terraforming projects.

And seasonal goblin attacks that require almost the whole population of the fort to go out and haul their shite back.

[Phazer]

anyone more than me noticed that light go thru constructed floors, but its still inside

[Danarca]

Yeah, but it have to be an outside tile so they can be fully exposed to the vile sight of the sun. So constructed floors wont work.

[Phazer]

i heard glass helped with this but its still inside under the glass floor?

[Jim Groovester]

It's inside/outside that does cave adaptation, not above ground/subterranean. Glass has no effect, despite what you might think.

[Pilsu]

It's the fresh air, not the sun that's the problem

Leaving booze stockpiles exposed should do the trick

[LegoLord]

i heard glass helped with this but its still inside under the glass floor?

Yeah, glass doesn't help.  Constructions ignore what material they are mad of entirely at this point in development.

[Coaldiamond]

You could always try the open-air approach to fortress design, where each floor is built into a sloping hillside or canyon. I have definitely enjoyed my first experiment with it.

[inaluct]

I've never had a fortress with cave adaptation. Ironically, I've never tried to avoid it. I think I'll make one with the specific purpose of having two populations of dwarves: deep dwarves that never see light, and normal dwarves, that spend a lot of time in towers. It'll be sooooooo great.