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[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

I have seen many ways people deal with this noxious gas from airlocks and using the fact it does not go diagonally, all the way up to decoratively allowing it to exist. Whats your special way of dealing with it?

[Wahad]

I keep my refuse, accessible from below, walled off, outside.

No hassle.

[Simmura McCrea]

A refuse stockpile with two doors. Not fancy, but it works, assuming the dwarves put stuff in the damn stockpile before it rots.

[serephe]

I just leave mine on the ground. If my dwarves aren't dwarf enough to ignore it, then they don't belong in no fortress of mine.

[Anamabir]

I make a stupidly complicated system of hallways, filled with a plethora of doors, leading up to a needlessly elaborate arrangement of airlocks, which, finally, leads to my refuse stockpile.

[Untelligent]

I keep my refuse stockpile outside.

[Albedo]

Any diagonal (or getting it outside) will stop the spread, and that's a good thing, but the problem is often refuse collection in the first place.

If that's the case, you need more haulers with that turned on.  I also make sure any kitchen-area workers have it turned on, and that there are multiple refuse piles so no one has to walk too far.  (I turn it off for miners and forge-workers - don't want someone hiking half a mile just to throw away a rat in the food stockpiles.)

Early on, with only 7, I largely ignore it.  No one should be so unhappy (unless friends have died, etc) that miasma will push them over the edge.

[thunderclan]

I have a stockpile outside for it to rot in then move the useful stuff to a larger stockpile inside.

[Mount]

I maintain separate refuse stockpiles.. one or more in a diagonal-door room or in an "outside" area that accepts anything but bone, shell, skulls, and hides, and one near the craftshop that accepts ONLY those items.  It keeps the materials handy for my crafters, and makes sure that they don't have to wade through the Bog of Stench to get to them.  Thus, the only dwarves ever exposed to miasma are designated "garbage men dwarfs"

[alfie275]

I dump my rubbish in the volcano. Any bodies go into my iron sorting room magma chamber.

[The Mad Engineer]

My noble bedrooms all have an airlock.



'nuff said.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

I dig out a area and have a zigzag wall so that it can be accessed from any side but the smell not get out.

[Duke 2.0]

 Refuse area outside set to not accept bones, skulls and shells. Separate internal stockpiles are made for those, so they do not disappear.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

the biggest problem I have is no one wants to gather refuse! my answer is zigzag walls in strategic points so miasma doesn't spread so much.
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  ▓  ▓  ▓   <-- it works just use it to separate areas like food storage from others without doors and such!

[geoduck]

Ditto what others said about outside dumps; I always put a wall around it as well, so the dumpers don't have to worry about being attacks.

I also put up lots and lots of doors, because I enjoy the look they give a fort.