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[Uber dwarf2.0]

hi guys I was wondering about how to do below 16 zlevels on a flat area. Is there anything I have to do before I tunnel down there?

Edit: this question is based upon the wiki and the captnduck tuts. one says workshop cause sound upon 9 z-levels one says 4

[Jim Groovester]

That's the bottom of the map. You can't go below it.

Likewise, you can't build higher than fifteen z-levels above the surface of the map.

[forsaken1111]

hi guys I was wondering about how to do below 16 zlevels on a flat area. Is there anything I have to do before I tunnel down there?

Edit: this question is based upon the wiki and the captnduck tuts. one says workshop cause sound upon 9 z-levels one says 4

On the sound issue, both are correct because different sounds have different distances. The loudest sound will reach 9 levels or tiles in all directions, so keep your bedrooms 9 tiles or z-levels away from any working areas.

[Jim Groovester]

Workshops produce sound throughout a radius of four tiles in all directions, up, down, north, south, east, and west. The result of this is a cube with an edge of length nine, with the workshop being the center.

So both are technically correct.

[Uber dwarf2.0]

Workshops produce sound throughout a radius of four tiles in all directions, up, down, north, south, east, and west. The result of this is a cube with an edge of length nine, with the workshop being the center.

So both are technically correct.

Ok new question:
1 THEN WHATS THE POINT OF TELLING ME THAT THERES 139 Z LEVELS
2 if I make a room to fill with magma and after I fill it I put water on it to make obsidian with the obsidian contain ore?

[Jim Groovester]

Ok new question:
1 THEN WHATS THE POINT OF TELLING ME THAT THERES 139 Z LEVELS

No need to shout. Saying a map has 139 z-levels means that there is the top 15 of open air, the bottom 15 of underground, and then any number of z-levels that are a combination of the two. In your case, you have an enormous mountain, as base to summit is 109 levels.

2 if I make a room to fill with magma and after I fill it I put water on it to make obsidian with the obsidian contain ore?

No.

[riffraffselbow]

No need to shout. Saying a map has 139 z-levels means that there is the top 15 of open air, the bottom 15 of underground, and then any number of z-levels that are a combination of the two. In your case, you have an enormous mountain, as base to summit is 109 levels.

This is kinda convoluted, so I'll try to clear up what jim means: the "level number" is related to sea-level. Even if there isn't sea in the map section you selected. It's global.

[Smew]

No need to shout. Saying a map has 139 z-levels means that there is the top 15 of open air, the bottom 15 of underground, and then any number of z-levels that are a combination of the two. In your case, you have an enormous mountain, as base to summit is 109 levels.

This is kinda convoluted, so I'll try to clear up what jim means: the "level number" is related to sea-level. Even if there isn't sea in the map section you selected. It's global.

Aha, I've always wondered about that, but just never bothered to care.