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[Marsunpaistii]

I'd like to know how can you build towers by yourself using walls and stuff. I have tried but I cant figure how to do it without having dwarves get trapped and die and other stuff.
I tried to make a very high tower that enemies have to walk through to get in my base but the first thing I got stuck with was getting up. And after getting a really strange solution with stairs and ramps stuff to get up the next problem was the dwarves that walled themselves in when walking on top of a 1x1 wall and building another wall on top of it. Is there any good way to make a tower?

[Lawec]

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If you start with this at the bottom, you can build a straight line of stairs up into the sky, then you build the floor first and afterwards two sides of the wall at a time. The two wall-segments you construct at the beginning must then be those opposite of each other so you wont end up with a missing corner. If you just start from the bottom and work your way up to the top, it should be fairly easy

[necrodoom]

theres are 2 ways of building one:
from inside: best from inside IMO. first build a central stair case and build floors around it and then surround the floors with walls. youll probably later have to destroy and change the floors so you can put what ever you wanted in it.

from outside: will look similar to constructing mountainhalls, only inside out. first build up/down stairs around where you want the tower then construct the walls. with this you can build a roof without leaving a hole in it but youll have to destroy the up/down stairs if you dont want to have an ugly tower and having marksgoblin climb up the stairs and shoot your dwarfs over the defenses.

[Thadius]

Start at the bottom, work your way up.  Don't go crazy with the stairs, but make sure there are multiple access points along each wall.  I cannot begin to tell you how many times I had dwarves get stuck on one of the walls when I was building an execution tower.  You get bonus points if you dig all the way down into the magma sea and use the tower as an execution shaft that drops the goblins thousands of feet into a burning death.

[Genkora]

make sure you build your corners first, or else you might wind up not being able to make them (dwarves can't build diagonally).  A faster way would be to build two sides parallel to each other.

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