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[Ragingpantsless]

It seems somewhat odd that all of the dwarves I've had choose to stand to the left (west) of whatever they are doing, be it: mining, construction, deconstruction, really anything they have to stand next to. Just thought I'd point out this seemingly zealous theme, and if anyone else had noticed this.

[darkrider2]

yeah this is basically why when you dig out a gigantic square room starting at the bottom right. Dwarves dig to the top left and then start clearing everything out.

At one point there was a bug where if dwarves couldn't build from a certain side they wouldn't do it at all.

[smjjames]

Its just the way the pathing system works. Which unfortunately, leads to dwarven stupidity more often than not. If you have ever designated a large area for anything, they'll always work west to east, top to bottom when possible. Even when its the least efficient way to do whatever it is that they are doing.

[Ricky]

i notice they build on the top left side of stuff i.e

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at least my dwarfs

[Reese]

can't seem to find where it states it in MagmaWiki, but dwarfs have a hard coded preference on where to stand while mining or building constructions.
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and I forget the order for the diagonal squares- but that only really applies to mining and deconstruction

if the square is occupied by another dorf or a building designation, they will avoid using it unless all options are thus occupied (which means you can prevent them from standing somewhere while constructing stuff by designating a wall and suspending it!)

[Zidane]

Dwarf mecca? That's what I assume.

It would also explain why they need to go on break 5 times every day.

[Urist son of Urist]

I never noticed this.  To me it always seems they dig out a room at random, as inefficiently as possible so that it takes the longest amount of time before a usable area is available.
Seriously.  One time they dug out what was very nearly a checkerboard pattern.  I wished really hard that I could go into the game just so I could slap all of my miners.

[hvlkn]

can't seem to find where it states it in MagmaWiki, but dwarfs have a hard coded preference on where to stand while mining or building constructions.
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http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:How_do_I_construct_a_wall_from_a_particular_direction LINKAGE!

[Zaik]

If you're having trouble with idiot haulers building themselves into rooms, you can build a wall in front of the place you want the real wall, then build another wall where the only way it can be built from is the side you want, they cannot(or will not?) build walls diagonally so they will go to the only free side.

[hvlkn]

If you're having trouble with idiot haulers building themselves into rooms, you can build a wall in front of the place you want the real wall, then build another wall where the only way it can be built from is the side you want, they cannot(or will not?) build walls diagonally so they will go to the only free side.

Really useful if your building anything that blocks: floodgates, grates, even digging channels!

[Urist Imiknorris]

It doesn't work with channels - my miners keep channeling themselves into the same square as the wall while digging my pumpstack.

[Reese]

can't seem to find where it states it in MagmaWiki, but dwarfs have a hard coded preference on where to stand while mining or building constructions.
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http://df.magmawiki.com/index.php/40d:How_do_I_construct_a_wall_from_a_particular_direction LINKAGE!

thanks, but that article doesn't contain the order of preference of the 8 directions.

[hvlkn]

first, for building, there is only 4, and if you look at it, you might see that you can place the 'fake' walls where you don't want them to stand. Oh wait, you had a problem?

[smjjames]

The wall suspend method doesn't work if you have florring down, but placing some random furniture and suspending it seems to work.

[Reese]

first, for building, there is only 4, and if you look at it, you might see that you can place the 'fake' walls where you don't want them to stand. Oh wait, you had a problem?

It applies for things besides building.

You quoted me saying I couldn't find the order of preference for all eight directions, so i assumed you were responding to me.