I still don't understand how even one tile of stalactite can suck in a bunch of dwarves who were over 20 feet away and around a corner, unless the thing was made out of pure slade or Neutronium.
I think it's volume that matters, not density. What surprises me is that the game engine would actual model air pressure.
Volume matters more than density but bother are important if you consider extreme examples. A solid gob of neutrons the size or your fist would be immensely dense but not need to move much air. On the other hand if you had something solid with very low density, like aerogel, you could probably drop something the size of you biggest legendary dining room and not really push air around hard enough to suck someone over an edge.
We all knew that cave ins seemed to suck people over edges a lot more intensely in DF 2010 but Jesus Atheist Christ- this is way beyond the obvious intention.
Oh well, I never liked caving things in by mining away the last tile anyway. I originally learned how to link levers to things for causing collapses.
I wish we could do it with a small amount of explosives and a few hundred feet of det cord.
Other than the names of things how would that be different? Placing the support is like drilling some holes and sticking explosives into the tile. If you didn't mine most of it away anyway you'd just waste it when you triggered it.
You could probably adjust your tileset so the o's with different facing slashes looked more like the little box with the horizontal bar that you push down to trigger explosives in old timey mine theme places though.
Actually, detonators get attached to this little box that you can easily pick up and use without it sitting on the ground. hook the wires up, stick a key in, flip a switch and then press the button - at least with the ones I've got experience with.
*Insert kaboom here*
Actually though, drilling holes and blowing them up moves a lot more rock a lot faster than actually digging it - unless it's something really soft like coal. Of course, then you get gravel, and not chunks of stone, which means explosives are bad if you want a solid piece. Unless, of course, you wouldn't mind sitting there gluing the pieces back together.