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[Uzu Bash]

Similar to the Fun you can get from digging too deeply, building too high could carry consequences as well. Namely, the wrath of winged beings with flaming swords coming to knock over your tower of babel.

[Fancy Admiral]

Or maybe attracting the notice of Flying Beasts in general.  Dragons, FBs, or things yet unknown (like the angels to which OP refers), could fall in this list.

Problems with it, though:  Right now, there is a max height above peak ground level which defaults to somethng around 20-z-evels.  That's not a huge buffer on flat terrain, though can give way to rather deep mountain embarks.  This limit is in place to reduce lag, I imagine, so it makes sense somewhat.  How high is too high?  The other problem I can see is better formed as a question, maybe:  What is the reward for building so high?  We have plenty of rewards for digging deep, so the risk can be worth !!FUN!!, bu why would anyone risk an arial onslaught if there was no gain?

[Stormcloudy]

Adamantine could come from the heavens as weapons against hell. That is, the heavens bombarded the planet with adamantine spikes eons ago.

I like the idea of this, it should be much harder than hell, because it's more difficult to build than dig, it should probably have vastly more adamantine (If underground ~1200, above sky is ~4000) or even a better metal, like Diamondite or something insane.

[Caesar]

Killing angels not enough for the lot of you?

[Uzu Bash]

Killing angels not enough for the lot of you?

This. It's own reward. If that's not enough, surely there could be resources more imaginative than more of the same. Blue stuff is downstairs, let's try something else in the other direction.

[Zrk2]

Golden swords, only called something outrageous.

Fill it with Gods that make Demons look like fluffy wamblers.

Those that weren't ghosts could come down and repopulate where they lived before they died.

[Fayrik]

Blue stuff is downstairs, let's try something else in the other direction.

...Airium?

[Rowanas]

This has been suggested MANY times, but not recently, so I reckon it should be allowed to slide.

The best things about building too high should be:

1: Celestial body parts. If mermaids are worth a quid or two, imagine angel bones!
2: All of the world is beneath you. The entire land is yours if you so choose it. Magma? Pump it up there. Dwarven paratroopers? Teach them to swim and catapult them into a fake sea from on high.

This post should not be construed as support for the suggestion. I hate the idea of building too high. We're dwarves, for fucksake.

[Zrk2]

While I hate to derail the topic I feel a need to reply to Fayriks signature. The 'daily' cycle of dwarves is dragged out because they live much longer, so their whole life is stretched out.

ON TOPIC: Airium is a poor name. Maybe Otataral, sorry just read the Malazan Book of the Fallen and I am out of good ideas. Perhaps simply 'the god metal.'

Also, dwarves would build too high because they already dug too low!

[Uzu Bash]

This has been suggested MANY times, but not recently, so I reckon it should be allowed to slide.

It was either that or necromancy. And you don't want that. Oh, nonono You. Do. Not. Want.

And so the derailment continues...

[Urist McUristy]

Or maybe attracting the notice of Flying Beasts in general.  Dragons, FBs, or things yet unknown (like the angels to which OP refers), could fall in this list.

Problems with it, though:  Right now, there is a max height above peak ground level which defaults to somethng around 20-z-evels.  That's not a huge buffer on flat terrain, though can give way to rather deep mountain embarks.  This limit is in place to reduce lag, I imagine, so it makes sense somewhat.  How high is too high?  The other problem I can see is better formed as a question, maybe:  What is the reward for building so high?  We have plenty of rewards for digging deep, so the risk can be worth !!FUN!!, bu why would anyone risk an arial onslaught if there was no gain?

Actually, you can set the maximum height above the peak to 100 I believe.

[Knigel]

The benefit to killing gods/angels should be that members of other civilizations will start to worship those that accomplish it.

[Di]

Right now blue stuff isn't reward for breaching hell, the opportunity to colonize it is. There should be some celestial plane all the way up, with its own unique features. Maybe hell features bottomless pits into which you can dump anything you don't need, there should be heavens pit, if someone falls through them he lands on the ground unscratched, or maybe just opposite, anything falling from skies creates huge explosion on impact. While former would enable paratroopers which would be hilarious, the latter would let nobility to earn some respect amongst fellow dwarves.

As for too hight definition, it can be fixed as say 50 levels above the highest point of embark, with currently maps having 100-140 z-levels no one would miss 30 levels of stone if depth is reduced.

And of course breaching skies shouldn't be just building 50 staircases. Maybe something like this:
-you build huge tower and discover the roof of the world. But you can't just dig through it.
-you search for the heavens gates just like the way to hell, and build your way there.
-possibly there should be other obstacles, i.e. the heavens gate is undigable ice wall that isn't affected by temperature of biomes on the ground, so you'd have to bring some magma to melt it.

[TolyK]

Celestium

Meltable by magma. The only way to get through the gates, actually. And then FUN.

I like paratroopers. A lot.

Or, rare foods and such that give dwarves (and others) that eat them special abilities. So the *spoilers* up there would get random traits, based off of the dead creatures around. Oh, and dead FB's would get up there too... but not be affected by stuff, and :shunned: by the *spoilers* up there.

me like.

[harborpirate]

I like the idea that building too high has consequences. Flying creatures like giant eagles, dragons, and phoenixes should be attracted to it. Rewards for getting up there: dropping stones (assuming damage from falling stuff is fixed), nourishing manna.