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[Xenos]

I haven't done an above ground fortress in 31.XX due to the blood issue.

that was fixed in .16

No it wasn't. Blood can only be removed in a few ways:

1) Rain drops hitting the tile the blood is on.
2) A dwarf cleans it up, which is very rare and difficult to control.
3) Deconstructing and rebuilding the walls/floor that are splattered.

It seems like number one is bugged for me, I never see rain wash blood off the ground in any of my forts, but I do witness it rinse the gunk off my dwarves and animals resulting in big piles of blood.  (yes rain spreads blood in my fort, not removes it)

2)its like a casino!
3)roads also work for cleaning large areas.  dirt roads have the benefit of just going away on their own!

[Zrk2]

Woah, dirt roads just go away? How does this work?

[Xenos]

Woah, dirt roads just go away? How does this work?

By dorfs walking on them.  It takes a while but they gradually wear down and disappear.  It can be useful at times (stop those pesky trees from clogging the stockpile layer until you get the stone blocks built to permanently pave it.)

[darkflagrance]

Another way to remove blood might be to evaporate it by temporarily setting the boiling point to 10015 and turning on temperature. Don't leave it this way for too long though.

[Herbiie]

Suggestion:

Dorfs clean up blood/vomit/Stuff in their Burrows the same way they clean up inside proper fortresses.

[MarineMorton]

Plus they dont spread it around when they walk anymore unless you turn that option on in the init file

[Shoku]

They still seem to get rather serious piles of blood all up and down a hallway even with that option off, it just isn't nearly so prone to turning corners and spreading into every other part of your fort.

[LordSlowpoke]

Well, to speak of aboveground forts, I always imagined that a dwarven architect would take a mountain, and order miners to collapse a few (thousand) areas so it turns into some kind of... well, what we can call a modern human settlement these days. Magma moat, 20 z-level city wall, and within? New York. Except that the skyscrapers are rock and glass, not steel...

[Askot Bokbondeler]

not steel...

why not? ever heard of limestone layers?

[LordSlowpoke]

not steel...

why not? ever heard of limestone layers?

Steel can't be engraved.

[Askot Bokbondeler]

can glass?

[Zaerosz]

No, but you can't see through rock.

Dwarves can't see through glass either, but would you rather have stone windows or glass windows?

[Askot Bokbondeler]

steel windows

[Hyndis]

Whats the temperature limit before heat damage starts to happen?

I think embarking in a hot or scorching environment with blood set to evaporate in a low enough temperature that it will vanish shortly after hitting the air may work.

However if the temperature is too high dwarves will spontaneously explode.

[ChairmanPoo]

I made an Above Ground fortress out of marble in .14.

Problems I found were that short of flooding the fortress there was no way of cleaning up the blood etc. burrows & orders took care of cleaning up remains etc. inside but when disaster struck & a goblin ambush killed almost all of my fortress, the courtyard & workshops were covered in blood that no one cleaned up. This might not be a problem with your way

I've found a fast and efficient way (if you have spare workers) to clean blood and fluids: deconstruct the constructed floors, and construct them again. If fluid is not on a constructed floor, construct a floor over it, and remove.

At least this does clean blood pools and the like.

I cannot promise that your dwarves wont die while building the floor if they touch poisonous blood.