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[ICMB]

I generally like to keep my dwarves underground, but when they do come out they always get terrible sun nausea.  So, I dug out a room just below surface level, channelled out the roof, and put in green glass "floors" on top, thus making a room that was "inside", but had sunlight.  I made this my primary meeting hall so that dwarves would all spend a lot of time there.  The squares within that room are described as "Inside Light Above Ground"

Despite this, my dwarves still get sun nausea when they go outside, and when I tell dwarves they are not to go outside, they cancel being in the atrium.  That is, I get all the downsides of the room being considered "above ground" without the benefit of getting my dwarves better acclimated to the sun.

It looks like two bugs to me:

Dwarves consider a glass-roofed room to be outside.
Dwarves don't get sun acclimatization from being in a glass-roofed room

[mineditall]

dwarves in previous .27 version would become sick if they spent their whole lives indoors then you forced them outside for fresh air once

they will get used to the outside if you force them outside often

all of my dwarves see the sun/sky atleast once per season

the only way to make a dark subterranean structure is to dig out the rocks
they must be from inside the earth to make it "dark subterranean"

[ICMB]

Yes, I understand the sun sickness.  My goal was to create a safe area that was "not outside" but got sunlight so they would not get the sickness.

What I got was the opposite on both sides.  It's considered outside but also does not seem to be considered "sunny".

[Shadowlord]

As a side note, something is odd about the inside/light/etc stuff in general.

I have an antechamber outside my main entrance which was constructed "outside" using constructed walls, and constructed rock 'floors' on the level above it, to act as a roof. There is no way for light to get inside the antechamber through the roof, walls, or closed doors, and yet the entire thing shows up as Inside - Light - Above Ground. It should probably be Dark instead of Light since the artificial roof is made of rock.

The level above, on top of the roof, is correctly shown as Outside - Light - Above Ground.

[valcon]

all my stuff is outside, i only use the underground for gathering stone and stockpiles =P  my dwarves loooove that stuff

you'd think though that on the converse, they'd become disoriented/blind underground

/shrug

[GauHelldragon]

crazy

[ November 20, 2007: Message edited by: GauHelldragon ]