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[slothen]

building your dining room in soil.  What are you, a kobold?

You can dig out the non-matching walls and construct regular ones if you want.

[Lich180]

Yeah, just use (d) (t) to designate those giant mushrooms for cutting. Enjoy your multicolored logs!

[BoredVirulence]

You can build floors, if you really want to...
I would just dig a new dining hall deeper. Now you have a tree farm, and that's always good to have.

[proxn_punkd]

I would just dig a new dining hall deeper. Now you have a tree farm, and that's always good to have.

Tree farm and underground livestock pasture, if you're into grazing livestock at all.

/used to have a cave system full of capybara herds

[Eotyrannus]

I would just dig a new dining hall deeper. Now you have a tree farm, and that's always good to have.

Tree farm and underground livestock pasture, if you're into grazing livestock at all.

/used to have a cave system full of capybara herds

FILL YOUR DINING ROOM WITH ALPACAS.

[Solon64]

Note to self: OMG I forgot a magma plumbing system in my latest mountain citadel! What kind of dwarf am I!? Oh right, I was dealing with dehydration which led to premature opening of caverns which led to maulings by Giant Olms every other week. Once I sort out the giant olm plague ill get around to getting hot, fresh magma available.  Friggin giant olms...

On topic: tree farm! Although I like the periodic purge-by-magma idea too.

[Hamsmagoo]

In his defense, I had a dirt dining room for TEN game years before successfully pumping through the aquifer.  I called that whole z-level "dust town" in homage to Dragon Age.

Obviously, this guy's dwarves are hippies.  Don't hate.  They're gonna save the world... once they run out of weed.

[Xinael]

Magma purge won't actually work in all cases, though, I don't think. Nether cap wood can't change temperature, which means it's magma-proof. Probably true before you chop them down too.

[Scruffy]

Those big shrooms in your picture, those aren't your normal fungus.

Those are the size of trees. Get rid of them first.

*cough* They are trees.

What would be dorfier than dining in an unfurnished room full of fungus and giant towercaps? Dorfy

Anyway, I think that building your dining room in clay layer is a bad idea. You are missing on alot of dwarf happiness that you would get from an engraved dining room and most importantly: Those damn plants and trees just keep popping up and blocking the place unless you floor it.

[hiroshi42]

Magma purge won't actually work in all cases, though, I don't think. Nether cap wood can't change temperature, which means it's magma-proof. Probably true before you chop them down too.

Trees don't burn period.
More on topic, I have my dining rooms and sleeping quarters either in the soil layers or above ground.  My general advice to dealing with cave moss or grass is to ignore it or if you must have uniformity, obsidian cast your rooms. 

[Loud Whispers]

Trees don't burn period.

Adventurers can set them on fire.

[Sutremaine]

Nether cap wood can't change temperature, which means it's magma-proof.

The game skips magma safety checks for certain categories of items, presuming them to be unsafe (note that you cannot make a furnace from nethercap logs, even though their fixed temperature makes them in theory both fire-safe and magma-safe).

Nethercap minecarts at least will disintegrate in magma. Based on earlier tests done with green glass, I think loose nethercap items aren't safe but buildings made from nethercap items are.

[Magistrum]

The game skips magma safety checks for certain categories of items, presuming them to be unsafe (note that you cannot make a furnace from nethercap logs, even though their fixed temperature makes them in theory both fire-safe and magma-safe).

Nethercap minecarts at least will disintegrate in magma. Based on earlier tests done with green glass, I think loose nethercap items aren't safe but buildings made from nethercap items are.

This means that items can't have fixed temperature?

[BoredVirulence]

Nether cap wood can't change temperature, which means it's magma-proof.

The game skips magma safety checks for certain categories of items, presuming them to be unsafe (note that you cannot make a furnace from nethercap logs, even though their fixed temperature makes them in theory both fire-safe and magma-safe).

Nethercap minecarts at least will disintegrate in magma. Based on earlier tests done with green glass, I think loose nethercap items aren't safe but buildings made from nethercap items are.

Sad news indeed. I started a fort (in a slightly modded DF) with the intention of creating items from a modded material that behaves like nethercap. In particular I wanted to shear fur from magma crabs to make fire proof clothing (the hair has a specified temperature like nethercap).

Well, I'll see how it goes anyway.

[Sutremaine]

This means that items can't have fixed temperature?

Items can have fixed temperatures, it's just that the game doesn't read them in some cases (which is, admittedly, not useful...). For example, if you create a fire imp in the arena and give it some nethercap equipment, the equipment will resist the lava so long as it's in the imp's inventory being held or worn. Drop it, and the game loses track of its temperature status and treats it like generic wood, which is assumed to not resist magma.

You can have fireproof clothing to protect dwarves (don't forget to do something about those exposed, fat-containing toes and fingers), but it won't protect itself.