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[EBannion]

I tend to build out rooms and then smooth them, Eventually I tend to get annoyed with my legendary miners leaving so much stone in my hallways that I have to assign burrows to stop them from mining out rooms instead of mining ore.

I also hate building on the surface, it takes too much time to assign the building of all those walls...

Were you aware that you can make a wall up to 10 squares long in a straight line using either u/m or h/k? You still need to do at least one designation per direction, but a normal room takes 4 wall commands rather than (for a 3x3 room with one-thick walls) 13?

It's still a lot, but it is a lot fewer.

[Squirrelloid]

I tend to build out rooms and then smooth them, Eventually I tend to get annoyed with my legendary miners leaving so much stone in my hallways that I have to assign burrows to stop them from mining out rooms instead of mining ore.

I also hate building on the surface, it takes too much time to assign the building of all those walls...

Were you aware that you can make a wall up to 10 squares long in a straight line using either u/m or h/k? You still need to do at least one designation per direction, but a normal room takes 4 wall commands rather than (for a 3x3 room with one-thick walls) 13?

It's still a lot, but it is a lot fewer.

2 actually.

You can designate a solid block of rooms, and then remove the tiles you don't want with q.  Ok, you might not count mass-removal with 'q' as one command, but its a lot easier than designating new wall strips for small rooms.  (Becomes impractical for larger rooms).

[FrisianDude]

Mined. Usually like this

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So just a three-tile room with a bed and a door.

[Naz]

I mine out rooms and I always make sure I'm down far enough to be in a stone layer. This is entirely because I'm completely OCD about EVERYTHING being engraved.I also leave ore and gems where they are if mining them isn't part of the design. The higher value room is nice and what's more badass than half your room being made of sapphires that have been engraved with such skill it makes a grown dwarf cry...lava

[EBannion]

2 actually.

You can designate a solid block of rooms, and then remove the tiles you don't want with q.  Ok, you might not count mass-removal with 'q' as one command, but its a lot easier than designating new wall strips for small rooms.  (Becomes impractical for larger rooms).

Oh, hey. Even better! I don't usually make whole rooms, I am usually just repairing holes in my walls where some valuable stone intersected my constructions, so I hadn't thought of trying that.

[Kassil]

Mined, unless I'm feeling insane and building an above-ground area (which I sometimes do, to stuff nobles into.)

[Mrhappyface]

I mine out the walls for the commoners' bedrooms, but I build the nobles' and legendaries' walls out of silver.

[krenshala]

I mine out individual rooms. Once a block of rooms is complete, I will go back and mine out any gems/ore left behind. Then I go back and fill in the holes using stone blocks that match the host rock. Only then do I smooth and engrave.

Wait ... you are able to smooth a wall constructed of rough blocks?! 

[wuphonsreach]

Mined, smoothed, and possibly engraved.

The only time I will construct a room's wall is if there is a mineral vein running through those tiles, in which case I will dig out the ore, then place a constructed wall in that tile.  (Ideally using rock blocks, but I'm generally not picky unless it's a noble room.)