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[SpiralDimentia]

My irritation at my fortress not looking the same calls out for help. I recently finished my hospital [carving,smoothing,wells.] and was ready to fill the resevoir below of water. There was a problem [I have no idea how it happened] that caused me to be unable to close the floodgate in time, though, and I got a bit of extra water. At first everything was fine, but the first dwarf to take a drink unleashed a torrent of water inside this room, muddying the stone. Now a large area around my wells is brown, which is not the uniform gray of the rest of the fortress. This bothers me to no end.

Is there a way to fix this? They only seem interested in getting blood up, not this mud crap. It hasn't dried so far so I don't think it will.

[Mister Always]

Build floors over it, then deconstruct the floors.

[SpiralDimentia]

Oh dear god, my minor case of OCD is eternally grateful.

[Mister Always]

I have the exact same thing, man. When I dig out my dining rooms (which tend to be pretty huge) and there's like, a vein of tetrahedrite running through the differently coloured stone, I go "FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUU-"

And then floors.

[SpiralDimentia]

Yeah. If I'm digging out a close-to-the-surface-completely-stone fort and I suddenly hit a nice, big chunk of DIRT.

I rage. I rage hard.

[DrKillPatient]

It'd be nice if you could use dye to change the colour of stone, for symmetry purposes.

[SpiralDimentia]

It'd be nice if you could use dye to change the colour of stone, for symmetry purposes.

I support this idea. It would give me a reason to actually use my dyers shop, or to buy dye from elves. mysteriously discover it in my trade depot.

[Mister Always]

It'd be nice if you could use dye to change the colour of stone, for symmetry purposes.

I support this idea. It would give me a reason to actually use my dyers shop, or to buy dye from elves. mysteriously discover it in my trade depot.

Dwarves don't use dye. What are you, an elf?

[Quietust]

Building and deconstructing floors works, but it destroys engravings and also gets rid of valuable mineral floors, replacing them with rough layer stone. A better way to remove mud is to place furniture on the tile and then remove it. Animal traps are quite useful for this, since you can build them pretty much anywhere (including on stairs and ramps), though most other furniture (e.g. weapon racks and armor stands) can be placed/removed by anybody with Furniture Hauling enabled.

[Lagslayer]

It'd be nice if you could use dye to change the colour of stone, for symmetry purposes.

I support this idea. It would give me a reason to actually use my dyers shop, or to buy dye from elves. mysteriously discover it in my trade depot.

Dwarves don't use dye. What are you, an elf?

Think of it this way. Elves rarely have better than Rope Reed Fiber Sock, while dwarves can have «☼Rope Reed Fiber Sock☼». Whatever elves can do, dwarves can do !!better!!.

[Stormfeather]

It'd be nice if you could use dye to change the colour of stone, for symmetry purposes.

I support this idea. It would give me a reason to actually use my dyers shop, or to buy dye from elves. mysteriously discover it in my trade depot.

Dwarves don't use dye. What are you, an elf?

But if you're using it on the walls/floor, then it becomes PAINT! And painting the area with your enemy's blood and intestines is an extremely dwarfy pastime, so other painting should be okay, too.

[evileeyore]

It'd be nice if you could use dye to change the colour of stone, for symmetry purposes.

I support this idea. It would give me a reason to actually use my dyers shop, or to buy dye from elves. mysteriously discover it in my trade depot.

Dwarves don't use dye. What are you, an elf?

But if you're using it on the walls/floor, then it becomes PAINT! And painting the area with your enemy's blood and intestines is an extremely dwarfy pastime, so other painting should be okay, too.

It's more Dwarfy to paint with stone and magma though.

[Corona688]

Yeah. If I'm digging out a close-to-the-surface-completely-stone fort and I suddenly hit a nice, big chunk of DIRT.

I rage. I rage hard.

Why not make farms?

[Naryar]

POUR MAGMA ON IT

Actually I do believe magma removes mud, so I might be serious

[SpiralDimentia]

Yeah. If I'm digging out a close-to-the-surface-completely-stone fort and I suddenly hit a nice, big chunk of DIRT.

I rage. I rage hard.

Why not make farms?

Because I normally already have a 10x10 chunk set aside for a farm. I mean when I'm a layer or two below ground, where my main fortress will be, and the whole thing is stone, and im digging out the dining hall and... POW. Nice patch of dirt against the walls. I can mine them out and replace with constructed walls, but... it's not the same.