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My fortresses typically have compact, distinct rooms and/or narrow, neat hallways. I usually don't feel the need to change this.

83 (38.4%)

My fortresses usually end up pretty closed in, but I'm usually not happy with it.

12 (5.6%)

My fortresses typically have sprawling, expansive chambers (walls and specific rooms optional). I am generally happy with this.

46 (21.3%)

My fortresses usually end up with many large, open sections, but I often find myself wishing I could somehow undig stone.

14 (6.5%)

N/A; My fortresses are typically a more-or-less even mix according to my taste, built above ground/in the caverns/at the circus, and/or Mr Frog sucks at making polls.

35 (16.2%)

Evenly-mixed, but I'm cursed and the parts that I want closed-in turn out spacious and the parts I want open end up all claustrophobic.

26 (12%)

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[Eric Blank]

I never liked huge, open spaces except for specific purposes (23x23 dining rooms and stockpiles, sometimes an open pit as the central, distinguishing feature.) If I'm quarrying stone or digging up a vein, I like to repurpose the space for something, usually upperclass bedrooms or raw materials stockpiles for nearby workshops.

hallways are always 3 tiles wide, I like to arrange workshops by category or function into 7x7 spaces (4 each.), or 11x11, more recently.

[King DZA]

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It seems that even why I try to keep things tight and compact, I always end up growing and spreading out. The same is true for my halls. I just can't seem to separate myself from my love of sprawling cave-cities.

[Fishbulb]

I'll see your production floor and raise you Relicstorm's main floor:

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I like roomy forts.

[peskyninja]

I don't know why but I HATE large rooms, I preffer a huge fort of small, narrow corridors leading to tiny rooms.

[andreus015]

Gimicky shapes get me

[Doughnut189]

I think

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[Eктωρ]

My fortresses are are always like, there's an entrance hall, where the traps are and stuff, then there is the trade depot, a huge hall that's my main dining area, it is encircled by living quarters, and connected to food warehouses and production centers. Further down are the craft areas.

[slink]

Not knowing whether a 3-wide corridor is expansive and wide, or not a waste of space, I opted to claim that I use a happy mix.  My corridors are all 5-wide.  Ramps are 5-wide to match the corridors.  Up-down staircases are 3x3 to fit inside the junctions of corridors without blocking them visually.  Mining follows veins.  Water pipes are 1-wide.

Basic rooms are 11 x 11.  These are cut into 5 x 5 rooms for residences.  Large storerooms may be 2 to 4 times as large.  Dining room is about 9 times larger.  Farming areas are dug to match the soil available.  Walled-in outdoor areas tend to be as large as the terrain allows.

[Eктωρ]

That is hella expansive. A 200 dwarf fortress needs 4 wide corridors at best. I keep mine at 3 wide. Also 11x11 rooms are too much, 1x3 is enough, my rooms are all 3x2 or 3x3. Nobles get fancy stuff though.

[slink]

I feel the 5-wide corridor fits best visually with the rest of my design.  I like the 11 x 11 rooms because there is room for either a decent-sized stockpile or the workshop(s) and stockpile(s) for some kind of industry.  While the 5 x 5 commoner residences are larger than they need to be, that won't hurt anything until there is a functional economy.   

[Powder Miner]

I have narrow hallways except for sometimes a main hallway so stuff doesn't get congested, and some small rooms but mostly a few huuuuuuuuuuuge rooms that I stuff all the workshops I can in, or beds I can, or tables and chairs, etc.

[Cellmonk]

I think

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these

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for themselves.

You are SO cooldwarfy. I think this has inspired me to try my hand at bilateral symmetry.

EDIT: hmmm... time to start a game with 7 proficient miners.

[kisame12794]

I prefer compact spiraling fractals centered around a large 3x3 staircase. It is a very Zen-like feeling.

[Itnetlolor]

I've adapted a more vault-tec style building method with my halls.

I primarily operate with 3-wide halls. If I'm expecting really high traffic, then they would expand to 5-wide with 3-wide branches, and off any other 3-wide (branch) I include 1-wide branches and the respective rooms for that hall. Optionally, I would use 2-wide halls if, let's say housing, gets a little cramped and distant. But I usually try to keep distances short while using 1 Z-level as much as I can.

[King DZA]

I'll see your production floor and raise you Relicstorm's main floor:

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I like roomy forts.

Nice. Very nice. But I doubt you waste as much room as me with your....

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