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This has probably already been requested, but could we please get the space bar back as the 'cancel' or 'back' button on every screen?  and also since the space bar doesn't work there is currently no way to go back from the embark screen so once you hit start playing and pick a map you are stuck there until you embark the fortress at which point you can abandon (esc does not work on this screen anymore either).

if there is a ramp or stair case they should get out of the water when they need to, but it sounds like you stationed them there.  In order to spar the dwarfs have to be off duty and in a barrack, so you would need to assign a barracks in the half-filled room in order for them to spar in there.

So I had an idea to build a fort in a completely flat area and tunnel out a slope starting at least 20 tiles from the fort, going one tile closer each Z level down.  In the end creating this:
side view

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etc, only much, much bigger.  the pillar in the center will be atleast 25x25

There would be a stretch of land connecting the pillar on one side to the mainland, part of which would eventually be removed and replaced with a bridge.  The fortress would be contained in the pillar, and then on balconies sticking out of the sides if expansion is needed.  ideally I would like to fill the bottom z level or two of the pit with magma, but depending on the map that may not be possible.  getting a flat map with no auqafier, and some kind of farmable layer and/or a brook at the edge I could eventually use for irrigation would be the priority. 

This last square needs to be channeled out in this pit, I guess I'll stand right on top of it to do it...  hey look a chasm!

Probably not since, as mentioned, the game keeps track of the contents of tiles that are off screen already, it just has to draw more of them now, but since DF doesn't use much in the way of graphics processing it shouldn't drag down fps unless you have a REALLY sllllooooowwwww computer.

um... actually the OP was asking for open source for the UI.  that's where this whole argument came from...  you know from the OP, who started the thread and asked for open source...

So basically what you're saying is:

"hey toady, I know you like to work alone and that's cool, I think you make good arguments for not involving outside people in the project, but you should do it anyway, oh and while you're at it (and while I don't know anything about the game's code) why don't you make this huge epic change to the way the game works in order to accomodate the people you already said you don't want to working on the UI.  Don't be scared Toady, it's just exactly what you DON'T want to happen."