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I know the topics of rewall and filling channels has come up, but what about reflooring?

When rivers floot, there are sometimes squares created that transform from stone to "mud / dirt".  Most often you just get a muddy stone floor, which can be cleaned.  Sometimes though, you get a square that transforms to a "mud / dirt" spot.

I hear on the IRC chanel that this is due to a plant growing there and dieing, but i havent positively confirmed that (but neither do i have any reason to doubt it).

You cant build roads underground, and you cant smooth or clean the spot once it becomes dirt.  If you need a caravan path leading into your fortress, the only option seems to be to bridge over it, unless you have enough open space to engineer a cave-in on top of it, and then mine it back out.

So... is reflooring going to be addressed at the same time as rewalling and filling channels?

Thanks!

and before you complain about the durability of a glass mechanism, its not going to be any worse than a sandstone or chalk mechanism.

the point would be, mainly, so that you could have color coded levers.  It would be nice to open my green glass floodgate with a green lever, for example.  or to raise my light-stone bridge with a light-stone lever.  this makes it a bit easier to track what is what, especially if you have a central lever pulling room with about 10 levers in it, or something.

even still, the idea of an outlying county from which you could muster some soldiers is awesome.  also, the idea of seasonal laborers that come and go would be frikkin awesome.  imagine once your economy was going, dwarves would come in from outside to earn money by laboring and producing things, then they would leave and take their money with them, excepting that which they paid to rent out rooms and eat.

other dwarves might show up at different times to spend money in shops and things, like the caravan but on a smaller scale and bypassing the trade depot and going directly to shops.

as if that were not bloated enough, nobles might lay down mandates regarding mandatory terms of service, or other interactions with the suburban dwarves.

but i'd like to think of those suburban dwarves as living somewhat like hobbits.  they would still burrow into hills and things, but anything that they lacked the underground infrastructure for they could leave on the surface or travel to the fortress for.  much like the early seasons of the fortress, when you need to leave a couple workshops and stockpiles setup outside the cliff face.

roaring maggots are probably best left until rewalling and z-axis' are in.

designate your dining hall as a stockpile, and order a transfer between it and another stockpile.  once empty, undesignate.