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it is a pretty good suggestion though.

I don't think this will come up as much anymore but "be able to make mechanisms out of metal"

Say "I really like this idea, it show [link to previous thread] in a new light"
that way the topics aren't separated and you haven't scared off a new user.

Or you could have moderators that merged duplicate threads but that would take so much work if you did that to the whole forum that I don't really want to think about it.

how about the simple designation "remove ceiling"

you are right, I was just thinking of the way a minesweeper solver did it.

Such an awesome idea, I'd love to see you pull this off. A functioning binary counter would be brilliant, but it seems like it would take a huge amount of space to count up to even a modest number. I'm trying to think of a recording method that uses stones, but nothing occurs to me immediately. Dispensing units of water into a makeshift graduated cylinder could record fairly high values, but the evaporation problem seems to make it a no-go.

just make the drain a layer above the bottom so there is never water only 1/7 deep

Quote from: winner on February 08, 2009, 12:01:16 pm

Logic gates like numberabbey has.

Or slightly divergent, a program that takes images and urns them into digging instructions

I actually tried this yesterday evening. Sadly AppleScript is a horrible language and i could not find anything readily available on a vanilla os x to read a pixel's color from an image file in "Image Event"s

I am currently thinking about simply creating a native os x app, where one could create templates on a grid or in a scripted fashion (probably python).

I think the most attractive templates are parametrized ones. The circle is a good example. I have created a small script for my default staircase design with alternating up and down stairs like this:

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#< >#
#< >#
#< >#
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<> - stairs
 - floor
# - wall

and am currently working on variations of that (like orientation) and the ability to input the number of levels you want the staircases to go (up and/or down).

Since i usually use relatively strict layout i will probably create simple layouts as well. What i am not so sure about is digging channels. In my experience i am quite careful with digging channels and do this in at least 2 stages.

For a bunker i could imagine a multi-phase template. First the digging, second some channeling and furniture placement, third some more channeling. I am not sure how to smartly tell df via actionscript which furniture or material (e.g. walls) to use. I would love an easy way to say "a wall of granite from here 10 tiles to the north".

if you could make your program read[ie match string] the materials from the list then it would have the same effect.