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That is some amazing architecture.  Well done.  Probably the most artistic megastructure I've seen.

The only other suggestion I can give is to do what I do when I need something made from a specific kind of stone.  Make a dedicated room with a single door exit, and place in that room a stockpile that only accepts that kind of stone and a mason's shop.  Make sure the stockpile is full of that specific stone and no other stone is in the room.  If he's going to be in there a while, maybe put a bed and some food and drink in too.  Draft a mason, station him in the room, and then lock the door.  Undraft him and set the job you want done on the mason's shop.  Don't let him out till the job is finished.  This is kludgey micro-managment, but it's the only way I've found to force something to be made out of a very specific stone.

I have used the stock page to forbid all stone except bauxite and I placed some bauxite near the shop.

I assume the shop is not made from bauxite.  You have therefore forbidden the stone used to make the mason's shop, which makes it unusable.  Unforbid the stone the shop is made from.

Quote from: immibis on March 11, 2010, 03:52:54 am

I thought bridges flung items randomly, not in the direction the bridge raised. In that case the items would be equally likely to go backwards, or hit some dwarf throwing other items in.

The thing is, if you keep pushing the items in one end and taking them off the other end - the net effect of random ebb and flow will still be stuff going the way you want it to go.

1/2 the time it goes to the right. If it goes to the left, it gets pushed back in. If it goes (fare enough) to the right you remove it from the system. Net result: stuff goes to the right.

I have a conveyor belt mechanism in Pagedslipped made from repeating bridges.  It's actually arranged as a series of sawtooth wells, each of which is a flat space 3 tiles long, followed by 4 rising steps, then a 4 tile fall to the next well.  All spaces are covered in retracting bridges, driven by a repeater.  The side view cutaway looks something like this:

......_......_......_......_......_......_......_......_
....._X....._X....._X....._X....._X....._X....._X....._X 
...._XX...._XX...._XX...._XX...._XX...._XX...._XX...._XX
..._XXX..._XXX..._XXX..._XXX..._XXX..._XXX..._XXX..._XXX
___XXXX___XXXX___XXXX___XXXX___XXXX___XXXX___XXXX___XXXX

Objects that fall into the mechanism spend a lot of time bouncing around randomly in the wells, but will occasionally make their way up the ramp and then fall into the next well.  Because of the way the mechanism is shaped objects cannot move backwards to the previous well, so over time the effect is to move everything in one direction through the conveyor.  It is however very slow, took a long time to make, and causes a massive FPS drain from all the flying objects.  It's really more of a nifty exercise in pointless automation than something actually useful.

Sometimes you never get a liason.  He dies in worlgen or something, and you never get a replacement.

Magma spawns as random tiles of 7/7 magma which appear above the current level of the magma in the pipe, if the magma in the pipe is less than its maximum level.  Magma can also spawn at lower levels in and around the pipe if there are open spaces below the surface of the magma that are within the area of the magma pipe.  I have never seen any evidence of magma pressurizing from below and flowing upwards.

Could the bottom level of walls be made indestructible, through cheating, and have all walls above survive the "cave-in"?

Cave-ins don't work that way - falling objects fall as separate blocks, not as continuous structures.  Constructed walls and floors deconstruct into the materials they were made from.  If you have lava you could cast an obsidian tower and drop it, but any floors will be destroyed, and walls may split apart and leave gaps.

Actually the little hole is where I am going to run the magma pipe that will be used to fill the hollow clear glass capstone with magma.