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[Jackrabbit]

I have an area I need to wall of. The dwarf comes along and walls himself inside, everytime, without fail. I have a basic fix, which is building a door on the other side and forbidding it but really, why does he do that? Needs to be adressed

[Magua]

It's not everytime -- dwarves have a preference for how to approach a square, so they'll always approach it from (I believe) the west, working their way counter clockwise until they get to northwest. 

Also, as an intermediate fix, dwarves can deconstruct in 8 directions, but will only build walls in 4.  If you're rescuing a stuck dwarf, deconstruct a wall so that he moves out diagonally, and then you can rebuild it and know that he won't just wall himself in.  Alternatively, simply leave a diagonal path open to be walled in last.

(Yes, it's highly annoying.)

[flabort]

in my experience:
W, E, N, S, NW, NE, SW, SE.

west over east.
north over south.
west-east over north-south.
straight over diagonal.

they always do that in my fortresses.

[Jackrabbit]

It was pretty awesome though when my peasant boxed himself in next to lava and was pulled in by imps.

[Draco18s]

in my experience:
W, E, N, S, NW, NE, SW, SE.

west over east.
north over south.
west-east over north-south.
straight over diagonal.

they always do that in my fortresses.

Hey now, I came up with that.  It's on the wiki.

[Random832]

in my experience:
W, E, N, S, NW, NE, SW, SE.

west over east.
north over south.
west-east over north-south.
straight over diagonal.

they always do that in my fortresses.

Hey now, I came up with that.  It's on the wiki.

Where? I don't see it linked from any of the pages about wall construction

[Draco18s]

Why, on the task it was first discovered with.

Mining

[flabort]

sorry, i didn't notice the wiki page, i usually only use it to check which tags i can use.