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[PaperJack]

Make dorfs like multi-z spanning rooms, perhaps by giving the dwarf a happy thought ("Urist McBob has admired the architecture of a room recently") or by making it increase the room's value.

[Grimlocke]

I agree with this one. Currently I make multi z-level rooms just because I like them, but it would indeed be nice if the room value would be influenced as well.

It cant be all that hard to implement as well. The room size thing we have now would only need to be able to add z-level below/above, and the building selection would need to stay with the building when yo change z-level view.

[ArPharazon]

It would be a slight headache to need any more than 2 layers though, wouldn't it? Unless we had ropes or AI-placed scaffolds.

[PaperJack]

It would be a slight headache to need any more than 2 layers though, wouldn't it? Unless we had ropes or AI-placed scaffolds.

I did a 10z level spanning room with 3x3 pillars around just because it looks awesome.

[lucusLoC]

I thought we were getting rope ladders in this release?

[Bricks]

I thought we were getting rope ladders in this release?

Hopefully.  It's in the underground section, but Toady hasn't seemed to approach it yet.

I'd like to see a number of improvements to the channeling AI before this was implemented, along with new construction tools, like the aforementioned ladders/ropes, and scaffolding.

[Warlord255]

Query; How easy would it be to get a free AWESOMEROOM by making a room on a bottomless pit, thereby exploiting its raw surface area for value?

[Stormrage]

Query; How easy would it be to get a free AWESOMEROOM by making a room on a bottomless pit, thereby exploiting its raw surface area for value?

A chasm, a giant cave spider and other hostile creatures should definitely boost the value. After all, who WOULDN'T want to live in a bottomless pit filled with exotic, dangerous creatures and, well, A BOTTOMLESS PIT.

[RedWarrior0]

Query; How easy would it be to get a free AWESOMEROOM by making a room on a bottomless pit, thereby exploiting its raw surface area for value?

A chasm, a giant cave spider and other hostile creatures should definitely boost the value. After all, who WOULDN'T want to live in a bottomless pit filled with exotic, dangerous creatures and, well, A BOTTOMLESS PIT.

Acrophobes, for one. Also, arachnophobes, nakedmoledogophobes, antmanophobes, ratmanophobes, and phobophobes.

Nobles, on the other hand, would have so much FUN with this

[Christes]

Toady, any though of adding z-levels to rooms?

Actually, more generally, how plausible is it to make all designation-type features work over z-levels?

The way rooms currently flow out, it would take a bit of a rewrite to do Z rooms -- for instance, if you wanted to go up a level to check out how your flow is going, it might focus on a different building, and the whole flow system is a bit uncomfortable in 3D.  There are just some little things.

It wouldn't be that hard with designations, since they use the rectangular format.  Some of the newer rectangular tools work over Z levels, but I haven't updated designations yet.

[BlckKnght]

RedWarior0's joking post suggests to me another way to encourage the digging of multi-level rooms: make some dwarves claustrophobic.  They would feel unhappy about spending time in rooms with only one z-level, especially if they were not very wide either.

Your grand dining room doesn't have a high vaulted ceiling?  Expect tantrums!

[Bricks]

I think dwarf ethics should shun/banish the claustrophobic.  They are a shame to their family and their people.

Seriously, how does one inject aesthetic sense into DF?  If a room is 2x1 but 100 z-levels tall, it shouldn't be considered an awe-inspiring masterpiece so much as a cyclopean horror.

[winner]

I think dwarf ethics should shun/banish the claustrophobic.  They are a shame to their family and their people.

Seriously, how does one inject aesthetic sense into DF?  If a room is 2x1 but 100 z-levels tall, it shouldn't be considered an awe-inspiring masterpiece so much as a cyclopean horror.

You could have the dwarves analyse rooms the same way people do "How safe would I be if something was out to get me?"

[Silverionmox]

I think dwarf ethics should shun/banish the claustrophobic.  They are a shame to their family and their people.

Seriously, how does one inject aesthetic sense into DF?  If a room is 2x1 but 100 z-levels tall, it shouldn't be considered an awe-inspiring masterpiece so much as a cyclopean horror.

There's no accounting for taste.. Every oddity has its prestige value, anyway. Though rooms like that will naturally have other limits that make them less valuable: there's less floorspace, room for furniture; heating and ventilation problems, cleaning problems, vermin, etc.

[lucusLoC]

.... The magma hatch in the ceiling...