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[Entropy]

Serious problem - dwarfs removing constructed floors while standing on top of them.  Please, can dwarfs stand -next- to a constructed floor tile while they remove it.  Preferably pulling up the building material next to them so it doesnt squish someone standing below as well.

I hate watching the idiots disconnect the floor they are standing on and plummet.

Edit:  On a related note - can we have the ability to zoom to the location of an announcement?  As in find out exactly where a particular dwarf has died?

[ November 21, 2007: Message edited by: Entropy ]

[Core Xii]

This basically makes it impossible to remove floors currently.

[Red Jackard]

You can try designating it as a restricted area to help with that, but yeah - it's a problem.

[Red Jackard]

Same thing happens with stairs - natural ones they will channel safely from below, but for constructed stairs a dwarf will climb to the top and take it apart underneath him.

[Jreengus]

dont ya know, destroyng floors and stairs whilst not stood on them is for wimps and elves, its all about the adrenaline rush from falling 5 floors

[TotalPigeon]

I agree, I requested this change somewhere else as well. Note that you can construct stairs leading up to the bottom of the floor so they fall onto them if yoou really need to remove a floor... it just takes forever if the floor to be removed is high and has a substantial area

[Core Xii]

Falling on stairs doesn't differ in my experience from falling on floor.

[Red Jackard]

quote:Originally posted by TotalPigeon:
<STRONG>Note that you can construct stairs leading up to the bottom of the floor so they fall onto them if yoou really need to remove a floor... it just takes forever if the floor to be removed is high and has a substantial area</STRONG>

Dwarves can and will fall down these stairs when removing them.

[TotalPigeon]

I did something to get around it... maybe I put a floor underneath the tile to be removed, and built stairs up to let me get to that level. Can't remember now, but the dwarf only fell one floor (no blood or anything)

[Core Xii]

Hey what about building a wall on the level below? Floors can be built on walls last time I checked.

You can't designate a channel over an artificial floor, can you?

[Name Lips]

My workaround is to remove only non-contiguous spaces. For example, if I had a row of floor I wanted to remove ("channel"), I'd do it like this:

1212121212121212

First I'd flag all the "1" tiles for removal. After they're all complete, I'd flag all the "2" tiles.

[Core Xii]

Wrong topic Name Lips, read more carefully. This is about dwarfs removing constructed floors while standing on them.

[Jreengus]

since you lot have some problem with your dwarves falling to their deaths i will share with you my wisdom, just build some 10x10 bridges 1 z-level down you dwarves will only be stunned, once done decinstruct the bridges and continue on with your living (but wimpy) dwarves

[Core Xii]

My dwarfs have nearly always acquired an injury from a single story fall. Admittably a mild one, but an injury nonetheless.

[KiTA]

I particularly loved losing random children to floor destruction when I was trying to un-do a few squares of floor on top of a magma pit.  

I figure this is a no brainer kinda thing that will be fixed soonish though.