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Digging Massive Vertical Stairways Without Getting Carpal Tunnel
Lord Dakoth:
For a while in the new version, I designated up/down 1*1 stairways tile by tile. Designate, go down one level, repeat two hundred times. I discovered a trick to QUICKLY and PAINLESSLY dig a large vertical staircase, even over hundreds of Z-levels. I thought I'd share it with the community.
1. Make sure the [MOUSE] option is set to YES in your init.txt file. (YES is the default value.)
2. Open the designations menu, and hover the mouse pointer over the tile where you want your staircase to be. Make sure that you won't run into any problematic features (i.e. caves or magma) beforehand. Select (i) Up/Down staircase.
3. Hold down the LEFT mouse button. (Clicking the mouse on a tile with "Dig" selected will mark the tile for digging.)
4. Without releasing the LMB, Hold down "SHIFT" and "." (move down Z-levels.) As you continuously scroll downwards through Z-levels, the mouse pointer will designate EVERY TILE in the shaft as an up/down staircase.
5. ???
6. Profit!
Torgan:
Sweet, didn't realise that.
Alexei403:
This is totally sweet. :D
Yay for mouse input!
Foxbyte:
It's even easier if you change your z-level keys to something that don't require shift.
Village_Idiot:
Awesome! With the new Z-levels it always takes ages to designate a stairway.
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