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Similar workshops can be grouped together for easier checking on and doors can be locked should a moody dwarfs wishes be unmet.

Design ideas under stairs modern design. From dwarf fortress wiki. From dwarf fortress wiki. Below you can see a piece from around the central staircase to see how the design should start.

Dwarf fortress losing is fun. Stairs allow creatures to travel across z levels. You change elevation and you also move over 1 square.

This is so that above ground dwarves like tree cutters dont have to travel far to reach some sleep. I use a 3x3 grid of updown stairs for the dwarves and reserve the ramps for the wagon depot access. They can be dug out or constructed.

Up stairs need to be built below down stairs. Ramps give a dwarf two movement squares at the cost of one movement point. One efficient arrangement is to place output stockpiles directly above or below your workshops and connect them with stairs.

A spiral staircase wrapped around the central waterfall like a helix which ok i suppose makes this a central staircase design but you have to admit its pretty cool. You can use the build menu b c to construct them in an open tile using material you have already gatheredhowever a down or up stair will give you sufficient access to the adjacent level to build connecting stairs. Access and stockpiles are placed above and below the room.

At the center will be a 3x3 updown staircase where the up enters a tower with the military barracks and the down goes into the rest of the fortress. Updown stairs function as both up and down stairs at once. Its a 3 wide double helix.

I personally dont think that its very impressive and its harder to design a mass transit system with ramps. At every 4th level or so a spoked walkway radiated out to let dwarves access the rest of the fortress rather unsafe think sort of like the central shaft of the death star. Hey guys in my new attempts at creating an efficient fps friendly design im switching from the old staircase to a spiral ramp design the video starts low goes up then down.

Another common design is to carve out a 5x5 room and place the 3x3 workshop in the center leaving 16 surrounding tiles for input storage. Design strategies bedroom design. Stairs can be created in two different ways or a combination of them.

You can use the designations menu d to carve them out of a wall of unmined material see digging.