Floor covered stairs problem

[Permutation]

Ok, obviously I'm new and I made a bit of an issue for myself. I was trying to make a nice tavern and while putting floors down they covered a set of stairs (I figured they would just build around them, but like good little dwarves they listened to my order and just built right over them)

Of course while doing this they seemed to have trapped carol under them, so that's cool... Is there a way to build around stairs without covering them or do I need to leave that space blank?

[TacticalFaux]

You can just deconstruct the floor over the stairs. For future orders, you can just manually mark it around the stairs.

I've used floor to cover unwanted stairs in certain sections lol.

[Permutation]

Ya.... Poor carol didn't know what was going on till it was time to sleep. Ok thanks for the help!

[The Real Zizmon]

Same problem, but it's to the entrance for my fortress. I tried deconstructing but nothing happens. I tried building an adjacent staircase and nothing happens either...

[TacticalFaux]

Originally posted by Permutation:

Ya.... Poor carol didn't know what was going on till it was time to sleep. Ok thanks for the help!

I'll add on that there might be a better way, but that's just how I've done it so far. As a disclaimer, I'm a novice as well. :)

[Permutation]

Ya, I was hoping they would do a nice inset around the stairs, and for dwarves sake, make sure no one's down there! I know carol is annoying but that's a little cruel.... Oh well, live and learn.

[Arestris]

I did this and didn't realize it until my miner died of dehydration.

[TacticalFaux]

Originally posted by Permutation:

Ya, I was hoping they would do a nice inset around the stairs, and for dwarves sake, make sure no one's down there! I know carol is annoying but that's a little cruel.... Oh well, live and learn.

Dwarfs are only aware of what they see, so it's entirely possible that it wasn't cruel and they just didn't know she was down there! :)

While I was figuring out magma forge placement over magma, I dig wrong wall and had a dwarf get melted. The smoke from her body wafted up through rest of the fort and eventually faded into atmosphere. Even though I saw her die, officially she was just considered missing because they never found a body, and just declared her missing after a week. So I made a slab to memorialize her, since she couldn't get proper burial.

[Permutation]

Hmm poor lady, that's a rough way to go.

While I believe you are correct, I'd like to believe that Carol was super annoying and would only talk about mining to everyone, much to all the other dwarves dismay. So when the order came to build a floor over the stairs the builders came up with the cunning plan to have her under it. Even while they laid the floor they could hear her pickaxe hitting the cold stone below.

Thud.... Thud.... Thud

They whisper and continued their work as silently as possible as not to make her aware of what was going on only a few feet above her....

Anyways that's what I want to believe, even though I'm 99.99% sure you are right.

[creepy-streaker]

I recently trapped about 20 children and some adults in my small top layer storage/booze making area. didnt notice ttill a ton of kids started dying from dehydration...still dealing with their ghosts.

[Permutation]

I think that's why I'm falling in love with this game. Not the death part but just the stories are so interesting and how your own mistakes create situations you never thought your planing would create. My intentions were good but the outcome was terrifying... Killed 20 kids because I wanted a floor, it's terrible but I can't wait for more!

[CoolNitro]

Originally posted by creepy-streaker:

I recently trapped about 20 children and some adults in my small top layer storage/booze making area. didnt notice ttill a ton of kids started dying from dehydration...still dealing with their ghosts.

That was probably for the best, ever since my last fort where children blocked adults from hauling anything I have considered them a pest to be exterminated when possible.

Originally posted by Permutation:

I think that's why I'm falling in love with this game. Not the death part but just the stories are so interesting and how your own mistakes create situations you never thought your planing would create. My intentions were good but the outcome was terrifying... Killed 20 kids because I wanted a floor, it's terrible but I can't wait for more!

That right there is the true nature of DF, now you understand the whole losing is fun aspect.

[Erei]

Originally posted by Permutation:

I think that's why I'm falling in love with this game. Not the death part but just the stories are so interesting and how your own mistakes create situations you never thought your planing would create. My intentions were good but the outcome was terrifying... Killed 20 kids because I wanted a floor, it's terrible but I can't wait for more!

Yep, that's what DF does, create stories.

Also, wait until you start having fun with magma, water and minecarts ! You'll feel guilty of laughing.

[Permutation]

It's so true, I've always loved colony sims and wanted to get into DF but I'll admit the asiic graphics and controls held me back. I was more then happy to purchase this upgraded version so that I could finally see what it was all about.

I know it's probably a little shallow of me because I'm not a graphics guy, I don't need 8k 400 fps, but I do enjoy not needing to interpret what I'm looking at to a certain degree.

I've restarted a few times as I learn new things but I think I have enough grasp to let my current game play to it's inevitable conclusion.

[Erei]

It's ok. I waited for ages before playing DF. Only did when I learned 1/steam release was years away 2/you had "tileset" that made sprites instead of ASCII, like we have in the steam release, but different looking ofc.
The UI was still difficult to use, even with DF hack, Dwarf therapist and all the 3rd party stuff.

[Permutation]

It's funny because the games that were inspired by DF are what brought me to want it. I love RimWorld, terraria, and Factorio as well as other such games always knowing DF existed and now I finally get to enjoy the original.