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v0.34:Skyfort
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We've walled and roofed whole map tiles just because the sun irritated us. We've drained the magma sea and built a fort under it. We've drained the real sea, just to try and get at mermaid bones. We built a fort in hell just to prove we could. And now, we've built a fort in the sky.
There is no natural obstacle a dwarf has not overcome.
A skyfort is a floating fortress without structural support from the ground. Due to a quirk in dwarven physics, the sky can be used to provide limited support to your fortress. Specifically, a solid vertical column that reaches the top of the sky level will not collapse, but it will also no longer support neighboring tiles horizontally. In order to retain vertical support, passable areas are carved with up/down stairways. Obsidian casting is necessary to allow these stairways to be added on top of existing buildings (like furniture and workshops). Unsupported glass windows can be used to plug any holes, such as those required below magma workshops.
Please refer to the forum thread for full details.