40d Talk:Building

Currently Organized by their menus under (b).

• Armor Stand (a) - Needs armor stand
• Bed (b) - Needs bed
• Seat (c) - Needs chair or throne
• Burial Receptacle (n) - Needs coffin
• Door (d) - Needs door
• Floodgate (x) - Needs floodgate
• Floor Hatch (H) - Needs hatch cover
• Wall Grate (W) - Needs grate
• Floor Grate (G) - Needs grate
• Vertical Bars (B) - Needs bars
• Floor Bars (Alt+b) - Needs bars
• Cabinet (f) - Needs
• Container (h) - Needs
• Kennels (k) - Needs
• Farm Plot (p) - Needs
• Weapon Rack (r) - Needs weapon rack
• Statue (s) - Needs statue
• Table (t) - Needs table
• Paved Road (o) - Needs
• Dirt Road (O) - Needs
• Bridge (g) - Needs
• Well (l) - Needs blocks, empty bucket, chain, mechanisms
• Siege Engines (i)
  • Ballista (b) - Needs 3 ballista parts
  • Catapult (c) - Needs 3 catapult parts
• Workshops (w)
  • Leather Works (e) - Needs
  • Quern (q) - Needs quern
  • Millstone (M) - Needs millstone, mechanisms
  • Loom (o) - Needs
  • Clothier's Shop (k) - Needs
  • Bowyer's Workshop (b) - Needs
  • Carpenter's Workshop (c) - Needs
  • Metalsmith's Forge (f) - Needs
  • Jeweler's Workshop - Needs
  • Mason's Workshop - Needs
  • Butcher's Shop - Needs
  • Tanner's Shop - Needs
  • Craftsdwarf's Workshop (r) - Needs
  • Siege Workshop (s) - Needs
  • Mechanic's Workshop (t) - Needs
  • Still (l) - Needs
  • Farmer's Workshop (w) - Needs
  • Kitchen (z) - Needs
  • Fishery (h) - Needs
  • Alchemist's Laboratory (a)
  • Ashery (y) - Needs blocks, empty barrel, empty bucket
  • Dyer's Shop (d) - Needs empty barrel, empty bucket
• Furnaces (e)
  • Wood Furnace (w) - Needs
  • Smelter (s) - Needs
  • Glass Furnace (g) - Needs
  • Kiln (k) - Needs
• Glass Window (y) - Needs window
• Gem Window (Y) - Needs 3 cut gems
• Wall/Floor/Stairs (C)
  • Wall (w) - Needs
  • Floor (f) - Needs
  • Ramp (r) - Needs
  • Up Stair (u) - Needs
  • Down Stair (d) - Needs
  • Up/Down Stair (x) - Needs
  • Fortification (F) - Needs
• Trade Depot (D) - Needs
• Traps/Levers (T)
  • Stone-Fall Trap (s) - Needs mechanisms
  • Weapon Trap (w) - Needs mechanisms, item
  • Lever (l) - Needs mechanisms
  • Pressure Plate (p) - Needs mechanisms
  • Cage Trap (c) - Needs mechanisms
  • Upright Spear/Spike (S) - Needs item
• Machine Components (M)
  • Screw Pump (s) - Needs
  • Water Wheel (w) - Needs
  • Windmill (m) - Needs
  • Gear Assembly (g) - Needs
  • Horizontal Axle (h) - Needs
  • Vertical Axle (v) - Needs
• Support (S) - Needs
• Animal Trap (m) - Needs empty animal trap
• Restraint (v) - Needs chain
• Cage (j) - Needs cage
• Archery Target (A) - Needs

User Talk

I've got to go make deal and do some other work, so someone feel free to take this and finish/clean up for posting in the article. Renditelitan 22:49, 29 October 2007 (EDT)

Building skill

Question: What skill does constructing buildings use? Does it depend on the materials?

Almost all constructions don't actually use a skill (Carpenter, Mason, etc), but only require a dwarf with the appropriate labor enabled. It depends on the building. Beds, doors, statues, tables, chairs, and the like require the "furniture hauling" labor. For workshops, bridges, etc, it's based on what material you use to build it, so they usually require the carpentry, masonry, or metalsmithing labors. Some buildings must also be designed before they can be constructed (which requires the architecture labor, and uses the building designer skill). --Marble Dice 17:59, 2 June 2008 (EDT)

Added Building Technicalities section.

It's a good resource, but it has a few things that need to be worked out. The overall layout of it is a bit weird, admittedly, and I'm not too good with wikis, but you guys can work that out :P --Xonara

Oh, by the way. To clarify why I made the section, I thought it would be good to have everything compiled on one page for convenience, Toady is probably going to change these alot as he already has been. Also, there's a lot of info in the table that could be added to the main articles concerning each construction. --Xonara 03:53, 25 October 2008 (EDT)

Refined table.

I cleaned up all those bizarre footnotes and the table now displays whether or not a construction will be held up by a tile, vertically and horizontally. I'm starting to think that whether or not a construction is held up by a certain tile should be put in a separate table. Thoughts? --Xonara 20:13, 26 October 2008 (EDT)