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Flat

35 (77.8%)

Mono Pitch

0 (0%)

Gable

5 (11.1%)

Hip

1 (2.2%)

Dutch Gable (hip then gable)

0 (0%)

Half Hip (gable then hip)

1 (2.2%)

Mansard

2 (4.4%)

Gambrel

1 (2.2%)

Total Members Voted: 45

[GhostDwemer]

And as follow up questions: do you use eaves, and do you use dormers?
If you're unfamiliar with any of these real world roofing options, wikipedia has a nice list here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_roof_shapes
Note that I've only listed common roofing options that are easily done in DF and have skipped things like domes or barrel vaults which take a bit more work. If you use these sorts of roofs, or other odd roof types, let us know in the comments!

[☼Another☼]

Generally, I use flat. It's easiest, and we're dwarves, we have no care for fancy roofs. A flat roof serves us fine. (This could change for aboveground in snowy embarks.)

[GhostDwemer]

I figure flat will probably win, (it is the easiest) but not if you don't vote for it, haha!

[Libash_Thunderhead]

I guess the OP doesn't use flat otherwise he wouldn't have posted this.

[GhostDwemer]

I prefer gable roofs myself. Hipped roofs seem too modern, and flat roofs are too boring. Now, for tower tops I'll frequently make them flat if they are crenellated because defensive towers generally were done like that. But mostly, I do gable roofs or my simple version of mansard: hipped for two courses and then flat.

I also like to put in dormers, but I almost never do eaves.

[Libash_Thunderhead]

Unless I want to use a visualizer, I'll stick to flat.

[steel jackal]

flat, its just the most easy. plus i can add another floor later if i want to

[Dunamisdeos]

I don't know what any of these fancy house words mean, so mine are usually like this if I am building above ground human cities. Otherwise everything is flat if I'm building dwarven things because everything above-ground is military based.

[GhostDwemer]

What got me thinking about roofs, is visitors. I know I can just stick them all underground but most humans I know would rather live in a house than a hole in the ground. So I've got a big above ground inn with gabled roof and dormers. But it's been years now and some want citizenship, so I'm making actual above ground houses for them.

[Melting Sky]

I always build Hobbit style into a hill usually with some sort of ornate entrance and lots of little arrow slits poking out in all directions. On very rare occasions little bits of the fortress will poke up from the earth as lookout towers and those are flat roofed, but in general my dwarves build completely subterraneanly and thus don't use roofing at all.

[mikekchar]

GhostDwemer, how do you approach building non-flat roofs?  It seems like it would be a lot of work.  The only way I can imagine making a sloped roof is build a strip 2 wide and then another one on top of that, moved over 1 square.  For a while I've wanted to build a Japanese style castle, but I don't have the patience for it :-)

[GhostDwemer]

GhostDwemer, how do you approach building non-flat roofs?  It seems like it would be a lot of work.  The only way I can imagine making a sloped roof is build a strip 2 wide and then another one on top of that, moved over 1 square.  For a while I've wanted to build a Japanese style castle, but I don't have the patience for it :-)

Ramps on walls. Here's a side view.


   R
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 RW WR
RW   WR
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[☼Another☼]

If you have Armok Vision, I'd love to see how your fort looks. Pretty visualizers can be motivating to change your playstyle.

[GhostDwemer]

Here's a screenshot of my latest Masterwork fortress, showing the central castle. I like the way the dormers turned out on this one, it's the first time I've tried putting them in. Yeah, that's a magma moat, it's really easy to do with the latest version of Masterwork. I'm currently working on some above ground housing and a bigger inn down there in the lower right corner. The inn is a separate L-Plan castle, sort of like Muchall's Castle: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muchalls_Castle


It's not really that fancy compared to a lot of stuff I've seen out there but I'm playing on a pretty low horsepower system ever since my main gaming rig got stolen during my latest move. I probably shouldn't have also gone totally overboard underground like I have. I've built a 5 level grotto complex complete with powered waterfall, and my FPS is about 5-10 at this point, hehe. But flux stone has to come from someplace, am I right?

[Starver]

It'd be nice if I could do cruck construction, and thatch it.

Flat, though, generally. Often using bridges (for several practical reasons), with walkways of flooring betwixt bridge-pairs, or around bridge-quartets.