If you are fed up with using stone stairs, why not give wooden stairs a try!  Earl Listibald reminds us of an old trick to create these alternate, fully functional, wooden stairways.

Submitted by Earl Listibald

The first and most painfully obvious fact is that there are no wooden stairs in the map editor!  Because of this we have to improvise by creating flattened wooden walls and then incrementally lowering them to look like stairs. This applies to o­nly o­ne short part of the stairs though and is easy to be reproduced, unlike the first way of doing it, I had proposed before.

Take a look at the following diagrams of a partially complete wooden staircase and we'll explain what is going o­n below...

Here's a quick overview of what we've done in the diagrams above:

• 1 is a simple piece of wooden walkway, created at ground level with the help of add stone stairs to anything trick and the flattened wooden walls trick
• 2 is a wooden walkway created o­n land which was raised 30 clicks above ground (as shown in the first picture)
• 3 is a wooden walkway created o­n land which was raised 27 clicks above ground (as shown in the first picture)

By using the "lowered wall" trick, we can start to make the stairs look more meaningful (as shown in the second picture) by lowering them to the desired hieght so that they meet the top of the wooden walkway wall.  This is where the height of our raised terrain comes in to play - by placing a small rock  (not more than 2 tiles wide - o­ne tile o­n the wooden walkway, the other o­n the ground beside it) we incrementally lower sections of the wooden walkway. But you should o­nly need to place o­ne rock o­n top of the wooden walkway to lower it to the correct hieght.

Once the lowering has been done, you should erase the remains of the small boulders and then lower the ground around your stairs to ground level.

Next we need to add 4 tiles of palisades - also known as wooden walls - (A) and attach a wooden tower (B) adjacent to platform number 3 (from the previous picture).  Still with us? ;)

Here you can see it all ready and working. Sadly o­ne cannot just add that wooden tower to the wooden walkway because of  height difference but this is o­ne handy way to quickly create good looking wooden stairs to wooden structures such as cute wooden walkways.

I also did get this technique to work fine (i.e. wooden walkway, o­ne tile looking towards back, then attached wooden tower), although it seems the lord did not want to climb it, version 1.2):

Have fun!

Submitted by Earl Listibald - in response to this forum topic.