The Void: how to get out

[berandro]

I used a champion of earth to descend to the void and now he cant come back up. I found a Pyramids Beyond site that has the gateway icon on it. But when I click on Enter Gateway, nothing happens. Is this working as intended? Why?

[Althaea]

Has your commander perhaps gone insane? Most units in the void will very quickly go insane, meaning they have a chance of not responding to your orders on any given turn. If he has, he will have a trait on his status screen saying as much, and the icon you use to select him will also be tinted red.

The best policy on the void, normally, is not to go there to begin with.

[berandro]

Nope, he could move around as he pleased. It was a champion of the mountain. I guess the other end of the gateway must be somehow visible?

[Althaea]

You should be able to see through the gateway itself.

Unfortunately I've never really encountered a gateway in the void (I don't go there in general largely due to not being fond of the High Cultist). I would presume that some bug has occurred, and that the game has generated that gateway, but nowhere for it to go, but that's pure speculation.

You should probably mention this in the bug report thread.

Do you have a save file?

[berandro]

Unfortunately there is no save anymore. I will post on the bug thread, thanks

[niddhoger]

It could simply be that the exit tile of the gateway was already occupied. Random monsters seem to spill out from the void regardless if I'm guarding the tile or not, but it could be different rules for us. Normally, those gates are your only way out, and I've used them before as the high cultist (you can also swim to the map edge to enter the void).

As already mentioned, the best way to deal with the void is never to enter it. Outside of the high-cultist, no one has insanity immunity. The only classes that can even purge insanity are necromancers and vampires. However, even liches are in danger of going permanently crazy before findidng an exit- as you noticed, the map doesn't stay revealed and you enter from a random part every time.

[berandro]

I thought if the other end of the gateway is occupied a battle ensues. It happened in the same game, when I went from one Could Castle to the other, only to find out that the Barbarians were occupying the other castle. Luckily enough, they couldn't deal with a few greater earth summons. :)

[LichDream]

That has happened with me a few times before as well, not being able to enter a gate due to unknown reasons.