2 stairs to go lower onto mine on same floor

[Sku11]

just wondering if there more chance at ores or so when that happens just now as example i had stairs exposed from the begining of floor 4 to go down was on a quest to defeat 8 slimes for wizard and when i killed one slime another stair appeared... whats diferent on those stairs?

[someonesneaky]

There's a chance for each creature you kill and each stone you mine to give a downward ladder. I once had four ladders on one level -- one that spawned originally, two that showed up from killing monsters, and one that popped up when a soot sprite ate a stone.

I don't think there's any way to know if any of them will lead to a different area, since there's no way to backtrack. But they're all the same -- you could take the one that you saw from the beginning, or any of the post-monster-slaughter ladders -- they'll all take you down a level.

That actually might be an interesting experiment. If you focus on under-stone ladders, will you get floors with more stone and ores? If you try to stick to strictly monster-kill ladders, will you get floors with more monsters, and maybe more frequent 'infested by monsters' areas?

Hmmm...

[Sku11]

Yeah no clue pretty new to the game xD but seems my theory might have hitted something xD

[Mackenzie]

Monsters can always 'drop' a descending ladder.

If a floor spawns with a ladder already available, you cannot find another from mining a rock.

Every rock has a chance for a ladder until a ladder becomes available for that floor.

[The_Pastmaster]

Once I had six ladders in the same 5x5 area. XD

[Sku11]

Most i got was 4 not counting the lader i came from