how to get down to cavern floor?

[Eevilflamee]

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[Norbac]

Dig. What's the question again?

[Eevilflamee]

no ive mined down, then hit a cavern but cant get down there to mine etc etc

[Norbac]

Originally posted by Eevilflamee:

no ive mined down, then hit a cavern but cant get down there to mine etc etc

If I were to guess you dug into open space.
https://i.imgur.com/Gj38TTZ.png

[AlP]

If you dug into a cavern ceiling, you can't make stairs down in the current Steam version. You can see where the cavern walls are, and dig a staircase down in that wall.

[Eevilflamee]

Originally posted by Norbac:

Originally posted by Eevilflamee:

no ive mined down, then hit a cavern but cant get down there to mine etc etc

If I were to guess you dug into open space.
https://i.imgur.com/Gj38TTZ.png

yeah ive done this i tried making stairs and floor seemed a bit madeness though

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by AlP:

If you dug into a cavern ceiling, you can't make stairs down in the current Steam version. You can see where the cavern walls are, and dig a staircase down in that wall.

I think you can, but it's very micro. Try starting with only one stair tile going down, then fill in the remaining tiles of your stair pattern.

Of course, it's much easier to just go horizontal to solid walls and go down through there.

[Eevilflamee]

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

Originally posted by AlP:

If you dug into a cavern ceiling, you can't make stairs down in the current Steam version. You can see where the cavern walls are, and dig a staircase down in that wall.

I think you can, but it's very micro. Try starting with only one stair tile going down, then fill in the remaining tiles of your stair pattern.

Of course, it's much easier to just go horizontal to solid walls and go down through there.

Thanks ill try this. Seems obvious now you said it lol.

Never played this so am just trial and error for now.

Drink is a problem but ive made a well so hoping that helps.

Also for some reason i set a plot to a specific seed and cant pick multiple etc nothing seems to grow

[Norbac]

Originally posted by Eevilflamee:

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

I think you can, but it's very micro. Try starting with only one stair tile going down, then fill in the remaining tiles of your stair pattern.

Of course, it's much easier to just go horizontal to solid walls and go down through there.

Thanks ill try this. Seems obvious now you said it lol.

Never played this so am just trial and error for now.

Drink is a problem but ive made a well so hoping that helps.

Also for some reason i set a plot to a specific seed and cant pick multiple etc nothing seems to grow

I don't know what you are trying to do but sounds overcomplicated.
You can go back to the level right above the empty space, and keep digging until find a wall that goes all the way to the cavern floor.
https://streamable.com/d7ovg3

[Dragster6681]

[/quote] Never played this so am just trial and error for now.

Drink is a problem but ive made a well so hoping that helps.

Also for some reason i set a plot to a specific seed and cant pick multiple etc nothing seems to grow [/quote]

Dwarfs drink alcohol not water, they'll only drink water when it's brought to them in a hospital. Make sure you have planted the seeds on fertile ground, I made the mistake of planting mine on clay and waited and waited for ages before I realised my mistake.

[Erei]

Originally posted by Eevilflamee:

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

I think you can, but it's very micro. Try starting with only one stair tile going down, then fill in the remaining tiles of your stair pattern.

Of course, it's much easier to just go horizontal to solid walls and go down through there.

Thanks ill try this. Seems obvious now you said it lol.

Never played this so am just trial and error for now.

Drink is a problem but ive made a well so hoping that helps.

Also for some reason i set a plot to a specific seed and cant pick multiple etc nothing seems to grow

Ok so the thing with dwarves :
-They HATE to drink water. Make alcohol ASAP by brewing plant with a still.
-They ONLY drink water when they are wounded in a hospital.
Don't ask.

For plant, you can (in most biomes) simply gather food outside. Unless you are i na desert/glacier kind of place, you alwyas have tons of plant. Put everyone as herbalist (labor tab) and gather a big square with the herbalist tool.


Also, be aware that cavern are dangerous. And some creature are immune to cage trap, and will break doors.

Finally, remember that losing is fun. Sorry, it's very likely your first fort will end in blood and vomit :)

[BlackSmokeDMax]

Originally posted by Eevilflamee:

Originally posted by BlackSmokeDMax:

I think you can, but it's very micro. Try starting with only one stair tile going down, then fill in the remaining tiles of your stair pattern.

Of course, it's much easier to just go horizontal to solid walls and go down through there.

Thanks ill try this. Seems obvious now you said it lol.

Never played this so am just trial and error for now.

Drink is a problem but ive made a well so hoping that helps.

Also for some reason i set a plot to a specific seed and cant pick multiple etc nothing seems to grow

If you meant you'll try the stairs method, make sure you start designating the construction (not digging!) on your current level that already has stairs, then z level down to the cavern floor.

If you meant you'll try to just dig over to a wall and then dig stairs down from there, you'll find that very easy. Please read the later comments about being careful about the caverns!

slight spoiler below:

edit: Oh, and also if you do the digging method, you'll probably want to floor off the area at the bottom of your stairs so that they are not open to the cavern. There are possible flying creatures that can cruise right in!

Similar to above, but if you do the stairs method, you'll want to build walls around those stairs on all z levels.

[Dagmar]

For apparently not-so-obvious reasons, it's impossible to dig into open space, and it's similarly impossible to build anything atop empty air.

Just dig to the side and then around to somewhere near the bottom of the cavern.

[Eevilflamee]

thanks guys dug to -6 so far and found gold!

[Jukelo]

Originally posted by Eevilflamee:

thanks guys dug to -6 so far and found gold!

If that's all you've found, you need to dig deeper and more greedily.

[Eevilflamee]

Ive found allsorts of semi precious stones and some other ores i think i forget the names.