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[eerr]

Why can vermin climb higher than dwarves?

[Smew]

What'dya mean by that?
aside from the fact they can teleport...

[smjjames]

huh? What are you talking about?

[Albedo]

Some vermin fly.

Nothing in DF "climbs", except to climb stairs or hillsides.

[kefkakrazy]

Vermin doesn't move like most creatures do. I don't know the exact mechanics, but vermin never paths-it teleports from place to place, and therefore can get into places it shouldn't logically be able to path to.

And yes, some vermin types can fly as well.

[Scruga]

vermin is vermin! They climb through tiny holes in the wall. They have their own vermin fortress over there and they just have to watch out for the beardy megabeasts roaming outside!

[smjjames]

Yea well, vermin (the real vermin anyway, the ones that your dwarves detest) are generally tiny things like bugs, lizards, fluffy wamblers (whatever the heck they are), and mice. It's alot easier for a bug or lizard to climb a rock wall than a dwarf. Unless that dwarf happens to be Spiderdwarf.

As far as coding, it doesn't logically make sense, but as far as the creatures themselves, it makes sense simply because of their small size.

[Alrenous]

Yeah I just assume that, like in real life, vermin easily move through holes and cracks too small for dwarf-sized entities to even be aware of.