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Author Topic: Multi Z-level ramps  (Read 940 times)

van

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Multi Z-level ramps
« on: November 28, 2009, 10:34:56 am »
Hey, how would I make a ramp for a caravan that goes down about 7 z-levels?  Because when I tried making one they mine about 1/3 ramps and 2/3 open spaces, trapping themselves in.  So wtf?

EDIT:  OK, just realized something, is there anyway to flip the direction of the ramps so I don't have a rampway 7 tiles long?
« Last Edit: November 28, 2009, 10:51:08 am by van »
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Re: Multi Z-level ramps
« Reply #1 on: November 28, 2009, 11:00:28 am »
Your rampway will be 7 tiles long, unless you make it spiral shaped.

Still, ramps are allways only 1 z-level high. It wouldnt realy make sense if dwarves could walk on anything steeper.
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Re: Multi Z-level ramps
« Reply #2 on: November 28, 2009, 11:39:34 am »
So you need to make a platform between each set of ramps.

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^^^  = up ramp
...
...  = ground
...
vvv  = down ramp
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Re: Multi Z-level ramps
« Reply #3 on: November 29, 2009, 06:19:31 am »
The platform need only be 1 tile wide.
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Re: Multi Z-level ramps
« Reply #4 on: November 29, 2009, 12:46:40 pm »
There doesn't need to be a platform.
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vvvThis works fine. If you claim it doesn't I can show you pics of the depot access view in a tunnel that is both exited and entered via multiple levels of up/down ramps.
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van

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Re: Multi Z-level ramps
« Reply #5 on: November 29, 2009, 02:16:02 pm »
Yeah, I ended up doing this:
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(viewed from the side)
_
X\
XX\
XXX\
XXXX\
XXXXX\
XXXXXX\
XXXXXXX\

_=floor
\=Ramp
X=wall
For all 7 layers and it works fine.
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Re: Multi Z-level ramps
« Reply #6 on: November 29, 2009, 02:39:13 pm »
Yeah, wagons are very strange creatures.

The middle of the wagon will sit on the 3x1 ramp, with the horses jutting into the rock.

Just be careful you don't have magma behind your ramps though, the horses/mules/whatevers will catch on fire.
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Re: Multi Z-level ramps
« Reply #7 on: November 29, 2009, 04:01:47 pm »
And if you end up constructing any of the ramps make sure you construct a wall behind them.
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