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[Stargazer]

There's a cavern layer directly below my fortress, meaning I had to dig around it in order to proceed downward. There is a small, short hallway leading from one set of stairs to another that is on the layer directly above the open caverns with the ground being directly beneath one level down. From what I can tell, there is no possible way for my dwarves to see into the cavern layer below, yet somehow they continually get interrupted by the forgotten beasts wandering around down there. In fact, when one wandered too close to that particular hallway, my entire populace began to panic and became trapped inside, not wanting to use either of the stairwells, running back and forth like a bunch of ducks in a shooting gallery. Then, to my shock, I noticed arrows apparently being fired through SOLID ROCK at the beast below. What the heck is going on here?

Eventually, I was forced to go a level down, carve out the wall, and send my military inside to kill the thing before my entire fort died of starvation from stupidity. From what I can tell, the hallway and stairwells were completely enclosed by stone. Can my dwarves still be frightened by a beast on the other side of the wall?

[Leonidas]

Are you using up/down stairs, where the dwarves are maybe seeing out the bottom?

[Lagslayer]

Are you using up/down stairs, where the dwarves are maybe seeing out the bottom?

This, and it's very irritating when something like this happens. Remove the up part of the bottom most up/down stairs you carved out and just build a regular up stairs over it. This should solve the problem.

[fluiddruid]

Are you using up/down stairs, where the dwarves are maybe seeing out the bottom?

This, and it's very irritating when something like this happens. Remove the up part of the bottom most up/down stairs you carved out and just build a regular up stairs over it. This should solve the problem.

I have good success with hatch covers if my main staircase breaches a cavern (unless it actually hits ground so a FB could batter them down, in which case I dig out the stairs and floor it up).

[Fire_fox]

If you have a crossbow or two and some bolts you may be able to scare it away if the stair case does not go all the way down. This happened to me once and I was able to scare it away or it just walked away. (It is the forgotten beasts roar that scares the dwarfs)