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[The Dog Delusion]

So in my current fort, I've been diggin around and planning out where things are and whatnot. Though I've been using reveal to avoid the caverns and plan things out a bit safer (a bit less Fun at the offset), a mis-type resulted in me revealing the magma sea not with a downward channel next to the bottom set of stairs, but rather, by designating an up/down stair to be dug out in the level directly above the magma.

So my question is this: having dug out an up/down staircase on the level directly above the magma, have I actually breached the magma sea? Can magma beasties climb up the stairs and enter the fort? Even in the absence of a set of stairs on the magma level?

[Nil Eyeglazed]

So in my current fort, I've been diggin around and planning out where things are and whatnot. Though I've been using reveal to avoid the caverns and plan things out a bit safer (a bit less Fun at the offset), a mis-type resulted in me revealing the magma sea not with a downward channel next to the bottom set of stairs, but rather, by designating an up/down stair to be dug out in the level directly above the magma.

So my question is this: having dug out an up/down staircase on the level directly above the magma, have I actually breached the magma sea? Can magma beasties climb up the stairs and enter the fort? Even in the absence of a set of stairs on the magma level?

I don't believe so.  But the reason it's only "believe" is because I always err on the safe side, and when this happens, I floor off the offending staircase, and build both new magma access and a new staircase (just for that level, because flooring it off destroys not only the downstairs but the upstairs).

[ThatAussieGuy]

No, they can't walk up into your fort without a set of stairs on the same level as them.  They can fly up into your fort, though.  Just build an Up Staircase over the Up/Down Staircase you excavated on the lowest level and it will block it off entirely.