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[GuesssWho]

Dwarven radar says that there are three empty spaces and a pit in the square I walled off. Is it safe to go in, or should I just engrave the walls and then never come back?

[Extreme Boyheat]

Not safe.

[Orange Wizard]

Build a dwarven chessboard, and then dig all of the candy.

[Jorn Stones]

You must dig. Sacrifice a dwarf if need be!

[GuesssWho]

Full of demons it is, then.

I wonder why it's not totally surrounded by candy.

[escondida]

It looks like it is--those smoothed walls, I'd guess, are raw adamantium, and are surrounding a 2x2 space…just the right size.

[GuesssWho]

I walled in a peasant on the next level down and had him check. Luckily he could rebuild the wall fast that way, because it was indeed hell.

My first hell, I'm so proud

[GuesssWho]

So, I put in a floor a ways below the demons and I'm digging beneath that. Is Hell safe now, or will there be more waiting?

[Baffler]

Nope. There'll be demons drifting in from the edges of the map. Hell is never safe, but there won't be another huge wave of demons coming.

[GuesssWho]

Cool. I'll have to do my best to wall them out . . . luckily I have lots of steam, ash and fire types I can pretty much 1-hit kill.

[Ruludos]

This here is the reason that adamantine is so safe to use; every entrance into hell will be a 2x2 tube through the magma sea, which means that as long as you avoid spaces large enough to contain the shaft your adamantine will never come with unintended side effects.

As an alternative, you could have carved a fortification into the spire; creatures will only move through a fortification if pushed by water, never of their own violation.

[Dunamisdeos]

This here is the reason that adamantine is so safe to use; every entrance into hell will be a 2x2 tube through the magma sea, which means that as long as you avoid spaces large enough to contain the shaft your adamantine will never come with unintended side effects.

As an alternative, you could have carved a fortification into the spire; creatures will only move through a fortification if pushed by water, never of their own violation.

In adventure mode 2014, one can jump through fortifications. I don't this has been tested in fort mode.

[GuesssWho]

That's alright, I'm still on 2012.

[Solon64]

This here is the reason that adamantine is so safe to use; every entrance into hell will be a 2x2 tube through the magma sea, which means that as long as you avoid spaces large enough to contain the shaft your adamantine will never come with unintended side effects.

As an alternative, you could have carved a fortification into the spire; creatures will only move through a fortification if pushed by water, never of their own violation.

In adventure mode 2014, one can jump through fortifications. I don't this has been tested in fort mode.

Now the question is, can flyers path through fortifications.  If so, then toady one has off-handedly crushed that mildly exploitative tactic for revealing HFS.  And overseers everywhere who don't know about it will be all "guhWAHHHH!?"  Hilarity and fun will ensue.  Fortresses will crumble daily.

Or they might still not path through them.  But i kind of hope they do.