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vassock

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Enemy pathing diagonally?
« on: July 15, 2016, 11:51:25 pm »

Can enemies path diagonally? I am putting a ceiling on a tree farm and it will look like this (the top level):

X: floor (current Z-level)
W: top of wall from previous Z-level



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WWWWWWWWW
WXXXXXXXW
WXXXXXXXW
WXXXXXXXW
WXXXXXXXW
WXXXXXXXW
WWWWWWWWW


Is that totally airtight?
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Re: Enemy pathing diagonally?
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2016, 12:26:00 am »

Unless they are Already inside, Yes it is.
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Re: Enemy pathing diagonally?
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2016, 10:54:50 am »

Enemies can path through diagonal holes in your wall, yes.

So if you took off the corners of a square enclosure, they'd pop right through.
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Re: Enemy pathing diagonally?
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2016, 01:54:33 pm »

Enemies can pass through build fortifications diagonally from above, because build ones do not have a floor on top, while carved ones retain the intrinsic floor provided by the original wall, regardless if that wall was built or natural.
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Re: Enemy pathing diagonally?
« Reply #4 on: July 17, 2016, 12:23:36 am »

Somewhat surprisingly, flying enemies can also go through this:

z1:
++W
++W
++W
z0:
++B
++B
++B

W=Wall
B=Raised drawbridge.

They'll appear on the floor on z1.

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Re: Enemy pathing diagonally?
« Reply #5 on: July 17, 2016, 03:04:00 am »

Assuming z1 has a roof and assuming '+' is a floor, this is rather surprising. I assume they'd move from z0 just outside of the bridge diagonally upwards to the floor on z1?

I haven't been subject to that one, although I occasionally get the same situation (although the wall is replaced by a floor) when I have to kill FBs with cave-ins.
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Re: Enemy pathing diagonally?
« Reply #6 on: July 17, 2016, 03:05:13 am »

Yeah. Sanctume mentioned it in trivial findings thread :P

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Re: Enemy pathing diagonally?
« Reply #7 on: July 17, 2016, 05:46:15 am »

I don't really consider it trivial. It's about the same rank as the horrible up/down staircase unrevealed access from diagonally below "feature". Suddenly your "secure" fortress is invaded from somewhere unknown by something more or less dangerous (let's hope for a giant cave swallow!).
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