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Zyrjello

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Problems under a glacier
« on: July 16, 2010, 05:34:58 pm »
My latest embark is on a glacier with an obsidian layer right under it. No plants, no surface water. Sounds like Fun, right?

The trouble is that my dwarves refuse to go beneath the glacier. I instruct them to dig stairs through the ice, but when the get to the last ice layer they just channel away the layer and refuse to go down there. Now, I can dig ramps around the stairs and then tell them to continue digging, but the most I can get them to do is dig one layer of down stairs and then stop working.

Am I missing something important about glaciers, or is this a crazy bug?
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Urist Imiknorris

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Re: Problems under a glacier
« Reply #1 on: July 16, 2010, 05:43:58 pm »
Stairs on the bottom layer of a glacier vanish when dug. Your best hope is to make some constructed stairs.
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Hyndis

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Re: Problems under a glacier
« Reply #2 on: July 16, 2010, 05:53:32 pm »
Ramps work too.
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Zyrjello

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Re: Problems under a glacier
« Reply #3 on: July 16, 2010, 06:02:18 pm »
Odd. The constructed stairs utterly failed on my last embark, but it worked this time!

Hyndis: Ramps worked to get the dwarves to the bottom glacial layer, but they wouldn't continue digging from there. It was really strange.

In any case, everything is working properly now. :)
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