Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Zrk2]

In extension of the OP I just hit my first cavern right through with my main stairwell. All I've seen are regular cave sprider webs (sweet I've never had them before) and some kind of underground bovine like grazer. Am I about to experience fun?

[personofshadow]

You could just make a door, that'll keep most things out unless you get something like a troll or a cave crocodile since they're building destroyers, but a door set to closed tightly will keep most of those other pests out.

Funny story though, my mayor apparently decided he wanted to be a big game hunter since he had the hunting skill active, and after killing the alligators outside he went into the caves and tried to hunt a GCS.

Suffice to say we needed a hasty election to fill the position afterwards

[krenshala]

I did this as well.  Got about 8 levels down and a channel hit the first cavern.  I canceled the other dig orders and walled off that one opening since its just barely winter of the first year, and my four-dwarf militia knows which is the pointy end but not really how to use their weapons (and I haven't made armor) yet.  Thankfully nothing pathed in while I did this, though I stationed my speardwarves at the opening, just to be safe.

The problem is I'm going to be forced to either import flux stones, or "sneak" past the caves to find the marble layer the embark screen claimed was the fourth layer down.  I hit the third layer (gabbro) a z-level above the caves, so I've got iron weapons right now, and the visible caves do not include any marble.  grrrrr