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JacenHanLovesLegos

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Downward passage?
« on: December 04, 2010, 07:25:29 pm »

I had just started a new fort, made a few stockpiles, bedrooms, etc etc when I decided to dig down to the caverns to start. I hit a cavern, and then got a message "You have discovered a downward passage". I searched the wiki, and it said it was found a in caves, and had no other information on it. My site is a mountain biome, where caves are found. Did I just find an underground cave or what?
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Re: Downward passage?
« Reply #1 on: December 04, 2010, 07:26:29 pm »

A downward passage connects a cavern layer to the next lower one. It is useful only in adventure mode, when you can't dig down.
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JacenHanLovesLegos

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Re: Downward passage?
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2010, 07:50:07 pm »

Ahh okay. The wiki didn't say that in an obvious place. (In my previous fort I ahad found a deep pit and was scared it was related to megabeasts or dragons or the sort, before finding out it just lead to another cavern)
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As it turns out, the pen was in fact a poor choice for melee combat in comparison to the sword.
So I just started playing this game and I accidentally nuked the moon.

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Re: Downward passage?
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2010, 07:52:47 pm »

A downward passage connects a cavern layer to the next lower one. It is useful only in adventure mode, when you can't dig down.

So you just jump down it? That seems counter-intuitive.
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JacenHanLovesLegos

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Re: Downward passage?
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2010, 07:53:32 pm »

It's a series of ramps, not a straight fall.
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As it turns out, the pen was in fact a poor choice for melee combat in comparison to the sword.
So I just started playing this game and I accidentally nuked the moon.