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Kaiser Reinhard

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"You have discovered a downward passage."
« on: February 18, 2011, 07:50:36 am »



So yeah, was digging through the caverns o get at the delicious magma, when suddenly I pierce the second cavern layer and this message pops up. I think the passage is shown on the screen, if so what does it lead to?
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ZeroSumHappiness

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Re: "You have discovered a downward passage."
« Reply #1 on: February 18, 2011, 07:54:50 am »

Go find out?
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Kaiser Reinhard

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Re: "You have discovered a downward passage."
« Reply #2 on: February 18, 2011, 07:56:52 am »

Got no military to use, all my efforts have been focused on building a great wall to secure my pastures. Guess I'll see if I can send in a useless migrant.
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Re: "You have discovered a downward passage."
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2011, 08:01:48 am »

I saw this message, too. It seems that it's about small passages between cavern layers. You can center the screen ('z') when looking 'a'nnouncements.
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Kaiser Reinhard

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Re: "You have discovered a downward passage."
« Reply #4 on: February 18, 2011, 08:04:56 am »

Yeah, just sent in a migrant, turns out it's a direct passage to the next cavern layer.

Guess he got lucky.
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Mister Always

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Re: "You have discovered a downward passage."
« Reply #5 on: February 18, 2011, 08:07:08 am »

Don't let him off the hook just yet. There's a cavern to be explored, bucko! Go make friends with Mister Spider, Mister Cave Crocodile and Miss Elk Bird!
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Kaiser Reinhard

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Re: "You have discovered a downward passage."
« Reply #6 on: February 18, 2011, 08:11:42 am »

After he's done helping to build my great wall of urist. I already changed his profession, so when the time is right I can send him in again.
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Re: "You have discovered a downward passage."
« Reply #7 on: February 18, 2011, 08:33:53 am »

Idea: make all migrants explore the underground to get in your fortress.
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Re: "You have discovered a downward passage."
« Reply #8 on: February 18, 2011, 08:36:48 am »

Better Idea: block off all passageways between caverns to limit FB wandering.

The last thing you want is for a FB to disappear for a year, only to enter your fortress through your garbage chute.
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Re: "You have discovered a downward passage."
« Reply #9 on: February 18, 2011, 10:22:19 am »

Better Idea: block off all passageways between caverns to limit FB wandering.

The last thing you want is for a FB to disappear for a year, only to enter your fortress through your garbage chute.

Urist McUselesspeasant cancels Dump Item: Interrupted by forgotten beast.
Urist McUselesspeasant got torn into teeny tiny little chunks.

And nothing of value was lost.
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Re: "You have discovered a downward passage."
« Reply #10 on: February 18, 2011, 07:41:42 pm »

I've had this too, except it lead two z levels down and then nothing.
I also had a similar problem with discovering a different kind of downward passage, but actually having to mine to expose it, meh.
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Re: "You have discovered a downward passage."
« Reply #11 on: February 19, 2011, 03:04:57 am »

just build ONE loom and turn ONE dwarf on to weaving and nothing else.
designate a LARGE area near the loom to hold cloth and in time, you'll have that whole cavern explored without having to touch another key, as that one dwarf looks through every inch of that cavern, looking for more spider silk to harvest.

to speed the process up, add more dwarves and more looms.
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