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[guitarxe]

So I started a long stack of up/down stairways through the rocks and punched through a cavern. I couldn't wall it up because the whole was in mid-air, so I floored over the up/down stair that lead to the whole. However I have a few more up/down stairs adjacent that I did not floor over and I'm wondering if flying creatures can path diagonally from an opening one z-level down, to an opening one-zlevel higher.

Looks kind of like this:

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XX
XF
That is upper zlevel, with F being the floored over stair. Then, one z-level down:

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WW
WX
Here I have just this one up/down stair, and the "W" is natural wall. Below this is a whole into the caverns. So creatures can fly up to this z-level, but can they than fly up and diagonally into my other stairs, ignoring the floor I've put?[/code]

[Garath]

I'm pretty sure no, but I'd wait for a 2nd opinion if I were you

[wuphonsreach]

AFAIK, no.

When creating a long up/down stairway and you punch-through, you should replace the bottom stairs on the last useful level with constructed "up" stairs.  This will seal you off from the caverns.

[Garath]

I'm trying to remember If I ever had that happen... Well, first order of business to prevent it is to change any up/down to up only

[Sutremaine]

I've seen fliers get through a down stair with a wall beneath it, so they're not just limited to going straight up and down through z levels.

[BigD145]

I've seen fliers get through a down stair with a wall beneath it, so they're not just limited to going straight up and down through z levels.

Walls are a bit different. They sort of act as a floor to the level above, but not really. Fliers can squeak through the lack of a proper floor on the level directly above a wall.

[Garath]

considering the situation then: no, you're not save