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Bien

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How the heck do I get stairs to work?
« on: October 30, 2007, 08:23:00 am »
Read the title.
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Arnos

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Re: How the heck do I get stairs to work?
« Reply #1 on: October 30, 2007, 08:43:00 am »
I tried to get stairs to work also, I couldn't. I just used ramps instead.
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Re: How the heck do I get stairs to work?
« Reply #2 on: October 30, 2007, 09:43:00 am »
This probably could have gone in the Questions forum, but here it goes:

On the top Z-level, you Designate an area for downward stairs (I think it's 'j').  You then go one layer down and put Upwards stairs ('i') or Up/Down stairs (not sure) below the downward stairs.

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Re: How the heck do I get stairs to work?
« Reply #3 on: October 30, 2007, 09:43:00 am »
You build 1 portion of the stairs then when it built you build the other section on the other level. For example build a downway stairs then once it made go one level down and build a upway stairs on the same spot.
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Re: How the heck do I get stairs to work?
« Reply #4 on: October 30, 2007, 04:59:00 pm »
Yeah, stairs work in pairs.  (It rhymes.)

Dig an up-stairs on the level below, then dig a down-stairs on the level above.  Up/down-stairs count as both, but are ugly.

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Re: How the heck do I get stairs to work?
« Reply #5 on: October 30, 2007, 05:10:00 pm »
Took me a while to figure that too. Should probably go in the wiki. By the way, how do I make a ramp down? I only saw upwards ramps in my list...
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Re: How the heck do I get stairs to work?
« Reply #6 on: October 30, 2007, 05:12:00 pm »
I think I saw someone else say that an upramp is also a downramp.

Haven't had a chance to test myself but have been reading the forums all day (at work).

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Re: How the heck do I get stairs to work?
« Reply #7 on: October 30, 2007, 07:34:00 pm »
To build a ramp down, place a Ramp Up on the level below, immediately below where you want the ramp down to appear.

I don't think it's actually possible to build a ramp inside a mountain from down to up, due to a quirk with the way the game handles ramps, so ironically the Ramp Up is used for building ramps down only.

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