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[JerDGold]

Warning:  New to Dwarf Fortress

I've been following along with the CaptnDuck videos for a few days now and am on my second fourth fort, but I've encountered a problem that for some reason, I cannot designate anymore up/down or down stairways on my way to the magma pool.  I'm trying to dig into stone (granite I think?) and while I can dig laterally, I'm not able to dig down.  Could it be my picks? What else could I look at?

EDIT:  I also can no longer REMOVE designations with 'x'.

[pisskop]

Digging down shouldn't be a problem.

Unless you can see there is open space there.  Or glacier ice on rock.  Or you designate at the lowest accessible level without getting there.  Try channeling?

[Iamblichos]

You may have just gotten (un)lucky and reached the bottom without hitting magma.  Try mining to the sides on that level and you should hit warm stone soon enough.  DO NOT CONTINUE MINING on that level... unless you want !!FUN!!.  Go up a level, repeat, until you find the top of the magma pile.

[Remuthra]

Well, as long as it's not semi-molten stone or slade it should be fine.

[JerDGold]

Thanks for the replies, it was definetly NOT the bottom, because it was still stone and not semi-molten ston.  Not sure what happened, but I'm digging somewhere else.  Someone please take this game away from me.

[Melting Sky]

If you were chaining up/down stairs together one after another then perhaps you accidentally put an up stairs instead of the up/down stairs you intended. Look at the lowest stairs in the series and see if they are up/down like they should be.

[FrankMcFuzz]

Warning:  New to Dwarf Fortress

I've been following along with the CaptnDuck videos for a few days now and am on my second fourth fort, but I've encountered a problem that for some reason, I cannot designate anymore up/down or down stairways on my way to the magma pool.  I'm trying to dig into stone (granite I think?) and while I can dig laterally, I'm not able to dig down.  Could it be my picks? What else could I look at?

EDIT:  I also can no longer REMOVE designations with 'x'.

I have a suggestion.

Have you pressed caps lock?

[Quietust]

What version of Dwarf Fortress are you playing?

If the version number on the title screen is "0.28.181.40d", then you've probably reached the bottom of your embark region - back then, you only had 15 Z-levels of stone beneath the lowest surface elevation, and there were no caverns or magma seas.

[thecrimsonbeard]

EDIT:  I also can no longer REMOVE designations with 'x'.

I have a suggestion.

Have you pressed caps lock?

THIS...this gets me every once in awhile, and had me going for a minute the first time it happened.

[Necrisha]

It's at the point where I look for the light every time something funky happens- I always end up hitting capslock in the middle of an ambush, it gets annoying.

[GavJ]

In this particular case, caps lock would cause his entire screen to flash obnoxious neon red or green if he tried to enter the designations menu, since it would instead pull up caravan accessibility.
Which probably would have been mentioned as a symptom.