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[Mishrak]

So I had a dwarf go into a strange mood and claim a Mechanic's workshop.  Nothing out of the ordinary here.  He wanted a few materials I didn't have, and wasn't prepared to produce.  I knew he was going to go insane and I wanted to protect my fort accordingly.  So I removed surrounding workshops and stairs and walled him in so that when he inevitably went nuts, the rest of the fort would be OK. 

Sure enough after some time, he went into a melancholy.  When I checked his area, he was...gone?  I found him on the floor below, and then I quickly walled him up again but it was unfortunate because now a whole bunch of dwarves saw him all melancholy and now they're stressed out.

How exactly did this happen?  I'm quite confused.

[thegoatgod_pan]

odds are he climbed out somehow, especially if you were removing stairs. Since climbing is in the game, isolating an area is harder

[Mishrak]

Dwarves can climb over walls that are underground?

I had to channel out the stairs and then build walls on top of them, but I don't see how he could have gotten out.  I had removed the upstair connection as well.

[Brewster]

I've had a few bugs where dwarves got into locations when everything was sealed off, thought Toady cleared most of those bugs. Most likely there is a gap you left where they can climb up or down, everything had a floor and ceiling?

[Thisfox]

If the strange mood caused teleportation, then the dorf I had who mooded up a ladder (picking fruit) would have been able to get out of his tree and go work. Instead, I had to dig a hole under his stepladder in order for him to go claim a workshop. Different point in the mood, but still...

I think it's likely your dorf climbed out, over the walls. Possibly it was easier to climb the workshop, then the walls. They can go some distance upward or downward if they have nothing better to do with their time.

[Mishrak]

So indoor walls don't go to the ceiling?

[Graknorke]

Chances are the stairs left some weird diagonal somewhere that he climbed through.

[Mishrak]

He ended up on the floor below.  The north wall of that little square is where I had to remove some stairs by channeling down, and then I built the wall on top of the down stairs which also had the up stair removed from the level below.