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[Malmensa]

I have a fairly young fort, trying to get a sable water source. Around 8 Z levels below my temple, hospital, tavern and other nice places for dwarves to spend time, I have dug a 3 z level trench. Plan is to dig some holes down, fill the trench with water, then construct some nice wells.

Problem I have is that miners are scared of the fall. I figured they would dig the channel down, take a 3 Z level fall, and maybe spend a week in hospital recovering. A 3 Z level fall should produce minor injuries at most. My hospital is ready! The miners however, just stop with a "dangerous terrain" message.

How do I get my minors to dig out that last bit?

[Kryten42]

I probably would build a staircase into the trench and deconstruct it when its done, or access tunnels in every z-level which I close off with walls when done.
There are probably better ways to do this though, I am still a noob

[anewaname]

Yeah... better to have stairs or gradual ramps for the path down. Dwarfs take their health seriously and do not like falling :p

[Pvt. Pirate]

in 44.09 my dorfs channel out a tile while standing next to it, so they don't have to fall down.