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[Warlord255]

I'm currently trying to pull off something monumentally insane... building a tower inside a Bottomless Pit. Cave-in support drop is currently optional.

Shenanigans aside, I'm just starting out and my workers keep getting periodic "Interrupted by Troll" messages, but there is no troll to be found... the only one I've seen is seven floors down and still behind a wall.

Some kind of proximity glitch, or the troll is targeting them somehow?

[Skizelo]

I think Dwarves are just preternaturally sensitive when it comes to threats (if you can see it, they can, and they don't care if the space in between is impassable).
Best advice I have is to train up some archers and kill that damn thing.

[Warlord255]

Done and done. Funny thing is, my first shot knocked him DOWN a floor (instead of into the chasm), and it kept hollering the message at me while my fellas dug more stairs so I could finish it off.

[Proteus]

If they use the same pathfinding algorithm to calculate the distance to a feared enemy like dwarves use to calculate the distance to work items , it wouldn´t matter if the troll is 5 or 50 z-levels away. In this case only the distance in x and y directions count.

[Roundabout Lout]

Put that map in the file depot if you succeed, I'd like to see that. Terrorform the area, and make a sprawling labyrinth down all the z-levels to the entrance at the bottom, and it would be an awesome adventurer challenge.

[Duke 2.0]

 Trolls were known in the old days for being able to offend people from long distances, often unseen. Thus why the internet version is also called 'trolls.'

 /sarcasm

 Happened to me with a yet-to-be-found chasm and Giant Cave Swallows.

[Warlord255]

Put that map in the file depot if you succeed, I'd like to see that. Terrorform the area, and make a sprawling labyrinth down all the z-levels to the entrance at the bottom, and it would be an awesome adventurer challenge.

Shit, I had not thought of that.

Also, what do you mean entrance at the bottom? Players are going to be going top-down if anything, and hitting the "destroy" lever, either trapping them as the tower and all its riches fall into the darkness or dooming them to climb twenty-odd levels of labyrinth.

But I dunno how cave generation works when you convert forts to adventure mode.

[Christes]

Ah yes, the chasm challenge