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[AncientEnemy]

I've doodled some examples because I can't seem to adequately explain this without getting alot of basic but un-helpful replies about traders needing 3 tiles of access.

I have an almost completely flat map, with a small ridge that goes up 1 z level along the southern border, like this:


Z0:Z+1:

If I were to completely mine/channel out the Z+1 level, leaving a 1 tile wide wall like this:

New Z0:

would traders ever be cut off from my site if they tried to spawn in the south, since there's the 1 tile wall i can't do anything about? or will they automatically choose one of the accessable sides of my map to arrive from?

[zchris13]

Make a line of constructed ramps right next to the wall. If you hadn't mined out the entire hill, I would have told you to just dig out a ramp.  But you did this.

[AncientEnemy]

ah, i didnt realize they could come in -on- a ramp

[Variance]

That, and, if you don't build ramps, they'll just come in from places other than the south. They will come on whatever routes are available, so even if your entire map has walls along the edge like that except for a single 3-tile access point to the rest of the world map, they'll still come through there; so you don't have to fill the entire side of the map with ramps unless you really want to.