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[ManaUser]

The wiki says wagons can enter from "any" edge, so I thought it might be interesting to try building a completely underground path, so trade caravans can come even during a siege. I know you can't normally dig all the way to the edge of the map, but I had the clever idea to turn an underground river into an underground roadway.

For the record, it was unsuccessful. (Despite what the (D)epot Access screen said.)

So I wonder, has anyone else tried this? Could it work at all? Or do wagons entry points have to be Outside/Above Ground?

[Quietust]

Reportedly, wagons require a 4x4 region without ramps at the edge of the map in order to appear.

[Chthonic]

Actually . . . I'm curious about this.  If you build a deep-underground fortress on a map with a Dwarven tunnel-road, will the caravans take the tunnel-road to get to the depot?

[dragon0421]

Actually . . . I'm curious about this.  If you build a deep-underground fortress on a map with a Dwarven tunnel-road, will the caravans take the tunnel-road to get to the depot?

As long as they start above ground and there is a path and depot there, caravans will go deep into your fortress. I always put my depot in my fort.

[ManaUser]

Reportedly, wagons require a 4x4 region without ramps at the edge of the map in order to appear.

I had that, just. Though not all of it was paved. I'll try paving that last bit and see what happens.

I don't know what else it could have been besides the underground location, I don't suppose cave spider webs would be a problem.

Edit: No dice. They still showed up on the surface, sans wagons. (Whereupon most were promptly slaughtered by beak dogs.)

[eviscerator]

I make curtain walls or channel moats about as close to the edge as I can come, then a network of underground roads from different access points (so I can access lower z-level forests, etc.) that all meet up into a long 3-wide hall going to a surface trade depot.  Takes all of the challenge out of the game though, as only kobolds can make it to base, and then the cougars, grizzlies, and war dogs get them...

[gtmattz]

I tried the same thing as the OP with no luck either. I just had an idea however which may or may not work so I am going to have to try it.  The idea is to build a curtain wall around the whole map and fill it all in with magma thus making the only accessible edge tiles the underground river entrance.  Even if it doesn't work, I think it is a worthy task purely for the sheer dwarflieness of the project.

[Sutremaine]

Reportedly, wagons require a 4x4 region without ramps at the edge of the map in order to appear.

Is that 4x4 with anything but ramps? I've been forcing traders to appear on a 3-wide path using raised bridges. No ramps involved at all with that one.