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[OddProphet]

While doing some exploratory mining my alert screen became flooded with various dorfs suddenly "unable to find paths".  They are beginning to starve to death and I have become concerned.

[bluea]

Just as a guess: ramps can be tricky.

You can make ramps that "look fine" but don't work, and you can break them via mining nearby later.

Put the cursor on one of the confused dwarves and trace the expected route to the beer with the cursor.

[OddProphet]

The only ramp I have is multiple z-levels above...

[Tcei]

hmm.. are there any doors/floodgates/bridges between your dwarves and the food that are locked/lowered/raised respectivly. Any walls or channels built between your dwarves and food. Any flooding? Are the dwarves in question in workshops that were just built? Most workshops have tiles that cant be walked on these are darkgreen x's when you're building them; I lost my first fort to this.

Alternativly, are the exploratory tunnels you dug below the food level, and are the dwarves in question on this level? Did you dig down stairs to get there but no up stairs to get back up? hmm.. thats all I can think of.

[Sutremaine]

Put the cursor on one of the confused dwarves and trace the expected route to the beer with the cursor.

Alternatively, draft one of the dwarves and station them along the route until they refuse to move.

Or, attempt to build doors along the route. Either it'll give a 'no doors available' message until you reach the trouble spot, or there will be a different number available than usual.