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Luraien

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Caves and floods
« on: July 29, 2010, 06:29:45 pm »
After completing a quest in a deep underground cave, all upwards ramps became flooded and the current was too strong to swim against. Unsure of any possible exits I ventured deeper looking for other possible exists. Ten minutes later and I ran into a giant cave spider which ripped me apart. Are there any other entrances and exits to these huge underground caverns, or once you go in can you only leave the same way?
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Re: Caves and floods
« Reply #1 on: July 29, 2010, 08:29:42 pm »
I've accidentally found a cave and i went to slaughter the lion next to the entrance, i dodged the lion and fell 5 stories into water, when i got out a hydra destroyed me...
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Re: Caves and floods
« Reply #2 on: July 29, 2010, 08:39:42 pm »
You can escape, yes. You just need to be within the boundaries (it only counts x and y coordinates, not z) of a above-ground site, acceptable ones are any displayed on your mini-map/compass. You can then just fast travel out, as it's assumed your adventurer can somehow find his way from the underground, no matter how deep. The only way into a cavern though is through the caves, like the one you found, or through an abandoned fort that had cavern access (and still does)

Now, explain to me why the hell the entrance flooded, and why it only became a problem after a fight? If you hadn't simply been eaten by a GCS I'd call this the calling of an epic journey and tell you to continue onward through the underground. Most fun would that be.
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Luraien

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Re: Caves and floods
« Reply #3 on: July 30, 2010, 07:48:33 am »
I had no idea, thanks for that!

Also, I'm clueless as to what triggered the flood. I managed to swim up a ramp just before the current pushed me back, and saw the lit-up uncovered path I'd lead to previously walking down (so it was definitely the way I'd come in). I just wish I'd have been able to get past that spider, I was there for ages searching around, then before I knew it a wall of text followed by death ensued.
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Kaelem Gaen

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Re: Caves and floods
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2010, 07:34:05 pm »
Chances are that the cavern broke through an aquifer somewhere and so it began to flood.

For some reason in the case of the underground caverns it doesn't seem to dry the local brick out.
I had that happen to me once in Adventure mode, where the cave just randomly started to flood, then I noticed the walls were made of a material that can be an aquifer.
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