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[Chattox]

I'd like to get to the tasty blue stuff without having to go through the caverns and risk all kinds of fun (not that mining out the blue stuff wont lead to gratuitous amounts of fun, anyway...). Is there any way of doing this without getting rid of caverns all together? I like my mushrooms...

[FleshForge]

Just turn on masonry labor for every dwarf and brick up any breaches as you dig, it's not really very dangerous if you don't screw around.

[candylord]

If you're careful with DFreveal, I spose you could just plot a shaft that managed to dodge all of the caverns, I spose...

[Chattox]

Just turn on masonry labor for every dwarf and brick up any breaches as you dig, it's not really very dangerous if you don't screw around.

Can walls not be destroyed by building destroyer enemies?

[doctorspoof]

Constructed walls can only be destroyed by your dorfs.

If you really don't want any caverns at all you can turn them off in the world gen settings, and it means the tasty blue stuff will be higher up too.

[Quietust]

If you really don't want any caverns at all you can turn them off in the world gen settings, and it means the tasty blue stuff will be higher up too.

There's just one problem with that - without subterranean water, there will be no subterranean plants in the entire world.

[doctorspoof]

Hence why I dig through and wall off the entrance.

Nothing stopping you from making an above-ground farm for tasty whip vine

[Chattox]

Nothing stopping you from making an above-ground farm for tasty whip vine

The sun, you elf

[pushy]

If you're careful with DFreveal, I spose you could just plot a shaft that managed to dodge all of the caverns, I spose...

You don't even necessarily have to be careful or use outside help. I got my miners to dig a 2x2 shaft down to get to the caverns in one game a couple of weeks ago and somehow missed the first two caverns entirely, and if I'd been digging just one tile to the east I'd have missed the third cavern as well. Dug another 2x2 shaft in another area of the fort and again missed the first cavern

[jiggymonkey]

Just turn on masonry labor for every dwarf and brick up any breaches as you dig, it's not really very dangerous if you don't screw around.

Ultranoob question:  I have not seen "brick up" command.  Which of the command menus might I find that under?  My mine has way too many exits to the surface.

[Lord Darkstar]

Use (b)uild (C)onstruction (w)all.

The (C)onstruction menu allows you to build walls, floors, stairs, and other items in empty spaces, rather than having to "dig" them out of the ground. Allows you to make changes to stuff you've dug (ie, dig out a gold ore vein, then wall it off because you breached a cavern while following the vein).

[Auto Slaughter]

Like pushy I've done pretty well just digging straight down.  On a desert map with no fuel I sunk a staircase all the way down to level 0.  I hit the caverns in a couple of places but usually I could simply wall up the opening I'd made and on the last clear level tunnel over to somewhere I could see  as solid rock on the cavern level, and continue going down.

[jiggymonkey]

Use (b)uild (C)onstruction (w)all.

The (C)onstruction menu allows you to build walls, floors, stairs, and other items in empty spaces, rather than having to "dig" them out of the ground. Allows you to make changes to stuff you've dug (ie, dig out a gold ore vein, then wall it off because you breached a cavern while following the vein).

awesome thank you!

[BigJake]

If you run into the top of a cavern with a stairway you could also simply build an up stair ((b)-(C)-(u)) on top of the up/down stair you dug.  That will cut off the stairwell and allow the dwarf building it to still get back up.

[FleshForge]

Yeah lately I just go straight down also, although e.g. when you hit water obviously you have to dig in a different direction.