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[UltimaGecko]

So, I started a fortress in a pretty flat area (...well, it had mountains on the regional map, but they ended up being slopes of '1')...Anyway, I had to start by digging straight down, which was fine, until the stone clutter prevented me from effectively placing buildings.

The small hill I started on actually sloped down towards the next level down (which was the level my 'underground' fort was on; so I eventually just dug some tunnels right outside. I created a stone stockpile right near my stairs going down and the dwarves are intent on going out the super long tunnels and climbing the hill when they deposit things in the stockpiles. They took a 40x long trip to avoid the stairs.

I'm not sure if that's intentional or not (as they just hopped on out once I built a ramp to the surface), but it seems kind of strange.

[Deto]

Hmm, I guess carrying large boulders across stairs is painful task.. But you can use the new traffic feature to sort it out, just make the stairs heavy traffic and the hillside low/restricted  

[Sowelu]

Do you have stairs going down from above, as well as stairs going up from below?  Unless you have both of those, your stairs are impassable.

[otherdwarf]

It seems that heavy things (like boulders and logs) can not be transported via stairs.

[UltimaGecko]

Watching some of my dwarves again, and - despite having ramps now - some of the insist upon going around the entire hillside to walk down the natural hill and come in the other mined-out entrance.

I just had a craftsdwarf pick up a stone, bring it passed the ramp into the fort, 20 tiles to the west, then down a hill, then 5 tiles to the mouth of the mine (and then a 20+tile hallway back to where he could have just gone down the ramp, pretty much).

Apparently they prefer natural slopes for some inexplicable reason.

[Morkilus]

I've seen this as well... instead of taking the underground stairs to deposit a turtle, my fisherdwarf went around the hillside, through a stream, and all the way back up another hill to get to the food stockpile. It had to be 10-20 times further.

[Sappho]

quote:Originally posted by otherdwarf:
<STRONG>It seems that heavy things (like boulders and logs) can not be transported via stairs.</STRONG>

Not true.  I have been storing my rock and wood underground with the workshops above, and they are hauling them up and down the stairs without trouble.

[Lightman]

quote:Originally posted by Sappho:
<STRONG>
Not true.  I have been storing my rock and wood underground with the workshops above, and they are hauling them up and down the stairs without trouble.</STRONG>

Ditto.