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[Acperience]

Thread title question.

My dwarves refuse to walk up/down this ramp. Depot is listed as accessible so the game thinks it works as a 3 tile wide ramp.

excuse the bad cropping this was done in a hurry.

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Edit: Oh crap it might be the floor grates :/
Edit2: Nope, not the grates ://

[NecroRebel]

Where's the wall that the ramps go up against? It looks like you have something like this (side view):

___/\___

In order for a ramp to work, it needs to be more like this:

___/W

Basically, you've got a mound of dirt in the middle of a floor there, and you need a mound of dirt against a wall. You've got a speed bump instead of a ramp. The fact that the depot is accessible doesn't matter in this case, as that check doesn't actually know if ramps are usable (probably due to a bug), but lets the accessibility go to other z-levels if there's ramp tiles present.

[Acperience]

Where's the wall that the ramps go up against? It looks like you have something like this (side view):

___/\___

In order for a ramp to work, it needs to be more like this:

___/W

Basically, you've got a mound of dirt in the middle of a floor there, and you need a mound of dirt against a wall. You've got a speed bump instead of a ramp. The fact that the depot is accessible doesn't matter in this case, as that check doesn't actually know if ramps are usable (probably due to a bug), but lets the accessibility go to other z-levels if there's ramp tiles present.

Will a raised drawbridge work instead of a wall?

[NecroRebel]

No. A wall, natural or constructed, will work. Nothing else.

[Quietust]

Additionally, the wall the ramp is braced against must have a walkable floor above it - ramps cannot double-back onto themselves.

The following ramp is valid:

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█████
██ __
__/██
█████
This, however, is invalid and will not work:

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█████
___ █
___/█
█████
In other words, in the following scenario, the only traversable path from the lower level to the upper level is by standing on the ramp and stepping to the left; likewise, the only way to get from the upper level to the lower level is by standing on the smoothed floor tile and stepping to the right:

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Z2
...
+▼.
...


Z1
...
█▲.
...