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[flamewolf393]

I was channeling to make a shaft, making sure to build a staircase at each level, but now for some reason my dwarves will not build a staircase at the bottom of the shaft and BOTH my miners are stuck down there. I even tried making ramps from down there, but nothing seems to work.

[Loud Whispers]

Give us more details, hard to tell what your problem is :/

[Poindexterity]

have them dig a few squares over in whatever direction is safe, then dig their way up via stairs.

[Couchmonster]

Dig stairs with another miner and on the last z-level you make a masion or carpenter build a stair.

[612DwarfAvenue]

"What's the deep dark pit, that turns mining operations to shit?
"The shaft!"
"You see this shaft is a bad mother--"
"Shut your mouth!"
"But I'm talkin' about the shaft!"
"Then we can dig it."

Yeah, i'm bored.

[McDwarf]

Are you trying to use building materials that are at the bottom of the shaft that your builders can't reach?

[Aspgren]

did you make sure to build up/down staircases?

[Garath]

use b - C - and then whatever staircase you need

[S!F]

Activate the masonry labor for one of the trapped miners, construct a staircase, and make sure that you use a stone from the bottom of the pit.

The first step is key and it's saved me from a lot of mining blunders.

[McDwarf]

Fill the shaft with water and let the miners swim out?

[Loud Whispers]

Fill the shaft with water and let the miners swim out?

Make sure they know how to swim first

[Sphalerite]

Flood the shaft with magma.  That will remove your miners (and anything else not magma-safe) from the shaft quickly and efficiently.

[Loud Whispers]

Flood the shaft with magma.  That will remove your miners (and anything else not magma-safe) from the shaft quickly and efficiently.

And it makes a cool lava lamp.

[McDwarf]

Well, if you have magma, you could fill the shaft with obsidian and then the miners could carve stairs to freedom.

Alternatively, you could have your miners build a bridge and lever so you could launch them out of your shaft.

[Spish]

Just dump food and booze down the shaft. They can live there for the rest of their lives.