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Dwarf Fortress => DF Adventure Mode Discussion => Topic started by: Fieari on February 14, 2012, 09:08:49 pm

Title: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Fieari on February 14, 2012, 09:08:49 pm
I've found a number of "Sewer Access" locations, which are grates in the road.  How do I actually enter said grates?  < and > don't work.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: freeformschooler on February 14, 2012, 09:12:23 pm
To be honest I wish we could forcibly drop through the grates. Maybe flying creatures can? I don't know. Either way, go to the castle in a town to find an entrance to the sewers/catacombs. Occasionally a cathedral (look for light blue text when on the town map) will have an entrance too.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Theropod Watcher on February 14, 2012, 09:40:26 pm
It lists on the travel screen where lists houses, well, all kinds of shops and other stuff that's on that tile. Sometime, it will say Sewer Entrance in purple
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Greyejoy on February 14, 2012, 09:53:52 pm
Yeah, the issue is that we can't open the grates. I've found entrances inside castles though.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Theropod Watcher on February 14, 2012, 10:02:50 pm
Ahh. Sorry bout that. And yeah, I found one in a castle as well, until the criminals in the basement murdered me. >_>
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Koronii on February 14, 2012, 10:38:20 pm
The grates aren't the sewer access, the sewer access is just a plain stairway that leads down into a section of the sewers.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Greyejoy on February 14, 2012, 10:40:03 pm
Quote from: Koronii on February 14, 2012, 10:38:20 pm
The grates aren't the sewer access, the sewer access is just a plain stairway that leads down into a section of the sewers.

I didn't see any stairs around the grate area, which on the fast travel map is marked as sewer access. Did I miss them?
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Monkeyfacedprickleback on February 14, 2012, 10:50:29 pm
a sewer accessis generally off the road and looks like a rampin the ally between two buildings.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Quatch on February 17, 2012, 03:39:36 pm
Bears repeating:

Grates are not sewer access. You need to wander around until you find the way in.

Remember, things that show up on the travel screen (eg sewer access) are good for a 3x3 or so area, so you need to search.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Shinziril on February 17, 2012, 03:43:17 pm
Yeah, the actual sewer entrance will either be a down-ramp or a down staircase just kinda sitting in the middle of the ground, possibly in a little alleyway (I saw one that was just next to somebody's house out on the outskirts of town).  Given that it's only a single tile, it can be fairly easy to miss.  The sewer grates are entirely unrelated to entering the sewers - you'll note that they show up everywhere, even when "Sewer Entrance" isn't listed on the travel screen. 
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Dwarven WMD on February 17, 2012, 04:04:19 pm
Yet somehow you can drink the sewer water through the grating.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Grax on February 18, 2012, 12:48:25 am
Quote from: Dwarven WMD on February 17, 2012, 04:04:19 pm
Yet somehow you can drink the sewer water through the grating.
Mmm... Delicious.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Hummingbird on February 18, 2012, 04:42:35 am
It should also be mentioned that the castle basements are not the same as the sewers. They're completely separate.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Wizard on February 18, 2012, 06:57:18 pm
Does anyone know how to open floor hatches? I can't figure it out. I thought you would stand next to them and press 'u' like with wells...
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Isher on February 18, 2012, 06:59:17 pm
Spoiler (click to show/hide)

If you look at the minimap showing the level below (top right), the sewer access seems to be connected to the river, which sucks for me. There is no stairwell or anything else.

Just wanted to post this in case it helps, i'ma head in there if I can manage to not drown.

(Edit)
Drowned. But it does connect to the sewer.

Quote from: Wizard on February 18, 2012, 06:57:18 pm
Does anyone know how to open floor hatches? I can't figure it out. I thought you would stand next to them and press 'u' like with wells...

I thought you just go down them like they're a stairway - if what I was going through last night was a floor hatch, which I think it was.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Jacob/Lee on February 18, 2012, 07:11:46 pm
Yeah, if a hatch is covering stairs then you go down the stairs normally. If it's a ramp, however, you need to be standing on a certain side then moving in the direction of the hatch to go down, like all ramps from what I've seen.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Isher on February 18, 2012, 07:13:24 pm
I updated my post earlier with another possible way that one can "enter" sewers. Can't find a staircase but it says the entrance is there, and of course I drowned trying to check it out.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Hummingbird on February 18, 2012, 08:08:46 pm
Quote from: Hummingbird on February 18, 2012, 04:42:35 am
It should also be mentioned that the castle basements are not the same as the sewers. They're completely separate.
Oops, looks like I was wrong about this. They intersect sometimes. Looks like I need to play this game more.

Well I don't NEED to play this game any more than I am now considering the work that I have to get done but you get the idea
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: Isher on February 18, 2012, 09:19:00 pm
OK, I wasn't thinking right,

The place with *** is the center of the point on the zoomed out map, i.e. the middle of a city or the middle of a square of plains, etc.

Like others said, you have to walk around partially zoomed out til you see sewer access in the buildings list.

It'll be a 9 square area that you can find this, and you just go to the middle square and look around behind a building for a stairway.

I taught myself to swim and tried going through that drain earlier but it was wall to wall water so I drowned again.
Title: Re: How do I enter the sewer?
Post by: WaffleEggnog on February 18, 2012, 09:35:17 pm
I managed to get into the sewer, but it wasint the way you would think. I didint go down via grate, i was swimming across a river outside a town and saw a little passege leading toward the city and was luered into it by some un-guarded loots. After swimming around a while, i realised that this was the sewers of said town (Shortly after drowning :( )