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[demise_]

I would love to see vast bottemless pits and chasms return into the game. Will they ever be returning?

[Putnam]

Check out the top right of the object testing arena.

[demise_]

I know they are in area, but are they returning to world generation

[Putnam]

They do show up in a place, but it's kinda awkward due to the fact that there's stuff to fall into and creatures that fall report everything they see as they go (which is just more awkwardness, of course)

[Taffer]

They do show up in a place, but it's kinda awkward due to the fact that there's stuff to fall into and creatures that fall report everything they see as they go (which is just more awkwardness, of course)

I agree that this is probably the reasoning behind them not existing at present (aside from one place, as you mentioned). They do otherwise exist, though: I've embarked many times on sites that have large holes connecting different cavern levels that my dwarves can look down. They aren't bottomless, but they are underground chasms. Might be nice if they connected to the surface more often.

More underground features separate from cavern layers would make for a more varied underground, but that's a separate suggestion. As far as I can tell this particular suggestion already exists in the game -- they just aren't bottomless and they aren't labelled as caverns. They don't need to be either, because now we have multiple z-levels and we can see that they're caverns, not just take the game's word for it.

[Sizik]

Also, bottomless pits/chasms were in the game when it was just stone all the way to the bottom of the map. Now that we have the magma sea (among other things), it's more difficult to put in something "bottomless".

[Urist Tilaturist]

Deep chasms are fine, but they should fall into magma, since the DF world has a magma mantle like ours. A chasm sticking through the whole planet and out of the other side is just daft. A quick death by magma would also stop creatures and objects from falling forever and lagging the game.