Why do my dwarves climb trees?
My base started on a mountain. I dismantled the wagon and made a large meeting area on two cliffs below. However it seems like that my units like to climb trees. In fact, one of my miners was found stuck in a tree rather than digging but eventually went down. I've searched dwarffortresswiki but only came across Adventure Mode. Is this a feature?
Best Answer
Its a feature. On the wiki it says:
Trees can be climbed in both fortress and adventurer mode. In densely wooded areas, the overlapping tree crowns can form a continuous canopy that can be traversed by walking, climbing and/or jumping. Both types of branches provide floor-like support for walking, but twigs are too frail to support the weight of a dwarf. All kinds of trunk tiles are treated as solid barriers, except trunk tips - they can be walked and jumped over.
I couldn't find any source where this is concerned as an issue so its not really a problem.
In adventurer mode you can climb them yourself by pressing H to first hold on it and then moving by pressing the movement keys, but I guess you already figured out.
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Answer 2
I think this is a feature and DF treats leaves and branches as normal pathable area. Nothing extraordinary or harmful about it, or at least I haven't encountered a case that would hurt (me).
It makes for funny situations in combat - I once had a squad of dorfs chasing a wereelephant through several trees, until it got too tired and slowed down.
Answer 3
This just happened to me, for some reason no one was chopping the tree and the staircase wasn't working so I just spawned in some water on the tree and it pushed the dwarf off it and onto the ground.
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