# Candlebury's guide to building in multiple Z levels!

**URL:** <https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/candleburys-guide-to-building-in-multiple-z-levels/2708>\
**Category:** The Bunker\
**Created:** [August 15, 2013, 9:32pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/candleburys-guide-to-building-in-multiple-z-levels/2708 "2013-08-15T21:32:09Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Zireael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zireael/32/956_2.png) [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 9:33am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/candleburys-guide-to-building-in-multiple-z-levels/2708/21 "2014-08-15T09:33:50Z")

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> [@KA101](#):
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> [quote=“Zireael, post:13, topic:2708”]I don’t think you can build a basement yet.

It’s dangerous to dig alone! Take this.

KA101 hands Zireael and vivat each a Pickaxe, entrenching tool, hatchet, hammer, 8 2x4s, a long rope, and Construction 5[/quote]

I thought it was only for stairs and not for a basement?

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**Author:** ![kevin.granade](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/kevin.granade/32/1316_2.png) [@kevin.granade](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/kevin.granade)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 5:37pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/candleburys-guide-to-building-in-multiple-z-levels/2708/22 "2014-08-15T17:37:45Z")

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Once you have the stairs, you can go down them and start mining out laterally.

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**Author:** ![KA101](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/278dde/32.png) [@KA101](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/KA101)\
**Post date:** [August 15, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/candleburys-guide-to-building-in-multiple-z-levels/2708/23 "2014-08-15T22:11:23Z")

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> [@Kevin Granade](#):
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> Once you have the stairs, you can go down them and start mining out laterally.

And for the record, that’s accomplished by applying the pickaxe or jackhammer (or sonic-resonator).

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**Author:** ![vivat](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/vivat/32/98_2.png) [@vivat](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/vivat)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 3:38am UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/candleburys-guide-to-building-in-multiple-z-levels/2708/24 "2014-08-17T03:38:13Z")

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well, - in short, I did a basement under existing house. and learned it does not spoil the NOR ANY floors ceilings in the house-patient for implanting the basement …

how?  
heh! listen here 🙂 Necessity is the mother of invention - as we say in Russia.

do ONE - dig downstair from the outside of the house (this is important !!!) - we get on the ground the “\>” symbol  
do TWO - expand the basement under the house to the needed side until presumably we will find ourselves UNDER the house. simply under the house  
DO THREE - from underground (it is not basement yet, we need expand underground room after that) dig UPstairs - and we go out WITHIN the house, ceilings are not damaged, the floors too undisturbed. and we get \> within the house.

voila!

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**Author:** ![Zireael](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/discourse.cataclysmdda.org/zireael/32/956_2.png) [@Zireael](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/u/Zireael)\
**Post date:** [August 17, 2014, 6:20pm UTC](https://discourse.cataclysmdda.org/t/candleburys-guide-to-building-in-multiple-z-levels/2708/25 "2014-08-17T18:20:39Z")

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Thanks vivat!

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