diff --git a/doc/fixes37.0 b/doc/fixes37.0
index 96c85cfba..cc0d32d33 100644
--- a/doc/fixes37.0
+++ b/doc/fixes37.0
@@ -980,6 +980,8 @@ changing engraving to an occupation resulted in not dulling a weapon used to
 a change to wounded legs handling resulted in not recovering lost dexterity
 	or receiving the "leg(s) feel better" message if wound time expired
 	rather than having legs be explicitly healed
+turning movement into commands interfered with using pick-axe plus autodig
+	in downward direction
 
 curses: 'msg_window' option wasn't functional for curses unless the binary
 	also included tty support
diff --git a/src/do.c b/src/do.c
index d3a472b05..ba4a7cb7b 100644
--- a/src/do.c
+++ b/src/do.c
@@ -1070,6 +1070,7 @@ dodown(void)
         } else if (!trap || !is_hole(trap->ttyp)
                    || !Can_fall_thru(&u.uz) || !trap->tseen) {
             if (flags.autodig && !g.context.nopick && uwep && is_pick(uwep)) {
+                u.dz = 1; /* the #down command doesn't call set_move_cmd() */
                 return use_pick_axe2(uwep);
             } else {
                 You_cant("go down here.");