I always though there where stairs that went up and down in the doors, and the wells are high pressure holes that suck in and blow out objects, that may be volcanic or tectonic in origin (the Big Well, anybody?). Of course, the mudokons built most of them years ago, but I suspect they were powered by a natural force already present.
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