diff --git a/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/ai/move.dm b/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/ai/move.dm
index 48225f7f79..511b1985f0 100644
--- a/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/ai/move.dm
+++ b/code/modules/mob/living/silicon/ai/move.dm
@@ -51,6 +51,9 @@
 			continue
 		if(dy && (current.y * dy <= old.y * dy))
 			continue
+		//only let the player move to cameras on the same zlevel
+		if(current.z != old.z)
+			continue
 
 		var/shared_types = 0 //how many levels deep the old camera and the closest camera's areas share
 		//for instance, /area/A and /area/B would have shared_types = 2 (because of how dd_text2list works)