v0.34 Talk:Minecart

References

Check this list before removing any content. --Dree12 (talk) 00:38, 17 May 2012 (UTC)

• adventurer can take ride in minecart [1]
• animals ignore traffic designations [2]
• dwarf drops baby when boarding cart [3]
• floors remove engraved tracks [4]
• fluids are heavy and can kill momentum [5]
• guided minecarts ignore rollers [6]
• items falling out can hurt dwarves [7]
• magma-filled cart doesn't harm rider [8]
• minecarts can be stolen [9]
• minecarts moving fast enough can skip over water [10]
• minecarts have huge capacities [11][12]
• rollers don't work if frozen [13]
• rollers use two power per tile at highest speed [14]
• skipping does not depend on weight [15]

Minecart Tricks

Has anyone considered compiling a list of unusual things you can do with minecarts, like dwarven rollercoasters or traps?

Sure. Here are a few examples:

The Stupid Dwarf Trick using a perfectly agile soldier to create metal could be done using a cart moving back and forth on rollers.

A clock generator using a pressure plate and a minecart can be made with on-ticks at easily adjusted intervals. Simply put a roller at either end, or, even more simply, make a loop track with a pressure plate in the middle and adjacent rollers pushing outwards. While the rollers are powered, the minecart will continue to roll back and forth on the tracks and trigger the pressure plate again and again.

Dwarves can be flung across impassable chasms using carts; this is similar to the H.E.L.P.

Squad cars: Have a powered system to move your military quickly to the front entrance of your fortress. Give all your military hauling jobs, and have a series of carts hidden behind a bridge; the lever closes them in and opens the cars, then the squad moves at extremely high speeds to wherever the track takes them. This is horribly impractical, but very dwarvenly. Note that full speed rollers move carts about a tile every two ticks, which is much faster than most dwarves. It's an insane amount of work to get it to work, but it might be worth it? The Real Marauder 01:23, 22 May 2012 (UTC)

I support the Squad cars idea; we may not be able to mount actual beasts into battle, but now we have the next best thing (I have a delirious/delicious image on my mind right now I wish you could see). Also, how about carving tracks running straight from one end of your entrance corridor to the other, with a lava moat on the innermost part so you could fling magma-filled minecarts to run down invaders? It could use a bridge-based minecart gate as suggested by The Real Marauder above. (This assumes carts drop contents on collision, as suggested by Toady's 05/10/2012 entry.) --Seikatsukan 22:52, 6 June 2012 (UTC)