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[Farmerbob]

I believe Toady has indicated that he will allow mine carts to be filled with liquid?

He's currently experimenting with cart-based disasters which will clearly have a lot of use for fortress defense 

However I'm curious - how many of you are really just waiting to be able to load a few mine carts with magma and send them on a crash course to arc through the air off the tracks, then smash through the ranks of the enemy, finally exploding against a wall, spewing magma everywhere?

[Tirunus]

Screw that, I am going to build the large Urist collider.

[khearn]

I want mine carts to be able to carry magma so I can easily haul enough magma for a few forges/smelters up from the depths without having to hassle with a pump stack or magma pump.

Of course, carving tracks all the way up from the magma sea may be just as much of a pain. :-/

[Sadrice]

i've been thinking about how to make a track from the depths, and i think it would be a pain to designate, but with a macro it would mostly be mining and stone detailing, with a little mechanics for the rollers and such, which is much better than a pumpstack, which requires three compontents that need to be crafted for every z level.  my main concern is that i might have to dig separate shafts for hauling different items, as i don't think the loading points will be linkable to levers or anything.  that would be very nice, though, to be able to say "load this cart full of hematite, and then pull the lever that sends it to the foundry", or you might get ore dumped in the magma cistern.

[Thelogman]

I don't think you can make levers that are linked to the contents of the cart,  but you can designate carts to be filled of certain things and for them to be "pushed off" by dwarves once they reach a certain fullness.

Also carts can trigger pressure plates.

So you could make a stockpile at the bottom where you mine out your ore and coal, and then set that cart to get sent off, powered by rollers, up stairs, and then set it to be pushed back down when it's empty.

You could also set up a system whereby hematite and coal is balanced, through applications of pressure plates and carts. Have the iron cart get sent off when it is full, and on the way, it triggers a pressure plate that only triggers if the cart is filled. That pressure plate locks off the iron mines and opens the door to the coal mines.

Then just modify the ratios so that the game knows how much of each you want in the cart and you could make sure you only ever have exactly enough coal and iron.