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Author Topic: How to get items in/out of a walled off area?  (Read 1087 times)

Merendel

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Re: How to get items in/out of a walled off area?
« Reply #15 on: June 25, 2014, 12:42:06 am »

one approach that is mostly automatic and mostly safe would involve minecarts.  setup a rout to have a minecart filled with whatever.  Have that minecart get pushed so it falls down a hole into your room and stops on a trackstop set to dump the carts content onto an adjacent stockpile.  Have that trackstop set to push it off another dropoff that leads it back into the main fort.  As long as you build the track/cartdrop on one side of the room where the dwarf should never go asside from when he needs to give the cart a push back into the main fort chances of him geting run over/shotguned are minimal.  you could even rig things in such a way that it drops off its stuff and keeps on rolling over a cliff needing no interaction from the dwarf in the cell.  as the dwarves cant path over a dropoff they would effectively be sealed off from the rest of the fort.
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