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[KittyTac]

Title. My plan would be: Build a minimal fort, construct a roller railroad going from the center to the edge of the map. Retire. Embark right next, do the same. Repeat until you cross the continent. Go on a ride with an adventurer.

[Shonai_Dweller]

Title. My plan would be: Build a minimal fort, construct a roller railroad going from the center to the edge of the map. Retire. Embark right next, do the same. Repeat until you cross the continent. Go on a ride with an adventurer.

It's tricky because you'd need some hackery to overlap fortress sites, otherwise the edges probably won't connect properly.

Hmmm...but fortresses can overlap adventure sites. So if you could mod adventurers to be able to build tracks then...maybe.

There's probably an easier way though. I'm sure others have tried.

[KittyTac]

Title. My plan would be: Build a minimal fort, construct a roller railroad going from the center to the edge of the map. Retire. Embark right next, do the same. Repeat until you cross the continent. Go on a ride with an adventurer.

It's tricky because you'd need some hackery to overlap fortress sites, otherwise the edges probably won't connect properly.

Hmmm...but fortresses can overlap adventure sites. So if you could mod adventurers to be able to build tracks then...maybe.

There's probably an easier way though. I'm sure others have tried.

Even if it has a ~7 tile gap, I'm sure minecarts can coast along quite a bit of ground, especially if they're really accelerated.

[bloop_bleep]

DFHack has "embark anywhere" utility.
Also, I think someone accomplished this in the Community Games & Stories thread.

[KittyTac]

DFHack has "embark anywhere" utility.
Also, I think someone accomplished this in the Community Games & Stories thread.

Link?

[Fleeting Frames]

Yeah, there was a community game where 1 player (I think it was TimelessBob?) did 16x1 embarks with elevated railway, and others used the save to make their own embarks to suggest which the original player then duplicated in their save if they felt like it.

You can go over five times faster than maximum roller speed with ramps, but as adventure mode is turn-based I'm not sure you could traverse the ground any faster than by walking in terms of IRL time, even ignoring the fact that you could have traversed the distance with an adventurer maybe over a thousand times in the time you were making the fortress.

While I don't know the specifics, I know it is possible to go beyond the initial 16x16 square by hacking. This behaves weirdly with brooks; though I can't say more.