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Koji

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Mine cars!
« on: November 06, 2007, 10:38:00 am »
It'd be really nice to set up tracks and a mine car system for hauling large amounts of stone out of the cave! I think it'd fix the "ogod there are rocks all over the place" problem, and with a little ingenuity, one could set up an automated system to take the cart in and out. Maybe via mechanisms or trained donkeys?

It'd look neat, anyway.

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Re: Mine cars!
« Reply #1 on: November 06, 2007, 10:42:00 am »
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Originally posted by Koji:
<STRONG>It'd be really nice to set up tracks and a mine car system for hauling large amounts of stone out of the cave! I think it'd fix the "ogod there are rocks all over the place" problem, and with a little ingenuity, one could set up an automated system to take the cart in and out. Maybe via mechanisms or trained donkeys?

It'd look neat, anyway.</STRONG>

Agreed, this sounds like a good idea. It would make hauling much more easier.

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« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2007, 12:22:00 pm »
Hauling in general could be revamped.  A single dwarf always carries one item, no matter the weight.  It could be a low iron boot, or it could be a magnetite ore stone.  But he's only carrying one!

Instead, give dwarves a carrying limit, or allow them to take a bin to fill up with items from an area, carry the bin back, repeat.  This wouldn't fix stones per se, but mine cars or the like would work.

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Re: Mine cars!
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2007, 04:32:00 pm »
http://www.bay12games.com/cgi-local/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=001658    This same thread was posted earlier today, and at least a few other times in the past few months.   Surely you could've at least put in the effort to look at the forum, or the dev notes, as Toady asks, before posting this?
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« Reply #4 on: November 06, 2007, 05:03:00 pm »
well to be fair, does the dev notes have a search engine?  That thing is awfuly big now.
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Re: Mine cars!
« Reply #5 on: November 06, 2007, 05:21:00 pm »
I just go to the consolidated dev page and use my browser's "find" function.

The forum search leaves much to be desired, since you have to search each forum individually, but you could at least try searching the suggestions forum.

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« Reply #6 on: November 06, 2007, 05:54:00 pm »
The thread in question was on the first page.    The only search function you'd need is eyesight and less effort than posting a new thread on a whim.
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