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[Proterus]

So I made a mine cart track that was successfully able to go from where my hematite ore mine is to where my magma smelters and forges are and I started thinking about how to most optimally set up one of these systems for future forts.  I came to reason that I only really need to get the ore down to the smelters I have no problems carrying my armor and weapons up and I bet most people just push empty carts back up to the mines anyway.

So the idea is that I will have a much shorter mine cart track that is completely on the level of the mine itself and ends with the ore being dumped into a hole that goes straight down to my magma smelters, in a self contained room probably with some safety mechanisms to prevent death from above.

So the question is : Are items destroyed by falling significant distances?  Specifically ore and charcoal bars (or if charcoal doesn't survive possibly wood).

I went to the wiki and the 'gravity' page only talks about living things being injured.  Perhaps they could answer this question there as well.

[Agent_Irons]

Let them plunge away!

Build a giant shaft all the way down to your smelters, build a hatch at z+1, link it to a lever, and put a stockpile with all the apprpriate things enabled just underneath it.

Periodically tweak the lever-> profit.

[Proterus]

Good, that will be at least an order of magnitude less work than the mine track!

[palu]

Just watch out for dwarves being crushed beneath piles of stone falling 100 stories... Or getting their skull caved in by a dress falling 1 level.

[Proterus]

Just watch out for dwarves being crushed beneath piles of stone falling 100 stories... Or getting their skull caved in by a dress falling 1 level.

Lmao has that happened to you?

[Quietust]

Just watch out for dwarves being crushed beneath piles of stone falling 100 stories... Or getting their skull caved in by a dress falling 1 level.

Lmao has that happened to you?

Yes.