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TerminatorII

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Mechanisms
« on: April 07, 2007, 10:45:00 pm »
I read in another post how people wanted more uses for mechanisms.... So I thought about it some and came up with this.


Uses for mechanisms...


1. Conveyor belts
2. Water wheels (to power the conveyor belts)

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Core Xii

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Re: Mechanisms
« Reply #1 on: April 08, 2007, 12:14:00 pm »
Sure, and drive shafts and gears and winches and elevators and... escalators!
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Re: Mechanisms
« Reply #2 on: April 09, 2007, 01:26:00 am »
Elevators would be nice. I'm pretty sure that any dwarven engineer worth his rock salt would be able to work something out involving hydraulics.
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Xeirxes

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Re: Mechanisms
« Reply #3 on: April 09, 2007, 02:25:00 am »
conveyor belts would be amazing. imagine if you could really move stuff from one end of the fortress to another like that.

might make things too easy though.

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Re: Mechanisms
« Reply #4 on: April 10, 2007, 11:47:00 am »
Conveyor Piles already exist.

Setup a few stockpiles down your main hallway, each with orders to take from the pile before it. It is labor intensive but it does the job gradually. I use it to move my ore closer to my magma smelters.

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Re: Mechanisms
« Reply #5 on: April 10, 2007, 01:59:00 pm »
Conveyer-belts are already in one of the bloats -- only as carts instead of conveyer-belts.

I like the idea of lifts though -- especially with the forthcoming z-axis craziness...

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