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[NonconsensualSurgery]

How do I impulse ramp?

I want a minecart to go north, through a hallway that is currently empty. Walk me through this like I am five.

[WhimsyWink]

http://dwarffortresswiki.org/index.php/DF2012:Minecart

I don't know how to talk to a 5 year old

[Garath]

carved L shaped tracks in the ramps (or constructed?) with one leg of the L being in the direction of travel and the other pointing 'up' the ramp, if I see it correctlyBasically, as it travels it bumps into no-track between the two seperate Ls, which the game treats as falling off the track, at which point it 'lands' on the next L, gets the speed boost for landing on the ramp, hits the same problem as before.

Practise making the correct type of ramps for a bit somewhere and launch a test vehicle. The wiki seems clear to me, if you don't understand it I wouldn't know how to explain it otherwise. Over to the next person.

[NonconsensualSurgery]

We have simple northward motion at just under the speed of light.

I am mildly pleased.

[Putnam]

We have simple northward motion at just under the speed of light.

I am mildly pleased.

The speed of light in Dwarf Fortress is actually just 300 meters per second; note, however, that signals sent through pipe sections, gear mechanisms and levers travel faster than this.

I call it "the Law of Things What Move and How Fast They Go Versus Things What Don't Move But Make Stuff Move Abstractly And How They're Faster Than Those Other Things".

[greycat]

Spooky Fun Action At A Distance

[Garath]

instant telepathic machinery

[Immortal-D]

I actually took the time to search before posting here, but probly missed it anyways    Could having intersecting Dining Rooms cause any problems?  I assigned a single table as a Dining Room, expanded to fill the entire space, then filled that space with tables/chairs (none are sharing).  Happiness was still decreasing due to lack of Dining Table, so I assigned multiple tables within that space as also being for dining, but still 'lack of tables'.  These are the only chairs in the whole fortress, directly across from the provisions stockpile, so I'm rather at a loss.  Any info is appreciated.

[BlackFlyme]

I actually took the time to search before posting here, but probly missed it anyways    Could having intersecting Dining Rooms cause any problems?  I assigned a single table as a Dining Room, expanded to fill the entire space, then filled that space with tables/chairs (none are sharing).  Happiness was still decreasing due to lack of Dining Table, so I assigned multiple tables within that space as also being for dining, but still 'lack of tables'.  These are the only chairs in the whole fortress, directly across from the provisions stockpile, so I'm rather at a loss.  Any info is appreciated.

The only problem I can recall is that overlapping rooms have a lesser value because they share furniture.

How long have you waited between checking thoughts and setting up the rooms? It may be that the thoughts you are looking at were generated before the dining rooms were set up, since thoughts take a while before they disappear.

[Urist McRas]

How did you arrange tables and chairs? Did you put them chair-next-to-table? Are there tables with multiple chairs around?

[WhimsyWink]

I am growing fungus on my soil floors without penetrating caverns.  Is there a planned game mechanism that allows this?  or am I just gonna have to accept another "I don't know why, but"  ?

[Immortal-D]

The only problem I can recall is that overlapping rooms have a lesser value because they share furniture.

How long have you waited between checking thoughts and setting up the rooms? It may be that the thoughts you are looking at were generated before the dining rooms were set up, since thoughts take a while before they disappear.

Admittedly I have been checking rather frequently, the Fortress just started its' second year.  I just freaked out when I saw that my latest wave of immigrants were all average/yellow content.

How did you arrange tables and chairs? Did you put them chair-next-to-table? Are there tables with multiple chairs around?

Just a simple column;

CTTC
CTTC

I guess if their mood improves gradually, I'll know by the third year.

[greycat]

I assigned a single table as a Dining Room, expanded to fill the entire space, then filled that space with tables/chairs (none are sharing).  Happiness was still decreasing due to lack of Dining Table, so I assigned multiple tables within that space as also being for dining, but still 'lack of tables'.  These are the only chairs in the whole fortress, directly across from the provisions stockpile, so I'm rather at a loss.

I was going to say "You've got some chairs somewhere else without adjacent tables..." but then I saw the end of your quoted text.

Is it possible that the bad thoughts in question are from a time before you had tables in place next to every chair?  Bad thoughts hang around in each dwarf's mind for a year, IIRC (dropping to half strength after half a year).

That said, you shouldn't have multiple overlapping dining room definitions, because the value of the dining room gets divided across all the room definitions.  It's best to have one room definition that covers the whole thing.

[BlackFlyme]

I am growing fungus on my soil floors without penetrating caverns.  Is there a planned game mechanism that allows this?  or am I just gonna have to accept another "I don't know why, but"  ?

This isn't your first fortress in this world, is it?

If you breach the caverns in a previous fort, newer forts can grow fungus without ever seeing the caverns.

[WhimsyWink]

I am growing fungus on my soil floors without penetrating caverns.  Is there a planned game mechanism that allows this?  or am I just gonna have to accept another "I don't know why, but"  ?

This isn't your first fortress in this world, is it?

If you breach the caverns in a previous fort, newer forts can grow fungus without ever seeing the caverns.

That's probably it, thanks