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[simonthedwarf]

If dwarves can ride in minecarts you could have these dwarf drop pod systems that some players have been trying to do more or less to the detriment of the dwarves in question.

[SRD]

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And then he digs out under the molten rock.

[Eric Blank]

Better explanation? I'm not really sure what you're communicating with the picture, or how a miner in a cart is expected to end up under the SMR, or survive to dig his way back up.

[SRD]

Well like, he's in a minecart, in a bauxite box, with a pickaxe, a supply of booze and food and connected to a support.

Cut the support.
If he survives than he get dig under his box through the SMR and discover what's under it.

This could expand into a bigger version- ie: A farmer, a miner, a mason, a woodcutter/carpenter, and a woman.
Cut off completely from the outside world and left with their own tools and a 2x2 of soil.

[rridgway]

I think that when the next release comes out, I need to build a checkerboard. So the Circus will bow to my will. After it has been sealed, I shall build a rollercoaster which goes down one adamantine tube, does a loopty loop, and then rockets up out of another tube.

Even better, actually attach this to my hauling network.

[Reudh]

Oh, the minecart acts as a crash helmet thing, and it's like the new aquifer plug? But it's a lava plug?

I am just looking forward to the moddability of minecarts. Toady in another quote said we will be able to mod them to make them out of any material we wish for, so nethercap minecarts would be very, very useful in lava.

[darklord92]

they can already be made of wood as well as metal, nether cap is wood, so as long as you have it close enough to the craft workshop it will make a rather cold minecart

[SRD]

And he digs down, being completely cut-off from the surface world.

[TinyPirate]

Dwarven astronauts!

[darklord92]

isn't it geonaughts if it's underground?  also are we even sure minecarts will work like cage traps?

[Eric Blank]

And he digs down, being completely cut-off from the surface world.

Sadly, such a design has been concieved and tested before. It didn't work, because of the physics of cave-ins. Cave-ins into magma are a death sentence, the ceiling collapses anyway, and things caught on the SMR tend to be destroyed.

[Urist Da Vinci]

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And he digs down, being completely cut-off from the surface world.

Sadly, such a design has been concieved and tested before. It didn't work, because of the physics of cave-ins. Cave-ins into magma are a death sentence, the ceiling collapses anyway, and things caught on the SMR tend to be destroyed.

Yes, something more like this will happen:

[SRD]

What if I do this.



Where the roof is supported by supports on every square, and the water is under the floor of the thing so that if the floor is destroyed, the water around the edge turns into obsidian while the middle stays water, and theoretically the smr only destroys blocks so it should stay there..

[Aviator CJ]

That might work if the entire thing was dug out or cast of obsidian, but I think that's probably been tried before. Any construction (wall, floor, stairs, etc.) that loses suport instantly deconstructs.

[SRD]

No it doesn't.. remember the times when you had to construct walls to plug the aquifer?