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[Trif]

questions:
3) if minecarts dont get destroyed when they hit the floor, and anything in them ie a dwarf dosent get damaged when it hits the floor, would this be a good millatery drop pod solution for fast deployment?

If those conditions are fulfilled, then sure, it would be the perfect drop pod. It doesn't seem very Toady-like to make invincibility devices, though. Especially since he mentioned parabolic paths for flying creatures without wings (i.e. dwarfs).

Question: Which symbols will Toady use for minecarts and tracks?

[Girlinhat]

I suspect that creatures in a minecart that falls will suffer normal falling damage.

IF you can let creatures ride.  Right now it sounds like cargo-only.

Minecarts should obviously use the 0 symbol - that being, coffins.

[Sheb]

I love the way the friction zones will only stop "most" carts (Those with the less momentum). There is so much potential for accident there.

Urist McPeasant: "The lead bars were loaded on the cart and sent to the forge sir!"
Urist McSir: "Good, go and fetch me a +Dwarven Wine+. Wait, ALL the bars?"
Urist McPeasant (Beaming with pride): "Yessir! I managed to shove all of them in the cart, so we can go home early!"
Urist McSir: "What? You idiot! Why do you think the Office of Dwarven Railways forbid us to load more than six of 'hem!?! It's too heavy now, it won't stop!"

The flying wooden minecart hit Urist McBystander in the lower body.
The severed part fly in a bloody arc!
Urist McBystander has been struck down.
The flying lead bar hit Urist McBystander in the head x10
The severed part fly in a bloody arc! x10
Urist McBystander has been struck down x10

[Eric Blank]

You can probably use several friction zones in a row to slow it down before entering the station. Or a wall...

[TSTwizby]

A question which I still think hasn't been answered is how colliding minecarts act. Will they break up? Will they instantly stop? Will they bounce?

[Loud Whispers]

This brings my dream of a Hunger Games fot that much closer. Travel between districts is possible only with official Capitol minecarts.

Oh c'mon, we already have gladiatorial fights atop underground arenas hanging over the sky.

We need to see the big picture here.

MINECART JOUSTING

[tahujdt]

My Hunger games goal won't be complete until the next version of runesmith. Then i'll use it to make them fight.

[FrisianDude]

A question which I still think hasn't been answered is how colliding minecarts act. Will they break up? Will they instantly stop? Will they bounce?

They'll each fly off in a random direction.

[Loud Whispers]

MINECART JOUSTING

*Also remembered something Toady said about working with motion arcs to allow mounted adventurers. One step closer to riding camels into the sunset.

[Monk321654]

Hmmm...
What if you could strap weapons onto the front?
Like, ride down a track into your enemies, with a Lance bolted onto the front?
Or better yet, a Large Serrated Disk!

[Ivir_Baggins]

Time for...


NUTS ON THE ROAD!

[BigD145]

If minecarts work underwater, we could use carefully timed bridges as airlocks and maintain a segregated seafloor colony.

I was thinking underwater Alcatraz with cages of prisoners being sent to an underwater penal colony.

[Castamere]

Would it be rude if I asked

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

 when is Toady planning to release this Minecart update ?

This is even a bigger update than the Valentine one! Sure it gave us unkillable husks and elf blood rain, but HAULING OVERHAUL AND MINECARTS?  b**** please!
Finally my apartheid Fort will be a realistic project! Tantrum spirals will be just another Dwarf burgeois amusement!

[se5a]

actually I'm a little worried that this new big feature means we're out of luck on updates till next year.

[TSTwizby]

I don't think so. From what it sounds like, minecarts are mostly finished already, given Toady was able to set up tracks, stops, switches and everything else. As he specifically said that he was going to put off the other major hauling/mining overhaul for the moment, that's one less thing which has to be done right now. All that would be left is fixing up the details, bugs and whatnot. Of course, this could be completely wrong, but I wouldn't be surprised by another release this month.