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[Puzzlemaker]

One of my biggest questions is would it be possible to get a minecart to dump it's contents automatically.

[Psieye]

One of my biggest questions is would it be possible to get a minecart to dump it's contents automatically.

With or without getting derailed in the process?

[Puzzlemaker]

One of my biggest questions is would it be possible to get a minecart to dump it's contents automatically.

With or without getting derailed in the process?

Honestly doesn't matter... It seems de-railed minecarts can be "re-railed", so if minecarts lose their contents when they derail that would be fine by me.

[tahujdt]

Woo! Toady just posted that haulers can jump onto the back of carts!

[ThatAussieGuy]

Woo! Toady just posted that haulers can jump onto the back of carts!

Awesome.  We'll have a dwarven railway after all.  Now to weaponize it to megaproject levels.

[Loud Whispers]

Begin the age of industrialism.

[ThatAussieGuy]

You know what would be awesome?  If the plates recognised the weights of different materials in the carts.  You could keep plump helmets going to the food stores and coal going to the forges on the same track

[FearfulJesuit]

The possibilities for !!FUN!! are now so, so much bigger. But does this mean, for example, that we could have a multi-Z-level fortress that has absolutely no stairways at all, because we'd just connect all the different parts with minecart tracks?

[Loud Whispers]

Well you don't need minecarts to make a stair-free fortress, but I certainly see the obsolete tasks being of the highest priorities, such as transporting a Dwarf 2 tiles to the left with the application of iron and axles.

[FearfulJesuit]

Now that is an idea: create a fortress that STILL WORKS if all of the dwarves have had their legs lopped off, with lots and lots and lots of minecarts.

[ThatAussieGuy]

Now that is an idea: create a fortress that STILL WORKS if all of the dwarves have had their legs lopped off, with lots and lots and lots of minecarts.

A fully automated fortress, capable of rending dwarves themselves superfluous.  IT SHALL BE DONE!

[TSTwizby]

You know what would be awesome?  If the plates recognised the weights of different materials in the carts.  You could keep plump helmets going to the food stores and coal going to the forges on the same track

They will. From the devlog...

Pressure plates can be given a weight range for being triggered by carts

[ThatAussieGuy]

They will. From the devlog...

Pressure plates can be given a weight range for being triggered by carts

Toady's only mentioned them differentiating between 'full' and 'empty' so far in the devlogs

[TSTwizby]

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Toady's only mentioned them differentiating between 'full' and 'empty' so far in the devlogs

Pressure plates can be given a weight range for being triggered by carts

I quoted this directly from the devlog...

[ThatAussieGuy]

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Toady's only mentioned them differentiating between 'full' and 'empty' so far in the devlogs

Pressure plates can be given a weight range for being triggered by carts

I quoted this directly from the devlog...

I tested it out by making a retracting bridge system that sorted carts by whether or not they were loaded.

He hasn't explicitly stated anything to do with the weight of the cart's load.