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[SmileyMan]

Heh heh - designated first track, sorted out the routing, just a little railway from my main stone pile to the ore pile next to the smelter.  I thought to myself "I know, I'll set it to 'push' the empty carts back, rather than guide them - that should save time!"

The maple minecart strikes The Puppy in the right front leg, shattering the bone!
The Puppy's left front paw skids along the ground, shattering the bone!
The Puppy's upper body skids along the ground, bruising the muscle and bruising the right lung!
The Puppy is having trouble breathing!
The Puppy's tail skids along the ground, shattering the bone!
The Puppy gives in to pain.
The Puppy's left front leg skids along the ground, bruising the muscle!
The Puppy slams into an obstacle!

Yeah, minecarts and pets don't mix, kids!

[Scelly9]

How do you actually get the carts onto the track?

[FearfulJesuit]

Heh heh - designated first track, sorted out the routing, just a little railway from my main stone pile to the ore pile next to the smelter.  I thought to myself "I know, I'll set it to 'push' the empty carts back, rather than guide them - that should save time!"

The maple minecart strikes The Puppy in the right front leg, shattering the bone!
The Puppy's left front paw skids along the ground, shattering the bone!
The Puppy's upper body skids along the ground, bruising the muscle and bruising the right lung!
The Puppy is having trouble breathing!
The Puppy's tail skids along the ground, shattering the bone!
The Puppy gives in to pain.
The Puppy's left front leg skids along the ground, bruising the muscle!
The Puppy slams into an obstacle!

Yeah, minecarts and pets don't mix, kids!

Sigqvoted.

[Sanguine]

Anybody worked out how to attach a ramp to a track yet?

[lazygun]

How do you actually get the carts onto the track?

Hauling menu (h).  Create a route. Create 2 or more stopping points on the route. Back to the route, assign a minecart.

[SmileyMan]

Yep.

Press 'h' to go to the new hauling menu.  Then you designate a route, using stops at the ends of your tracks, and the actions to take at those stops. Then you assign a vehicle to the route that you've just designated, and choose one of your new minecarts.

Like all DF user interfaces, it's incredibly useful and detailed, while being amazingly obscure and eccentric.

[ThatAussieGuy]

I'm going to have to use my testing fort to play around with minecarts, I think.  Gonna wait a day or two for last-minute bugfixes, etc, before properly digging in though.


And for those that suddenly thought of GlaDOS at the mention of me having a testing facility, don't worry.  I don't emotionally toy with the test subjects fortress inhabitants, I just abuse both them and physics to create nightmarish constructs of engineering.

[lordofhyphens]

It would be interesting if the game caused piles of items beyond a certain number of items to spread out to adjacent tiles, potentially causing injury if the movement was large enough. However, it would cause quantum piles to generate lag as the game attempts to smudge them, if the pile is trapped in a small space where the items can't go anywhere. It wouldn't really add anything to the game except players trolling kobolds by putting 5000x gold mugs in a 1x1 closet kept shut by a locked door.

Make it walnuts and I'm in.

[Old Greg]

Aw maaaaan, why'd it have to happen during finals...

I'm also really excited about the fact that falling objects can cause damage, now. One of the best defenses might now be a quantum stockpile on a trapdoor above your entrance. And flavor-wise, there's so many options! Anvils, skulls of their brethren, caged prisoners...

[ab9rf]

Anybody worked out how to attach a ramp to a track yet?

I thought I had, but the hauling screen says my track is incomplete.  So, no.

[Girlinhat]

You deconstruct the ramp and replace it with a trackramp.

[FearfulJesuit]

Can somebody explain how I do a corner curve?

[Intro1827]

I think you have to overlap two tracks

[EmperorJon]

Note, if you place a crossing under a stop accidentally, all loaded goods will just randomly be dumped next to the cart and not actually put in... ;P

[FearfulJesuit]

Derrrrrp.



You know what? Would somebody who's more or less figured out how to work these start a "Minecarts 101" page on the wiki?

The wiki needs love, actually...