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[Himmelblau]

Now if we can just get cages to break on impact we could load the carts with caged clowns.

Perhaps two bullets fired one after another, the first containing clowns in a non-magmasafe cage, and the second containing magma. The cage gets thrown out of the first cart on impact, and magma is spilled on it when the second cart lands. Magmasafe clowns emerge from molten rock and metal. Satisfactory?

[Martin]

Excellent thinking!

[Torham]

alternate firing magma and water filled minecarts to create obsidian death to demons, accelerate minecarts fully loaded with serrated discs, or loaded with barrels of cheap booze + igniter of some sort(burning wooden minecart?). The possibilities are exciting.
I am thinking with this physics in place, wouldn't it be logical to bring our standard catapults and balistas to use the new system and give us few more ammunition types (incendiary burning barrles of booze, shrapnel bundles of blades ....)...
I am in favour of cyclotron mechanics, since they are more compact than a long rail barrel and hence you can concentrate more rolers in a small space cheaply, perhaps with a water reactor in the middle of the cyclotron.

[Uristocrat]

alternate firing magma and water filled minecarts to create obsidian death to demons, accelerate minecarts fully loaded with serrated discs, or loaded with barrels of cheap booze + igniter of some sort(burning wooden minecart?). The possibilities are exciting.
I am thinking with this physics in place, wouldn't it be logical to bring our standard catapults and balistas to use the new system and give us few more ammunition types (incendiary burning barrles of booze, shrapnel bundles of blades ....)...
I am in favour of cyclotron mechanics, since they are more compact than a long rail barrel and hence you can concentrate more rolers in a small space cheaply, perhaps with a water reactor in the middle of the cyclotron.

I seem to remember that rollers could only take carts up to a maximum speed.  So I'm thinking that we'll have to use long, straight down ramps after the initial acceleration.  Obviously, we'll have to wait for the release to figure out the best Dwarven Railgun designs.

[FearfulJesuit]

Now that things spill out of minecarts, my first experiment will be to collide a minecart containing magma and one containing water.

[Himmelblau]

Now that things spill out of minecarts, my first experiment will be to collide a minecart containing magma and one containing water.

... in mid-air, killing something 20 z-levels below with the resulting obsidian-cave-in.

[HorridOwn4ge]

Guys... Guys listen up

Come on Guys...

What if we..

Guys Listen! what if we..

Guys!

What if we put minecarts in minecarts and throw them at.. wait for it...

ELVES

[iyaerP]

What if we do two minecarts full of pitchblende, get them both up to near relativistic velocities, and collide them into each other. Dwarven nuke?

[ComradeGafarov]

I think now that we have railgun technology, the next logical step would be nuclear weaponry.

Or a reactor. That would be pretty badass too.

[SmileyMan]

What if we do two minecarts full of pitchblende, get them both up to near relativistic velocities, and collide them into each other. Dwarven nuke?

As v tends to c, E tends to mc˛/2 anyway, so fissile material becomes unnecessary, especially when you consider that only a fraction of the uranium in a bomb actually undergoes fission anyway.

[sekullbe]

I want to take the simple path and just fire water-filled minecarts in a frozen biome. Splash, freeze, dead, then come out later and mine out the goblinite.

[Niyazov]

Put 50 elephants in one cage, put said one cage (weighing more than a bunch of slade boulders) into a minecart, roll downhill => unstoppable momentum.

Chain an animal with a gold chain, deconstruct the chain, rinse, repeat ad infinitum. Bonus: animal does not need to be caged and chunks will go flying everywhere on impact

[Girlinhat]

Contents are confirmed to spill now.  Set a long row of track.  Cut it in the middle, and add fortifications in the middle of the track.  Down the left side comes magma.  Down the right side comes water.  Both hit the fortifications and liquids go flying.  Whatever isn't entombed is burned.

[Dynastia]

Will spilled contents have velocity/do damage? Since there's an arc, I'm thinking a minecart full of spears set to crash just short of the expected goblins could make a cute little grapeshot cannon.

[Uristocrat]

Contents are confirmed to spill now.  Set a long row of track.  Cut it in the middle, and add fortifications in the middle of the track.  Down the left side comes magma.  Down the right side comes water.  Both hit the fortifications and liquids go flying.  Whatever isn't entombed is burned.

Personally, I'm starting to think that green glass spiked balls & serrated discs seem like good cart ammo, but obsidianification & cave-ins are !!fun!! too.

I actually requested crayon art of science involving magma & minecarts.  Can't wait to see what I get.....