Print

Please login or register.
1 Hour 1 Day 1 Week 1 Month Forever
Login with username, password and session length

[Burmalay]

!!SCIENCE!! A four-ramp drop and then 20 rollers WILL shotgun bolts through a fortification. I could see lining an entrance hallway with fortifications and carts filled with bolts. Excessively complex, but it would be funny, I guess.

Cool, but it didn't work =/ I build even 30 rollers & nothing. What's wrong with it? Am I playing different game? =)

[Girlinhat]

Remove the roof above the shotgun.

[Burmalay]

Remove the roof above the shotgun.

I built it at open air.

[TinyPirate]

!!SCIENCE!! A four-ramp drop and then 20 rollers WILL shotgun bolts through a fortification. I could see lining an entrance hallway with fortifications and carts filled with bolts. Excessively complex, but it would be funny, I guess.

Cool, but it didn't work =/ I build even 30 rollers & nothing. What's wrong with it? Am I playing different game? =)

I think there is a limit to acceleration provided by rollers, maybe 20 or even a few less. No need for thirty. Also, the end of the track isn't a stop, it's just track and then fortification. Starting at the top of a string of ramps also appears to be vitally important.

[Burmalay]

20 doesn't work too... OK, I'll just wait for next game release.

[rhesusmacabre]

0.34.09 was released a couple of hours ago.

There seems to be a bug where when a cart moves over a roller, as well as accelerating that cart, every other cart on a track is accelerated in the same direction. This explains why my carts keep flying off the track, or suddenly speed up/slow down.

Has anybody else found this? It's clearly a bug, but I can't make sense of the bugtracker.


In other news, necromancers will animate bodyparts on a moving minecart (happyface), but the zombies will drop off the cart (sadface). It took several tries for the necromancer to "notice" the kobold corpses I used, with a view of 5 tracks tiles, so if you want to use this a wider view of over 10 tiles is recommended.

[Urist Da Vinci]

0.34.09 was released a couple of hours ago.

There seems to be a bug where when a cart moves over a roller, as well as accelerating that cart, every other cart on a track is accelerated in the same direction. This explains why my carts keep flying off the track, or suddenly speed up/slow down.

Has anybody else found this? It's clearly a bug, but I can't make sense of the bugtracker.

...

Upload a save game file that demonstrates the bug, and post the link here. Someone else can then assist with the bug tracker.

[PsychicKid]

So uh, how do I fix the route problem where my dwarf is just hauling a cart diagnolly instead of pushing it down my tracks? I don't have the fort in question anymore, but I had a long stretch of track going through a hallway then turning south at a corner, going to the other end. Stop A in the north west, stop B in the south east essentially, yet my dorf just picks up the thing and runs through my hallways with it.

What.

[TerryDactyl]

So uh, how do I fix the route problem where my dwarf is just hauling a cart diagnolly instead of pushing it down my tracks? I don't have the fort in question anymore, but I had a long stretch of track going through a hallway then turning south at a corner, going to the other end. Stop A in the north west, stop B in the south east essentially, yet my dorf just picks up the thing and runs through my hallways with it.

What.

There's a break in your track somewhere. Or you're starting off in the wrong direction. There may be a yellow ! in front of your stop in the route planner...

[rhesusmacabre]

Upload a save game file that demonstrates the bug, and post the link here. Someone else can then assist with the bug tracker.

Uploaded: http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=6324

[Burmalay]

So, do we need stonefall traps anymore? The damage from couple of stone falling from several z-levels is much more then from stonefall trap.

[]S1---/----S2 This is how it looks. I didn't test it. Just in mind.
[]                         D - Locked door
H=D                      = - Tunnel
[]                         H - Hatch
[]                         S1 - Stop without friction & with unload to Hutch direction (minecart must fall in shaft too).
[]                         S2 - Just stop for load
[]                         - - Track
[]                         [] - Shaft
[]                         P/G - Goblin at the Pressure plate
[]
P/G

You just need to set some stone quantity for minecart load & push it to shaft to make it safe from haulers. Then just wait for little thief-friends. & when they activate pressure plate a stack of stones will do its job. Then dorfs just haul everything & reload trap automatically.

[Sadrice]

So uh, how do I fix the route problem where my dwarf is just hauling a cart diagnolly instead of pushing it down my tracks? I don't have the fort in question anymore, but I had a long stretch of track going through a hallway then turning south at a corner, going to the other end. Stop A in the north west, stop B in the south east essentially, yet my dorf just picks up the thing and runs through my hallways with it.

What.

Try setting a hauling point at each corner for both directions of travel.  For a track shaped like:

Code: [Select]

B--------A
|
|
Cyou need 4 stops (from the h-s menu, not b-C-S).  One at A, marked ride west whenever, one at B marked ride south immediately always, one at C marked ride north immediately when empty (or whatever) and another at B, marked ride east immediately always.

[webber]

when a cart moves over a roller, as well as accelerating that cart, every other cart on a track is accelerated in the same direction.

This explains "quantum entanglement".

[jwest23]

Is manual unloading of minecarts via "give to stockpile" broken for everybody or it`s just me doing something wrong? The only way I can empty the minecart is to dump the contents on a stop.

I had this same experience in .08.  I can't test it now, but is it any different in .09?

[penguinofhonor]

So, do carts going up ramps work properly in this version?

I'll test it in a minute but if someone else already has that'd be great.