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[Tryble]

Edit:  My mistake.  I was seeing something odd due to an altered tileset.  Disregard!

[EvilTwin]

If you inspect a ramp [k] and it is built correctly, it will display "Upward Ramp" with no direction note.  If it's not built right you'll see "Upward Ramp [NS]" or something along those lines. 

You can double check your ramps with this to make sure carts will be pushed up without bouncing back and snapping the spine of the only doctor in the fortress, paralyzing him forever.

But then it is no track and the cart will loose a lot of momentum and/or topple, also a dwarf wont push it up there, he will haul it.

[TerryDactyl]

Bluddy heck. I've got a nice secluded spot so I can learn how to work tracks and minecarts (and to play a bit of Rollercoaster Tycoon) but I've always been daunted by power and the like and can't figure out how to link my windmill (which is turning) to my roller. 

Can't connect rollers from above. Connect from the side.

[Khym Chanur]

Bluddy heck. I've got a nice secluded spot so I can learn how to work tracks and minecarts (and to play a bit of Rollercoaster Tycoon) but I've always been daunted by power and the like and can't figure out how to link my windmill (which is turning) to my roller. 

You might want to try a water wheel perpetual motion machine (a.k.a. "water reactor"), which can provide you with lots of power without the need for rivers or wind.

[AWdeV]

It's probably too arid for that. But the windmill does provide power so that's not the issue.

Maybe I should just rebuild it right next to the

Fuck me. "    Windmills may only connect to machinery directly below their center tile. " How could I have missed that. 

I imagine placing it on top of a gear assembly attached to the roller would work?

Bluddy heck. I've got a nice secluded spot so I can learn how to work tracks and minecarts (and to play a bit of Rollercoaster Tycoon) but I've always been daunted by power and the like and can't figure out how to link my windmill (which is turning) to my roller. 

Can't connect rollers from above. Connect from the side.

The problem was connecting the windmill to the delivery system. I think I know what to do now. Thanks dude(tte)s.

edit: powered up. Success.

Of a sort. Still won't catapult a -willow minecart- up a teensy little ramp. Alignment is correct, thing is working with an excess of power (mill produces 20, thing needs 8.)

[Symmetry]

Fuck me. "    Windmills may only connect to machinery directly below their center tile. " How could I have missed that. 

I imagine placing it on top of a gear assembly attached to the roller would work?

That is the standard approach.  Bear in mind if you attach that gear to a lever and disable it the windmill will deconstruct as it has no support.

[AWdeV]

I didn't attach it to a lever because it's just for practice anyway. It also rests on a 3 by 3 floor with a one-tile hole in the middle which leans on a completely superfluous limestone block wall underneath.

It still doesn't provide the oomph required to hurl the cart up a ramp though. Would a bigger roller work? I'll try.

[oven_baked]

While messing about with them and testing a system to haul stone to the surface i've discovered that setting dwarfs to "ride" or "push" down long ramps is not a good idea.
The test dwarfs found out the hard way:
The planter's right eye takes the full force of the impact, bruising the right eyelid's skin though the (pig tail fiber cloak)!
And:
The miner's upper body takes the full force of the impact, bruising the muscle, jamming the right true ribs though the left lung and tearing apart the left lung!

[AWdeV]

Ooh damn. I just send a master miner hurtling down a newly made complex. Her cart failed to make a bend. Or rather, I did. Fixed that now.

Cart keeps getting stuck on a ramp but I imagine that's because I have the wrong ramp.

[LoSboccacc]

does guided route work even if I don't specify items to be taken, but just list which piles are linked at start and stop?

also, if I use a stop for multiple routes, can multiple carts wait at the same stop?

[EvilTwin]

does guided route work even if I don't specify items to be taken, but just list which piles are linked at start and stop?

also, if I use a stop for multiple routes, can multiple carts wait at the same stop?

yes, also yes.

[khearn]

I'm trying to have a minecart route to take sand bags from a stockpile next to my glass furnace near the surface, and dump them down a shaft to land near my magma glass furnace down by the magma sea. The problem I have is that 11 sandbags only makes the cart 3% full, and the lowest setting I can set is to have it move when 25% full. It looks like that will be about 100 sandbags, and I don't really want to fill that many. I could just make it go after a time period, regardless of how full it is, but then I'll end up with an empty cart being shuttled back and forth when I'm not doing any glassmaking. That seems kind of silly. Am I missing a way to set the departure condition to something like 5% full? Or some other solution?

[EvilTwin]

I'm trying to have a minecart route to take sand bags from a stockpile next to my glass furnace near the surface, and dump them down a shaft to land near my magma glass furnace down by the magma sea. The problem I have is that 11 sandbags only makes the cart 3% full, and the lowest setting I can set is to have it move when 25% full. It looks like that will be about 100 sandbags, and I don't really want to fill that many. I could just make it go after a time period, regardless of how full it is, but then I'll end up with an empty cart being shuttled back and forth when I'm not doing any glassmaking. That seems kind of silly. Am I missing a way to set the departure condition to something like 5% full? Or some other solution?

Having thought about it, you should probably just go for the empty minecart rolling back and forth, which admittedly seems silly, but you could always just lock the door to the glass furnace and track access, so no dwarf will push it off and the job will keep being queued in the glass furnace. You could even hook the sand production up to a lever that way

EDIT: Or just use the same cart to carry ores and goblinite to your magma furnace, the cart will be full pretty quick that way.

[Martin]

I'm trying to have a minecart route to take sand bags from a stockpile next to my glass furnace near the surface, and dump them down a shaft to land near my magma glass furnace down by the magma sea. The problem I have is that 11 sandbags only makes the cart 3% full, and the lowest setting I can set is to have it move when 25% full. It looks like that will be about 100 sandbags, and I don't really want to fill that many. I could just make it go after a time period, regardless of how full it is, but then I'll end up with an empty cart being shuttled back and forth when I'm not doing any glassmaking. That seems kind of silly. Am I missing a way to set the departure condition to something like 5% full? Or some other solution?

Put two conditions down - send it when its 25% full, and send it after 14 days, for example. They'll send it when either condition is met, so if they only get it 5% full after 2 weeks, they'll just send it along.

[EvilTwin]

I'm trying to have a minecart route to take sand bags from a stockpile next to my glass furnace near the surface, and dump them down a shaft to land near my magma glass furnace down by the magma sea. The problem I have is that 11 sandbags only makes the cart 3% full, and the lowest setting I can set is to have it move when 25% full. It looks like that will be about 100 sandbags, and I don't really want to fill that many. I could just make it go after a time period, regardless of how full it is, but then I'll end up with an empty cart being shuttled back and forth when I'm not doing any glassmaking. That seems kind of silly. Am I missing a way to set the departure condition to something like 5% full? Or some other solution?

Put two conditions down - send it when its 25% full, and send it after 14 days, for example. They'll send it when either condition is met, so if they only get it 5% full after 2 weeks, they'll just send it along.

There's no way his dwarves would manage to get together those 100 bags he's talking about to get the cart up to 25%, so the first condition would never be met. At least with only one glass furnace.