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GreatWyrmGold

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Using Minecarts
« on: May 17, 2012, 06:36:08 am »
How would I use minecarts to

A. cart stuff around? I assume the hauling menu is involved.
B. Kill the tribe of olm men in my caverns?
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #1 on: May 17, 2012, 08:07:20 am »
To cart stuff around with minecarts, you need:
Two stockpiles, one at each end of the track.
Track
A minecart

You use the hauling menu to designate the minecart stops (it's not hard to work out) and set it to take from one stockpile at one stop and give to the other stockpile at the other stop. Everything then just works.
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #2 on: May 17, 2012, 08:59:17 am »
It depends on the layout of your track, but you'll probably want to set the stops to "guide [direction] when full". A push will work if your track is mainly downhill, but this runs the risk/benefit of casualties.
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #3 on: May 17, 2012, 04:41:56 pm »
Alright, so there has to be a stockpile at each end?

Could I, say, fill a minecart with training weapons and send it down into the caverns towards the unsuspecting olmperson tribe somehow?
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #4 on: May 17, 2012, 06:16:14 pm »
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #5 on: May 17, 2012, 09:56:02 pm »
Any suggestions on how to use them as weapons? Would my idea work? Would I need to get a stockpile on the other end to get them to toss the minecart off the track or something?

And, while I'm on the topic, how do I power rollers?
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #6 on: May 17, 2012, 10:54:21 pm »
The tutorial thingy didn't seem to say anything about this...are dwarves supposed to automatically haul minecarts to the hauling routes?
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #7 on: May 17, 2012, 10:58:55 pm »
You have to assign the cart by selecting the route and hitting [v]ehicle.
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #8 on: May 18, 2012, 12:56:41 am »
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 17, 2012, 09:56:02 pm
Any suggestions on how to use them as weapons? Would my idea work? Would I need to get a stockpile on the other end to get them to toss the minecart off the track or something?

And, while I'm on the topic, how do I power rollers?
You can connect power to their tile like any other mechanism, but right now they run even when unpowered.
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #9 on: May 18, 2012, 04:25:37 am »
Quote from: glopso on May 18, 2012, 12:56:41 am
...but right now they run even when unpowered.

This was fixed in 0.34.09, although I haven't checked.
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #10 on: May 18, 2012, 04:41:08 am »
Quote from: rhesusmacabre on May 18, 2012, 04:25:37 am
Quote from: glopso on May 18, 2012, 12:56:41 am
...but right now they run even when unpowered.

This was fixed in 0.34.09, although I haven't checked.
Oh whoops, I didn't see that
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #11 on: May 18, 2012, 07:15:09 am »
Do rollers transfer power?

...Is there a page on the wiki with minecarts? Oh, yeah, there is. Hold on a sec...
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #12 on: May 18, 2012, 08:39:48 am »
Alright, I've got two tracks, one to dump wood down a hole from my aboveground stockpile and one to bring a cart of crafts to a stockpile by my depot. Aside from a broken finger resulting from clumsy garbage dump designations whilst clearing out the destination stockpile, nothing really went awry (the dwarves don't seem to want to empty it, though); however, the minecart on the surface isn't being filled. Is there something I'm missing?
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #13 on: May 18, 2012, 08:43:44 am »
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 18, 2012, 07:15:09 am
Do rollers transfer power?

...Is there a page on the wiki with minecarts? Oh, yeah, there is. Hold on a sec...

There is, but it doesn't answer your question, which I would also like to know.
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Re: Using Minecarts
« Reply #14 on: May 18, 2012, 08:47:09 am »
Quote from: GreatWyrmGold on May 18, 2012, 08:39:48 am
...however, the minecart on the surface isn't being filled. Is there something I'm missing?

You have to both assign the stockpile to the stop with [s], and tell the stop to take the item type you want with Enter.
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