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[SpiralDimentia]

So the whole time I read the progress, I was super excited for these two things. I got back form vacation and got the latest version, opened it up and began to play... and I can't figure out what the hell to do with them. My mine is mining out iron and other things in jagged patterns in small shafts, not alot of room for minecarts or tracks. Besides, they all radiate outwards from a staircase straight under my mining building. I'm not sure what I should use these things for, other than the Dwarf Fortress Space Program.

[GhostDwemer]

That's minecarts for you: useless for mining. Ore drops being nerfed and 3D ore veins coming some time in the future, minecarts make no sense for mining. By the time you get a track set up, you could have hauled all the ore using wheelbarrows five times over. Some people use them for automated quantum stockpiling or garbage dumping, others use them for hauling finished goods to the depot, and people who have magma forges dozens of z-levels below their main fort use them to haul from intermediate stockpiles to drop chutes. Other than that, well, there's the dwarven shotgun (minecarts loaded with spears or heavy crap that get propelled into a fortification, stopping the cart and launching the objects through the fortifications) and the dwarven magma cannon (same thing, but with magma.)

[SpiralDimentia]

the dwarven shotgun (minecarts loaded with spears or heavy crap that get propelled into a fortification, stopping the cart and launching the objects through the fortifications) and the dwarven magma cannon (same thing, but with magma.)

Alright. Found what I'm using them for. Thanks. Haha.

[GreatWyrmGold]

I thought the magma cannon was what Boatmurdered had. I'd call the magma-firing thing a magma rife or something.

[Bouchart]

Minecarts may not be useful for mining but I think they could be useful to move globs of clay to the kilns.  They might be useful for moving heavy corpses your hunters bring in.  I'm not sure if they rot while they are inside of a minecart.  They might be good for moving heavy furniture from forges to stockpiles.

Otherwise they don't seem terribly useful.  It would be great if you could load them directly from a Trade Depot, though.

[GhostDwemer]

I thought the magma cannon was what Boatmurdered had. I'd call the magma-firing thing a magma rife or something.

Yeah, you're right, there is already a magma cannon. I vote for magma musket because they aren't rifled. I guess they are breach loading though. Still "magma musket" sounds cool.

[caddybear]

Magma railgun. Because you know, it's on rails.

[wsoxfan]

Magma railgun. Because you know, it's on rails.

Dwarfs-they could come up with technology more advanced than what we have today. I mean, we're still researching railguns.

[caddybear]

Well, yeah, but it's meant to be a pun, not a real railgun. Well unless the rollers are magnetic ( which they well might be, come to think of it ) .. and the minecarts.. no but that doesn't even make any sense.

Stop thinking Caddyb, real life and dwarf fortress physics should not be compared. That way madness lies.