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[Fallenworldful]

Now just fill your minecarts with magma AND large iron serrated discs for twice the coolness factor !

Now just fill your minecarts with magma, large iron serrated discs, AAAAAND adamanite serrated discs for THREE TIMES the coolness factor!

Now just fill your minecarts, magma, large iron serrated discs, adamanite serrated discs, and make them all Masterwork for THREE AND A HALF TIMES the coolness factor!

[Rafal99]

im unclear on one thing here, why do you need to get the cart to z4 before crashing it into a wall on z1? couldnt the cart just be pulled to z1 and accelerated to the wall on rollers?

also, is there a max cart speed? how many rollers on highest setting are sensible to use for max effect?

The max speed that can be achieved with rollers is 0,5 tiles/turn. I takes just one tile of highest setting roller to achieve such speed, after this the rollers won't accelerate the minecart any further.

But such speed in not enough to launch a contents of the minecart.
It has been determined in the "How Does Minecart" thread that the minecart must go down at least 3 z-levels of downramps with tracks to launch stuff.

[Aigre Excalibur]

Shotgun barrel sideview:

^ ramp from above
- track
| wall
{ fortification
o empty space

{
|o------^
|o

[Oaktree]

im unclear on one thing here, why do you need to get the cart to z4 before crashing it into a wall on z1? couldnt the cart just be pulled to z1 and accelerated to the wall on rollers?

also, is there a max cart speed? how many rollers on highest setting are sensible to use for max effect?

The max speed that can be achieved with rollers is 0,5 tiles/turn. I takes just one tile of highest setting roller to achieve such speed, after this the rollers won't accelerate the minecart any further.

But such speed in not enough to launch a contents of the minecart.
It has been determined in the "How Does Minecart" thread that the minecart must go down at least 3 z-levels of downramps with tracks to launch stuff.

3 z-levels of ramps or roughly 5+ ramps if you're using the derail-on-ramp exploit to build a single z-level linear railgun.  (Roughly at 7 in a row you achieve 1.0 tiles/tick impulse).  I use 8 since it appears to be able to toss the contents of a cart through a fortification and get most of the load to fly 15+ tiles down range - unless something like a goblin gets in the way...

[TinyPirate]

I've made a sort-of auto shotgun - in case you didn't see the previous thread.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iu-j8TsYEsQ

[MaximumZero]

That's insane, TinyPirate.

[Geen]

Load it with tons and tons of silver hammers. Break ALL the bones.

[Urist McSpike]

Load it with tons and tons of silver hammers. Break ALL the bones.

No, by Armok's beard!  Seriously, don't use hammers...  in my last fort, I had an insane amount of silver, so I thought of silver war hammers for ammo.  I think it was going to take over 1200 hammers to load one minecart to 100%.  Which is great for training your weaponsmiths, but then you have to reload that the carts.    (In my current fort, if we survive the tantrum spiral, I'm going to use QuantumMenace's watergun.

[TinyPirate]

Thanks. Gold bars are nice - but next I want to try whales. Got to find them and catch them first!

[MaximumZero]

Thanks. Gold bars are nice - but next I want to try whales. Got to find them and catch them first!

Nice.

[TinyPirate]

Video part two! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUF5R7hQppk

[Bigheaded]

Video part two! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qUF5R7hQppk

holy. crap.

Might make a frogger style defense, looks a bit easier than filling minecarts.

Really nice vid, shoulda left when the fun time starts here: 2:10  continue for 2 minutes, well worth the watch.

I liked how the frogger stuff still took out 90% of the goblins, impressive!

[MaximumZero]

So, my brother just came up with the best idea ever for minecart shotgun ammo. It's essentially free, you can get infinite amounts, and it would be humiliating to be killed by them.

Eggs.

[EveryZig]

Posting to approve.

[Wrex]

Eggs coated in syndromes that cause death by vomiting.