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[Soadreqm]

Minecarts are pretty fun. Designating the tracks, though, is tedious and annoying, especially across several z-layers. I'd like to see a way of designating them that would just let me select the beginning, select the end, and have a track carved between those two points. Just find the shortest path between two tiles, treating only natural rock floors and ramps as passable, allowing only orthogonal movement, and make it a track. This will not necessarily give ideal behaviour all the time, but for me, the most common source of irritation is designating a track through a long, winding, mostly vertical passage that is the only track-passable route between the endpoints. I think it'd save a lot of hassle.

[King Mir]

This isn't really special to tracks; vertical mining in general could be made easier to designate.

[Soadreqm]

It kind of IS special to tracks in that the best track route is often the shortest path between the end points, which is not the case for most mining. Finding the shortest path between two points in unmined rock always results in a crude approximation of a straight line, which doesn't look very pretty and doesn't really mesh well with most popular fortress designs.

[sweitx]

This sounds like it would be an interesting mode for track designation/construction.
Designate a start and end, let DF's pathfinding algorithm determine the path to connect the two (or say the given path is impossible).

This isn't really special to tracks; vertical mining in general could be made easier to designate.

In case you don't know, we can now designate across Z-levels.
Start designate up-down stair on the level you want start, go the Z-level you want it to end on and  hit enter. You now have the entire column of up-down stair designated.

[lethosor]

This sounds like it would be an interesting mode for track designation/construction.
Designate a start and end, let DF's pathfinding algorithm determine the path to connect the two (or say the given path is impossible).

This isn't really special to tracks; vertical mining in general could be made easier to designate.

In case you don't know, we can now designate across Z-levels.
Start designate up-down stair on the level you want start, go the Z-level you want it to end on and  hit enter. You now have the entire column of up-down stair designated.

I'm pretty sure this doesn't work for carving tracks