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[fricy]

Pressure plates built on tracks have a sensitivity range of 50 urists.

We have a lot of materials, but their densities are more or less in the same range, which means that the weight difference between the minecarts is rather small. I counted only 12 10 possible trigger states. When building automated minecart systems that's only 12 10 different hauling routes, and has a very big error margin: if you calibrate a plate to trigger on an empty platinum cart (850-900 urists) that range can easily be met with an adamantine cart that has some bars in it, or a copper cart with some clothes or other light things, etc.

Thus, I'd like to petition to increase the sensitivity of pressure plates built on tracks to 10 urists.

I know I may be the only one with this problem, but it should be an easy change and add a lot more flexibility.

Spoiler: Minecart weights (click to show/hide)

Material   Density   Cart Weight    Feather Tree   0,1   4   x Candlenut   0,14   6    Kapok   0,26   10    Willow   0,39   16    Alder   0,41   16    Saguaro   0,43   17    Chestnut   0,43   17    Cacao   0,43   17    Rubber   0,49   20    Highwood   0,5   20    Tunnel Tube   0,5   20    Pine   0,51   20    Mango   0,52   21    Maple   0,54   22    Nether-cap   0,55   22    Cedar   0,57   23    Larch   0,59   24    Ash (tree)   0,6   24    Acacia   0,6   24    Fungiwood   0,6   24    Goblin-cap   0,6   24    Mahogany   0,6   24    Spore   0,6   24    Tower-cap   0,6   24    Birch   0,65   26    Black-Cap   0,65   26    Palm   0,68   27    Oak   0,7   28    Mangrove   0,83   33    Glumprong   1,2   48    Blood thorn   1,25   50   x Adamantine   0,2   8    Aluminum   2,7   108   x Zinc   7,13   285   x Tin   7,28   291    Fine pewter   7,28   291    Lay pewter   7,28   291    Trifle pewter   7,28   291    Iron   7,85   314   x Pig iron   7,85   314    Steel   7,85   314    Bismuth bronze   8,25   330    Bronze   8,25   330    Brass   8,55   342    Electrum   8,65   346    Nickel silver   8,65   346    Nickel   8,8   352   x Copper   8,93   357    Billon   8,93   357    Black bronze   8,93   357    Bismuth   9,78   391    Silver   10,49   420   x Sterling silver   10,49   420    Lead   11,34   454   x Gold   19,32   773   x Rose gold   19,32   773    Platinum   21,4   856   x

x=first trigger in range

EDIT: corrected the wood densities.

[Waparius]

Another idea might be to have an option to key pressure plates to some kind of trigger you could add to specific minecarts, or alternately to add something to a cart that trips adjacent levers when it passes them by (perhaps costing a small amount of momentum).

[fricy]

Yeah, it would be great if we could add a trigger to minecarts that don't depend on weight: it's possible to select empty minecarts, but not loaded ones as their weight will always depend on the contents. Water and magma loads have a fixed size, so you can target those, but only those.

But these changes should be included in the trap upgrade arc, my only wish now is one minor change that gives the current system more flexibility.

[Larix]

Only tangentially related to the topic (i think it's a good idea) - the list of cart weights is erroneous, because you put the comma/decimal point wrong for wood. All their densities are listed as ten times what they actually are. Should have been easy to spot really, because water has a density of one and most types of wood swim in water, i.e. their densities are lower. A blood thorn cart should actually weigh 50 units, not 500.

More importantly, all wooden carts are _much_ lighter than any metal cart (apart from adamantine), and they're so light that pressure plate sensitivity is practically useless for separating carts made of different wood types.

[fricy]

Thx Larix for spotting that mistake.
This means that the situation is even worse: only max. 10 triggers, I'm not sure where Bloodthorn belongs with the weight of 50. If it falls into the 0-50 range, and not the 50-100 then it's  only 9.