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[Rendking]

if bronze metal statutes can come to life and kill you then we can make carts come to life without scuttling and live a " normal and peaceful life*"

* average wagon life may very.

[AWellTrainedFerret]

So, if the problem of moving can be solved, could we then implement code from minecarts to allow Dorfs to ride the wagons? Those silly goblins can have their Olm war mounts. I envision something much greater. Much more epic. Something...Dwarfish.
I can see great sentient, Armored Wagons ridden by Dorfs wielding crossbows and spears traveling in formation.
And behind them, Giant Wagons mounting ballista pulled by Tame Wagons.
And at the front of the legion, are the dreaded Shocktropper Wagons; terrible beasts that are brutally raised in the classic Dorf childcare pits full of upright spear traps and wild dogs to be merciless killing machines.

[TD1]

So, if the problem of moving can be solved, could we then implement code from minecarts to allow Dorfs to ride the wagons? Those silly goblins can have their Olm War mounts. I envision something much greater. Much more epic. Something...Dwarfish.
I can see great sentient, Armored Wagons ridden by Dorfs wielding crossbows and spears traveling in formation.
And behind them, Giant Wagons mounting ballista pulled by Tame Wagons.
And at the front of the legion, are the dreaded Shocktropper Wagons; terrible beasts that are brutally raised in the classic Dorf childcare pits full of upright spear traps and wild dogs to be merciless killing machines.

Envision. Pah!

I have a dream.
A dream in which little white wagons,
And little brown wagons,
Can link mahogany and larch wheels,
In a Wagonhood of peace.
I have a dream, y'all,
That these here wagons,
Sufferin' under slavery,
Dragged by pack animals to
The far corners of the world,
Can finally, fiiiiinally, be free

[AWellTrainedFerret]

Sounds like Elf talk to me. If it cannot be weaponized, my Dorfs have no use for it.

[4maskwolf]

I am now going to make a dwarven wagonmancer caste who can turn all non-dwarves into wagons.

Don't keep pets.

[TD1]

Sounds like Elf talk to me. If it cannot be weaponized, my Dorfs have no use for it.

By that logic, Dorfs have no need for their beards. Go tell one to shave. I dare you.

[Lolfail0009]

Sounds like Elf talk to me. If it cannot be weaponized, my Dorfs have no use for it.

By that logic, Dorfs have no need for their beards. Go tell one to shave. I dare you.

A dwarf's beard is a mighty SHIELD!
And what do we do with shields..?


SHIELDBASHSHIELDBASHSHIELDBASHSHIELDBASH

[BlackFlyme]

Sounds like Elf talk to me. If it cannot be weaponized, my Dorfs have no use for it.

By that logic, Dorfs have no need for their beards. Go tell one to shave. I dare you.

Heresy. Beards can easily be weaponized.

You have clearly never set one on fire.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Envision. Pah!
I have a dream.
-snip-
Can finally, fiiiiinally, be free

Sounds like Elf talk to me. If it cannot be weaponized, my Dorfs have no use for it.

Like I pointed out earlier, Stray Wagons can easily be weaponized for extreme dorfness. You have to use DFhack, but you already need it for modifying the wagon code, so just duplicate the code for aquifers, change the liquid produced to magma, rename that snip of code magma_aquifer and then add that code onto wagons.

Or just set up a breeding room and a retracting bridge to drop wagons from several Z-levels and watch them crash onto your invaders.

[CHR1SZ]

Just found out how much fun one can have with violent ghosts when reclaiming a fort. Am now imagining how much worse it would be to have ghostly wagons trundling around running dwarves over.

[Dwarf4Explosives]

Just found out how much fun one can have with violent ghosts when reclaiming a fort. Am now imagining how much worse it would be to have ghostly wagons trundling around running dwarves over.

I believe I have found myself another sig. Do you mind?

[Kolnukbyne]

I want to see a dramatic story of a group of seven dwarves sent to reclaim a fort only to find a desolate waste haunted by the ghosts of long-passed wagons.

[Twysted_Tide]

As it stands currently, wouldn't ghost wagons just be scuttled shortly after appearing? That leaves me with other questions as well.
Like, is the wood from ghost wagons different from regular wagons?
If scuttled ghost wagons come back as ghosts themselves (ghost ghosts?), would that not cause a ghost wood and ghost wagonsplosion?
And then, of course, is the wood from ghost ghost wagons any different from ghost wagons? (and so on)

[AWellTrainedFerret]

As it stands currently, wouldn't ghost wagons just be scuttled shortly after appearing? That leaves me with other questions as well.
Like, is the wood from ghost wagons different from regular wagons?
If scuttled ghost wagons come back as ghosts themselves (ghost ghosts?), would that not cause a ghost wood and ghost wagonsplosion?
And then, of course, is the wood from ghost ghost wagons any different from ghost wagons? (and so on)

SCIENCE must be done. digging out and flooding an underground tree farm could be a thing of the past.

[Kolnukbyne]

In the future of Dwarf Fortress all fortresses will be built from the ethereal essence of scuttled wagons.