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[RCIX]

But what happened to the community liking realistic stuff?

[Patchouli]

But what happened to the community liking realistic stuff?

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I don't think a cart is too unrealistic...

[RCIX]

But it's more realistic to have mine carts on rails. It's also possible to do it so that it's useful and not too much of a pain.

[NW_Kohaku]

Hmm... I would honestly prefer something more like a conveyor belt, myself.

Rails are designated and constructed, and basically have a single, set pattern (albiet changable with levers and pressure plates, so we can get technical with it), and have points where they will accept materials, and points where they will then drop those materials off.  They can move faster than regular dwaves, but more importantly, they would have the advantage of not needing to pathfind, since they have a single set path, and be capable of carrying a much larger set of items at once.

Such a system would let you replace some of your typical haulers by simply carting the wood directly to the furnaces, or at least directly to the stockpile right next to the furnaces.

[Patchouli]

But it's more realistic to have mine carts on rails. It's also possible to do it so that it's useful and not too much of a pain.

I'm sort of confused.

A hand-pulled cart is just as real as a railed mine cart.

It would be pretty neat if carts got a speed boost from being on paved roads.

[RCIX]

But that's not a mine cart then...

[G-Flex]

Yeah, and similar things (such as wheelbarrows) are already planned, so it's a bit redundant.

I think there's a place for both minecarts and wheelbarrows/hand-carts/pull-carts, at any rate.