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Another one of these threads? Someone needs to dig up and sticky that FAQ already...

OK, first thing to note- I had been assuming we would need to make tracks of minimum length 2, but by creatively cancelling jobs, you can make 1 tile tracks (eg for corners) easily enough.

In other news, I haven't got as far as weaponising minecarts yet, but I have pancaked a disposable peasant while testing the possibilities of replacing stonefall traps with the-entire-fortress-stockpile-fall traps.

Next up- how much damage does a falling corpse do?

If you now have flight physics and collisions for items launched from minecarts, does that apply to other circumstances too? eg will dropping an anvil on someone work now? IIRC you had previously said that aiming difficulties were delaying flight physics for siege engines and projectiles so I'm guessing that much hasn't changed.

Edit: Nevermind, I'll check myself 8-) ...

The ({iron anvil}) strikes The Miner in the lower left leg, bruising the muscle through the (gray langur leather robe)!

Based on a few assumptions/extrapolations from Toady's words on the matter:
Carts will happily drive off a dead end onto further track "if a track deadends into a corner without actually forming a T, it'll allow the cart to pass into the corner without disruption"
Carts will drive onto and off of bridges in the same fashion (assumption)
Carts on bridges will ignore underlying terrain and go straight ahead (assumption)
Tracks must be laid/carved in lengths of at least 2 to give them their direction (guess based on "you have to do them in 1-wide/high rectangular sections to get the connections established between tiles")

I present the pinwheel junction:

Carts will (if my assumptions hold) be sent from any incoming track down the paths corresponding to any extended bridges. If multiple bridges are extended, they turn right till they find the first extended bridge.

the only way I know to fix it involves reading from a different list of items which would be hell slow.

By 'different list of items' are we talking trawling through the all-the-items-anywhere vector again?

Will we be able to have 1-way stops? So could you have a stop that allowed carts coming from 1 direction to shoot through without being stopped or slowed, but carts from another to be stopped and need to be started again? (Potentially in a different direction?)

Assuming that I have the cart logic interpreted right, I think we can rig this up ourselves even if it isnt explicitly coded:
<<═══╗═≠≠≠═╗
     ╚═════╚═══>>
Cart from the west takes the south path, missing the stop, then joins back to the rail heading east
Cart from the east takes the north path, stopped at the ≠, sent on as appropriate

If it counts as an engraving, that may well work.  If it counts as a construction, it probably won't.

Seems like it should work:

You can place any building on top of a track (at least any building that would work on a stone/constructed floor).

The OP's terrarium isn't actually that bad- should have a decent price tag with that emerald. It's a cage, so build it in some room for an instant value boost. I'm pretty sure cages get "has admired <furniture>" happy thoughts, too...