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In the course of building an above-ground shotgun, I have run into a problem with carts refusing to follow tracks downwards.
The situation is as thus:
___VO     Key:
   OVO     _:Track
    OVO    O:Wall (With track on top)
     OVO   V:Down Ramp
      OVO
The contents of the cart always ends up falling onto the 2nd lowest V.

Can anyone help work out how to keep the cart from derailing.

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Cut down all the trees. (I think you might have to floor over the embark too, to be safe, but that may have been fixed.)

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