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ah! but wagons can fly, anydwarf knows that.

or did it really move as a creature at the site itself to get to land?
I didn't think the owned wagon could move.
And your dwarves must have had some swimming skills.

I was wondering about "dwarfpower"...

I know for a fact that screwpumps transmit power,
secondly I know dwarves can actively work them by hand.
Does this mean pumps can be used as a temporary stand-in for an eventual treadwheel that might be implemented in the future mechanisms arc? (read as suggestion!)
I suspect though that a dwarf inputs just enough power to work the pump, leaving no excess to be employed elsewhere by transmission, no matter how undwarvenly strong he/she may be.

I'm particularly loooking forward to the inverse way coasts are handled (water cutting INTO neighbouring tiles instead of land encroaching upon seatiles) It should make some sort of lowland/landreclaiming scenario possible.

I just got a nice artifact from a possesed fisherman, it has bands, spikes and images of other useless artifact created earlier. It was produced during the largest goblin siege so far (2 squads of spearmen, one archers all lead by crosbow elites and a squad of trolls) (turned out I was intimidated for nothing) and the arrival of the nobility (yay we are a barony with lots of copper coins).

Oh yeah artifact:
Rashtinthad Recus Volal "Diedtheater the thirst of whiteness" a goblin bone door.
275 wth, 81600monies.
ACIOTHQ, encircled with bands of elephant bone, Demantoid and Palm.
menaces with spikes of goblinbone. on the item is an image of skull totems in copper and an image of a steel amulet in Demantoid.

the amulet "Limnanges" incidentally has a image of my legendary pigtail bag on it.

I feel the ewly arived hammerer will like this door alot.

(asidenote: my fortress suffers from a multitude of useless artifacts. a copper table (nice) a towercap cup, obsidian weaponrack, copper platemail (yay!), palm puzzlebox, pigtail bag, willow amulet, right iron gaundlet, steel amulet, goblinbone door)

Have thought about this sort of mechanism too. 

I disagree with Deragon on the recoil issue, I can see these kind of mecanisms well suited for huge moving fortress bulkheads/doors. that kind of use requires a two-state object, like bridges (Up/Down, extended/retracted)

Moving stuff with them would be great, esp. fluids.

as for crushing: I'd say: if it can be moved and something blocks it, it is smashed against it, if it survives it is not crushed and the ramrod halted...
but only for one step, next step the rod tries again and again and again untill the thing is dead moved away or destroyed. (or the obstruction is destroyed)
 

My thought is:

"Probably has no military barracks either"

My military dwarves tend to be the most sociable of the bunch as they are continually smelling each others' hairy armpits and breaking noses.

A 'windaria' type city.

built under sea-level and dependent on sluicegates and windmills.
an aquifier is a must, but have a good supply of stone for the sea-fortifications and buildings.

a farming community somewhere inland under a huge tree on a hill.